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Brazil & Southern Cone - November 2021

INTRODUCTION
This November edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Brazil & Southern Cone was written as two of the sub-region’s countries were preparing for elections: Argentina held congressional mid-terms on 14 November, and the first round of presidential elections are due in Chile on 21 November.... Read More
Argentina
Ahead of congressional elections due on 14 November, shortly after this issue went to press, Argentina’s economic policy was in a state of drift, amid contradictory signals on negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a new price freeze, and growing fears of renewed speculative attacks on the Argentine peso.... Read More
Brazil
Latin America’s national oil companies (known as NOCs) are often criticised, particularly when they lose money.... Read More
In April this year a parliamentary commission of inquiry (CPI) was set up in the Brazilian senate to investigate the government led by President Jair Bolsonaro’s response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
Chile
There are seven presidential candidates competing in Chile’s first-round ballot due on 21 November, with the election likely to go to a second-round run-off vote on 19 December.... Read More
A flare-up in anti-migrant sentiment and xenophobic behaviour in the north of Chile has prompted a slew of criticism from human rights organisations.... Read More
Paraguay
Hundreds of indigenous people from across Paraguay congregated in the capital, Asunción, on 12 October to defend their rights and protest a newly sanctioned law which increases the punishments for occupying private land.... Read More
Uruguay
“Today we are violating human rights inside prisons,” Uruguay’s interior minister, Luis Alberto Heber, admitted during a congressional hearing on 28 September.... Read More
Economic Highlights
BRAZIL | Economic outlook dims.... Read More

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