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Brazil & Southern Cone - April 2021

Introduction
Arguably, one of Brazil’s most significant achievements of the past decade was the investigation and prosecution of corruption on a large scale amongst the country’s political and business elites through the ‘Lava Jato’ (Car Wash) anti-corruption probe.... Read More
Brazil
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has taken the unprecedented step of setting up a permanent monitoring group to keep an eye on corruption in Brazil, a move which illustrates international concern with setbacks to anti-corruption efforts in the South American giant.... Read More
The Brazilian economy contracted by 4.1% last year, one of the better results in a continent ravaged by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
Uruguay
AF, a Uruguayan company which administers forestry assets, said on 16 March that it had sold carbon bonds totalling 210,000 tonnes (t) of CO2 to two European-based buyers.... Read More
Argentina-Paraguay
The Brazilian Amazon tends to garner most of the attention where deforestation and environmental destruction are concerned.... Read More
Argentina
Argentina was one of the 12 Western Hemisphere countries that signed the declaration establishing the Lima Group in August 2017, a regional effort to help resolve the political deadlock and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.... Read More
The government led by President Alberto Fernández has delayed a rescheduling of Argentina’s US$44bn debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) until after the October congressional elections.... Read More
Region
The four members of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay – marked the thirtieth anniversary of the regional trade bloc with an argument over whether, and how, they should flexibilise trade agreements with other countries.           ... Read More
Chile
Pensions are likely to be at the centre of the Chilean political debate for the rest of this year.... Read More
Highlights
PARAGUAY | Infrastructure project postponed for pandemic funds.... Read More

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