Brazil and Southern Cone
Brazil & Southern Cone - September 2020
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- Introduction
Chile
- Renewed Mapuche conflict raises fresh concerns
Uruguay
- Changing the paradigm (but gradually)
Argentina
- Direction of post-debt rescheduling policy still unclear
- Large cash seizures puzzle authorities
Brazil
- Sending the army to the Amazon
- New intelligence body prompts questions
- Salvation by Selic?
- Delta helps Gol repay loan
Region
- MercadoLibre surges to number one
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
The September edition of the Latin American Report: Brazil & Southern Cone begins by looking at Chile, where the country has seen a rekindling of the long-running conflict between indigenous Mapuche and the state in the southern La Araucanía and Bío Bío regions.
Brazil & Southern Cone - August 2020
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- Introduction
Brazil
- Taking part in the vaccine race
- Could green jobs be the answer?
- Huawei decision still casting a shadow over relations with the US
Argentina
- Bond deal done, more restructuring required
- Spying scandals and corruption cases
Uruguay
- Lacalle Pou seeks to attract foreign residents
Chile
- Will they go for more?
Paraguay
- Illicit enrichment under scrutiny
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
The August edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Brazil & Southern Cone begins with a series of articles on Brazil.
Brazil & Southern Cone - July 2020
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- Introduction
Brazil
- The emergency income – an accidental success?
- The fires are burning again
- Police violence under scrutiny, but unchanged
- The war on ‘fake news’
Paraguay
- Lockdown difficulties across the border with Brazil
Uruguay
- Another security shock
Chile
- Concerns over drug trafficking
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic continues to assail Latin American countries.
Brazil & Southern Cone - June 2020
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- Introduction
Region
- Airlines try to fly out of trouble
Argentina
- Are we there yet?
Chile
- Copper: a manageable problem in 2020?
Argentina-Chile
- Prisoners cause political problems
Uruguay
- Reform bill sparks public security debate
Paraguay
- Corruption threatens coronavirus response
Brazil
- How has Covid-19 impacted crime?
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
The June edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Brazil & Southern Cone is published as the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic continues to grip Latin American countries, with the region now the epicentre of the pandemic and yet to reach the peak of the outbreak.
Brazil & Southern Cone - May 2020
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- Introduction
Region
- The challenges of a regional response on public health
- Argentina does a U-turn on Mercosur
Paraguay
- Down but not out
Uruguay
- Looking for long weekends
Brazil
- Who is in charge?
- Indigenous politics during the pandemic
- Top drug trafficker captured in Mozambique
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
This May edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Brazil & Southern Cone is published shortly after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared South America as a new global epicentre of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
Brazil & Southern Cone - April 2020
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- Introduction
Region
- Fiscal austerity out the window – for now
Brazil
- Prisons in times of a pandemic
- Behind the femicide figures
- Petrobras better placed to navigate the slump?
Argentina
- A dead cow, not a golden goose
- Fernández declares war on ‘lawfare’
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
This April issue of the Regional Report: Brazil & Southern Cone goes to press as the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has engulfed the whole region, monopolising the attention of governments as they seek to juggle a response to the public health emergency that the disease represents with the need to prop up domestic economies as they face a recession expected to be the region’s worst ever, according to the United Nations Economic Commission on Latin America & the Caribbean (Eclac).
Brazil & Southern Cone - March 2020
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- Introduction
Brazil
- Power, police and politics in paramilitaries
- The expansion of Pentecostalism: an economic matter?
- A green hole in Petrobras strategy?
Chile
- Under the cosh
- The social dimension of the ‘mega-drought’
Paraguay
- Authorities under pressure to protect the press
Uruguay
- Arbeleche’s balancing act
Argentina
- Pushing for change in the public security sphere
Region
- A busy year in energy-related M&A
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
The March issue of the Latin American Regional Report: Brazil & Southern Cone considers a number of economy, societal, and security-related issues which will have been on civil society and governments’ agenda before Latin America and the world began scrambling to respond to the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic – although the outbreak was already bringing some economic uncertainty.
Brazil & Southern Cone - February 2020
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- Introduction
Brazil
- Riding the dragon
- The Brazil-Mexico trade option
- The revised anti-crime package
- Police brutality in São Paulo
Brazil-Paraguay
- The PCC strikes again
Paraguay
- Fly me to Asunción
Argentina
- Beware the ides of March
- Wrestling with organised crime in Santa Fe
Chile
- Seeking ‘social peace’ through tougher security
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
Taking advantage of a slight lull in the social crises and political changes which have marked much of the Southern Cone recently, this February 2020 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Brazil & Southern Cone focuses heavily on Brazil, on its economy and public security situation.
Brazil & Southern Cone - January 2020
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- Introduction
Argentina
- Where to on security?
- Alberto Fernández gets off to a reasonably good start
- Can a dead cow save the country?
Uruguay
- IMF sends message to Lacalle Pou team
- A year of record cocaine seizures
Chile
- Broken retail faces adjustments
Brazil
- Indigenous violence on the rise
Paraguay
- Under pressure over corruption
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
The end of 2019 was tumultuous and eventful for much of the Southern Cone, particularly in Chile following months of social uprising, and Argentina and Uruguay, which both saw presidential elections, with a new government having already taken over in the former.