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Uruguay
President José Mujica met with Chinese leaders in Beijing in May to address the possibility of greater economic and political integration between the two countries. Mujica...
2013-05-30Paraguay
Newly-elected President Horacio Cartes, of the Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado (ANR-PC) met with former President Fernando Lugo in May. Lugo, a member of...
2013-05-30Chile
POLITICAL RISK - Student Protests Resume At Piñera's Speech Tens of thousands of student activists held protests on May 26 in Valparaíso, the site of outgoing...
2013-05-30Argentina
Opposition party members, magistrates, and other organizations have filed a series of legal challenges to a recently enacted judicial reform bill that subjects the Council of Magistrates...
2013-05-30Paraguay
Paraguayan Finance Minister Manual Ferreira has asked the IMF to examine whether or not the country has paid a US$10bn historic debt to Brazil for the construction of the Itaipú...
2013-05-03Uruguay
POLITICAL RISK - Uruguayan Congress Legalises Gay Marriage Uruguay's congress voted in mid-April to legalise same-sex marriage, with both the lower and upper houses approving the legislation...
2013-05-03Argentina
The dissident faction of the Partido Justicialista (PJ, Peronists) launched their campaign on May 1 with a stinging rebuke of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and...
2013-05-03Chile
POLITICAL RISK - Leading Centre-Right Candidate Drops Out Of Presidential Race Laurence Golborne, a former minister of mining, and the leading candidate to be the centre-right Coalición...
2013-05-02
