Brazil & Southern Cone - March 2024

The federal police (PF) of Brazil has launched investigations into an alleged criminal network within the national intelligence agency (Abin) that carried out illegal surveillance for the benefit of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023).... Read More

The deputy director of Brazil’s national intelligence agency (Abin), Alessandro Moretti, was dismissed on 30 January for allegedly having maintained contact with the agency’s former director Alexandre Ramagem (2019-2022), whose properties were raided five days earlier.... Read More

After just over a year in office, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has launched a major initiative to tap international financial resources so Brazil can protect the environment and transition to a low-carbon economy.... Read More

During his first year back in office, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva got a solid boost from the economy to help appease his political foes and finance his social welfare programmes.... Read More

There aren’t many countries where a president would gloat over annual inflation of 276%, but Argentina is one of them.... Read More

Argentina’s President Javier Milei, who had pledged during the election campaign to boost ties with Israel, travelled to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem from 6-8 February and met Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.... Read More

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) released a statement on 5 February describing the 2024 wildfire season in Chile as the deadliest on record.... Read More

When the finance chief of the world’s biggest economy parachutes in, you know there’s something big at stake.... Read More

Kattya González, a senator for Paraguay’s opposition centre-left Partido Encuentro Nacional (PEN), went on a hunger strike on 10 February.... Read More

URUGUAY| Moody’s upgrades credit rating, praises fiscal policy.... Read More