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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 20 May 2020
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On 19 May, NGO Amnesty International (AI) Brasil, along with human rights organisation Justiça Global and community-based activist group Coletivo Papo Reto, issued a statement demanding explanations from the Brazilian authorities for the deadly police operations being carried out in the context of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. ... Read More
* More than 40 international companies from primarily the food and retail industries have addressed an open letter to the Brazilian congress, expressing opposition to a bill on the regularisation of titles of privately occupied public land, due to be voted upon today (20 May).... Read More
On 19 May, the heads of state from the member and observer countries of the Foro para el Progreso de América del Sur (Prosur) regional organisation held a videoconference, chaired by Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera, to discuss joint strategies regarding the reopening of their economies in the wake of the quarantine measures adopted to contain the coronavirus (Covid-19).... Read More
* The Argentine government has issued a decree setting the price of a locally produced barrel of crude oil at US$45, higher than US$35 per barrel that the main international crude benchmark, Brent, was trading at yesterday.... Read More
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