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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 18 May 2020
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On 15 May, Nelson Teich resigned as Brazil’s health minister, after less than a month in the post.... Read More
* Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has released the latest figures for the economic activity index (IBC-Br), used as a preview of GDP growth, according to which economic activity in the country contracted by 1.95% in the first three months of 2020, compared with the previous quarter.... Read More
On 15 May, the Argentine government led by President Alberto Fernández confirmed it had received proposals for the restructuring of the country’s foreign debt from three separate groups of bondholders.... Read More
* Uruguay’s President Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou has said that reducing the country’s fiscal deficit is no longer his government’s top priority and has been relegated to a secondary objective amid the economic crisis produced by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
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