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Brazil & Southern Cone - August 2022
Introduction
The August issue of the Latin American Regional Report: Brazil & Southern Cone begins by looking at the region as a whole. The first piece focuses on the travails of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), the trade bloc that groups Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The latter appears determined to push forward in its pursuit of free-trade agreements with third parties, notably China, in defiance of the trade bloc’s rules. Mercosur’s lack of cohesion was evident at the most recent meeting in July, which Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro did not attend in person and which failed to deliver a joint communiqué.
- Introduction
- Uruguay and Mercosur consider China trade options
- Brazil hosts regional meeting on transnational crime
- Threat of political violence hangs over election
- Dirty gold finds a place in smartphones
- New constitution unlikely to solve indigenous tensions
- The peso swoops and surges
- Markets underwhelmed by new economy minister
- Economic Highlights