20 Mar 2023

Latin America correspondent Katy Watson

From Nine To Noon, 9:50 am on 20 March 2023
A woman passes by the headquarters of Argentina's Central Bank in the financial district of Buenos Aires

Photo: AFP

For the first time since the days of hyperinflation in the 90s, Argentina's inflation rate has risen above 100%.

That means that since 2022, prices of consumer goods have more than doubled.

Former Brazil President, Jair Bolsonaro who is still in self-exile in the US, has been ordered to turn over more than 3 million dollars worth of jewellery that he reportedly received from Saudi Arabia as a gift while president.

And in Chile, there's a second attempt at drafting a new constitution. The current constitution dates back to the Pinochet dictatorship and changing it was one of the major demands from Chileans who took to the streets in 2019 in mass protests.

Katy Watson is a BBC correspondent based in Sao Paulo.

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