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Brazil & Southern Cone - March 2021
Introduction
This March edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Brazil & Southern Cone is published as the sub-region is facing the worst of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic yet, even as vaccination has begun to get underway – albeit very slowly, for most countries.... Read More
Chile
Chile’s economy is still struggling.... Read More
Chilean authorities oversaw the largest single expulsion of undocumented migrants in the country on 10 February, deporting 86 Venezuelans and Colombians by air and 52 Peruvians and Bolivians by land from the city of Iquique in the northern Tarapacá Region, which borders Bolivia.... Read More
Brazil
Under the leadership of Roberto Castello Branco, oil firm Petrobras, Brazil’s largest state-controlled company, seemed to be doing its homework: debts were down and profits were up.... Read More
President Jair Bolsonaro’s support for easier and wider gun ownership is one of the issues on which he has remained exceptionally constant throughout his time in office.... Read More
Uruguay
Uruguay is one of the only countries in Latin America that has managed to come through the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic without imposing obligatory lockdowns.... Read More
Argentina
Suddenly, it seems, everyone is interested in the Paraná-Paraguay Hidrovía, or river transport waterway.... Read More
Paraguay
A deadly prison riot in Paraguay has revived discussions over the problems that the country’s overcrowded prisons face, putting pressure on the government to step-up its promised reforms to the penitentiary system.... Read More
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