Brazil & Southern Cone - January 2021

As we enter 2021, the countries of the Brazil & Southern Cone sub-region are, like much of the world, battling with a surge in coronavirus (Covid-19) infections, possibly linked to the emergence of more transmissible variants of the virus.... Read More

The Argentine government led by President Alberto Fernández completed the first of its four years in office on 10 December 2020.... Read More

On the penultimate day of 2020, Argentina became the largest Latin American country to legalise abortion.... Read More

The Brazilian economy is set to recover this year.... Read More

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In early November 2020, Brazil’s supreme court of justice (STJ) – the second-highest court in the country – was the target of a ransomware attack which forced the shutdown of its operations for several days.... Read More

Until recently, the conventional narrative has been that Uruguay is escaping the worst of the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis, and that the economy is all the better for it.... Read More

On 7 January Portugal’s Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva said his country would try and conclude the deadlocked free-trade agreement (FTA) between the European Union (EU) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) during its six-month rotating presidency of the EU, which runs until the end of June.... Read More

Although still suffering the knock-on effects of a long-running corruption scandal, Chilean lithium miner Sociedad Química y Minera (SQM) has signed a promising long-term sales agreement with LG Energy Solutions.... Read More

PARAGUAY | A good year for beef.... Read More