Brazil & Southern Cone - March 2025

This March edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Brazil & Southern Cone begins by looking at the efforts of the government of Argentina to tackle transnational crime around the country’s northern borders.... Read More

Security Minister Patricia Bullrich has been ramping up her rhetoric calling for greater efforts to tackle transnational crime around Argentina’s borders, highlighting government plans to shore up border security.... Read More

With the possible exception of former president Carlos Menem (1989-1999), no Argentine leader has had a closer relationship with Washington than the country’s current head of state, Javier Milei.... Read More

During a visit to El Bolsón on 11 February, a town in the southern province of Río Negro, Argentina’s Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, alongside Defence Minister Luis Petri, announced that the government will create a federal emergency agency to combat the intense wildfires raging through various Patagonian provinces such as Río Negro, Chubut, and Neuquén.... Read More

Judging by Yamandú Orsi’s first week in office as Uruguay’s new president, he is well under way to meeting at least one of his campaign promises, that of not rocking the boat and pursuing “safe change”.... Read More

In recent years Chile’s all-important copper industry seemed to have lost steam, while all the attention was on the promising lithium potential in the Andes [EB-24-07].... Read More

Justice Minister Jaime Gajardo Falcón and a Chilean delegation of government officials travelled to Brazil on 30 January and to Colombia on 3 February to discuss prison policies.... Read More

If all goes as expected, Brazil may only have two major airlines by early next year.... Read More

The national rate of violent deaths – taking into account deaths registered as intentional murders, femicides, robberies resulting in death, and physical injuries resulting in death – has fallen every year since 2021 in Brazil.... Read More

Latin America’s largest company is not one of the big Brazilian names like Petrobras or Itaú Unibanco, nor Mexico’s América Móvil.... Read More

BRAZIL | Vale invests in Amazon-based operations.... Read More