Brazil & Southern Cone - November 2024

This November edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Brazil & Southern Cone begins with an analysis of the influence of organised crime over local politics in Brazil, especially in the run-up to the country’s municipal elections this year.... Read More

Ahead of the first round of Brazil’s municipal elections on 6 October, the president of the superior electoral court (TSE), Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha, warned that criminal organisations were trying to “shape our laws”.... Read More

The administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil has launched a regulatory crackdown on online betting sites, including some that sponsor the country’s most famous football clubs.... Read More

Nearly halfway through President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s four-year term, Brazil’s economy is humming along at a better-than-expected 3% pace and unemployment is at its lowest level in about a decade.... Read More

President Javier Milei may be facing noisy discontent from protesters at home, but judging by the price that Argentine bonds command on global financial markets investors believe his shock therapy is working.... Read More

Chile’s President Gabriel Boric in October presented a long-awaited legislative proposal that grants a partial write-off on student loans and introduces a new public system of financing higher education.... Read More

General Ricardo Yáñez stepped down as director general of the Carabineros militarised police force on 27 September due to allegations of human rights abuses committed during the social unrest in 2019-2020 known as the ‘Estallido Social’.... Read More

Paraguay’s congress has approved a controversial bill which some local media outlets have dubbed the ‘ley anti-ONG’ (‘anti-NGO law’).... Read More

PARAGUAY | New universal pensions law.... Read More