Brazil & Southern Cone - August 2022

The August issue of the Latin American Regional Report: Brazil & Southern Cone begins by looking at the region as a whole.... Read More

When, how, and whether to negotiate a free trade agreement (FTA) with China is emerging as an important issue for the four-country Southern Common Market (Mercosur) trade bloc – formed by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.... Read More

Government representatives in charge of public security from a handful of South American countries gathered in Brazil in June to discuss regional collaboration in the fight against transnational crime.... Read More

Brazil’s 2022 election campaign has not even formally kicked off yet, but incidences of – sometimes lethal – political violence have already sent shockwaves through the country.... Read More

There is a good chance that anyone who owns communication devices made by Apple or uses IT software and services provided by tech giants Amazon, Microsoft, or Alphabet (parent company of Google) is to some extent relying on small quantities of illegal gold mined in the Brazilian Amazon.... Read More

Some two and a half years after Chile’s political leaders reached an agreement to launch a constituent process in response to widespread protests against social inequality, a constituent convention elected last year presented the draft of the new magna carta to President Gabriel Boric on 4 July.... Read More

July was an odd month in the life of the Chilean peso.... Read More

Sergio Massa, a political heavyweight, and leader of one of the three main factions in the ruling centre-left coalition of President Alberto Fernández, was appointed ‘super minister’ of the economy on 28 July.... Read More

BRAZIL | Figures highlight shrinking industrial sector.... Read More