Brazil & Southern Cone - January 2024

Voters in Chile rejected a draft for a new constitution in December, which was drawn up by a constitutional council dominated by right-wing parties.... Read More

In September 2022, Chileans rejected a draft for a new constitution, which was considered too left-wing.... Read More

After a year in which little more could have gone wrong for Chile’s President Gabriel Boric, there may be some light at the end of the tunnel in 2024.... Read More

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ended his first year in office with some economic fireworks.... Read More

On 6 December Brazil’s lower house approved legislation which further criminalises gender violence.... Read More

The economic measures announced by Argentina’s President Javier Milei didn’t come as a shock only because he had already laid out many of them before taking office on 10 December.... Read More

Anti-gang units from Paraguayan and Brazilian security forces have been investigating an arms trafficking ring, raiding properties and arresting individuals in both countries on 5 December.... Read More

In mid-November Uruguay’s main trade union organisation Plenario Intersindical de Trabajadores-Convención Nacional de Trabajadores (PIT-CNT) staged anti-government protests over the issue of corruption.... Read More

URUGUAY | Year ends on report of Q3 contraction.... Read More