Brazil & Southern Cone - June 2020

The June edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Brazil & Southern Cone is published as the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic continues to grip Latin American countries, with the region now the epicentre of the pandemic and yet to reach the peak of the outbreak.... Read More

The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, and resultant quarantine measures and travel bans, has hit Latin America’s airlines particularly hard.... Read More

After missing an overdue interest payment of US$503m on foreign debt on 22 May, Argentina formally fell into its ninth default.... Read More

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The conundrum of how to manage the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak in prisons is one of the many challenges that the pandemic has brought governments worldwide.... Read More

Uruguay’s President Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou delivered on a campaign promise on 23 April when he presented a wide-ranging reform bill containing more than 500 articles to congress.... Read More

Paraguay appears to have been largely successful in its containment of the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.... Read More

One of the reasons given by President Jair Bolsonaro to justify his opposition to isolation measures taken by local authorities in Brazil to limit the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19) is that these would lead to an increase in crime.... Read More

BRAZIL| First international bond issuance of 2020.... Read More