Brazil & Southern Cone - April 2024

Amid concerns over escalating violence in the port city of Rosario, Sante Fe province, Argentina’s right-wing government led by President Javier Milei convened a crisis committee to oversee the deployment of federal security forces, among other measures.... Read More

Amid escalating violence in the port city of Rosario, Santa Fe province, Argentina’s right-wing government led by President Javier Milei convened a crisis committee on 8 March co-chaired by the national security minister, Patricia Bullrich, and the governor of Sante Fe, Maximiliano Pullaro.... Read More

President Javier Milei’s bid to fix Latin America’s third-largest economy is a race to see if his shock therapy can produce results before Argentinians run out of patience.... Read More

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was so upset when his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023) privatised state-owned companies such as electricity firm Eletrobras and fuel distributor BR Distribuidora, that he threatened to undo the sales if he ever made it back to power.... Read More

Brazil’s federal health ministry reported on 18 March that national dengue cases in 2024 have surpassed the total cases registered for the whole of 2023, hitting an annual record of 1.89m cases.... Read More

The president of Brazil’s superior electoral court (TSE), Alexandre de Moraes, has often spoken of the risks posed to democracy by disinformation generated using artificial intelligence (AI).... Read More

If there had been any hope left at all for a trade accord between the European Union (EU) and South America’s Mercosur bloc (comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Bolivia), the recent statements by French President Emmanuel Macron seem to have buried that idea for good.... Read More

Representatives from business associations were among those to take to the streets on 4 March in Ciudad del Este (CDE), the capital of Alto Paraná department and Paraguay’s main commercial hub along the triple border with Brazil and Argentina, calling on national law enforcement and judicial authorities to address robberies, assaults, and violence.... Read More

ARGENTINA| HSBC to sell its banking operations.... Read More