End of preview - This article contains approximately 829 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Andean Group - July 2014 (ISSN 1741-4466)
POLITICS: Divided we fall – the opposition goes nowhere fast
On 9 July a Caracas court ordered that the sacked opposition mayor of the western border town of San Cristóbal, Daniel Ceballos, face trial on charges of rebellion and conspiracy for his role during the mass anti-government protests that erupted in Venezuela in February. Meanwhile Leopoldo López, the leader of the radical opposition party Voluntad Popular which is accused by the government of stoking the violent protests as part of efforts to force the resignation (‘La Salida’) of President Nicolás Maduro, has been held in solitary confinement in the Ramo Verde military prison outside Caracas since mid-February and is due to face trial, potentially in August, on charges of conspiracy, the incitement of crime, arson and property damage.
- First stirrings of internal dissent for Ecuador’s Correa
- POLITICS: New congress poised to discuss peace
- SECURITY: ELN steps up violence campaign following end of electoral ceasefire
- POLITICS & ELECTIONS: Campaigns kick off
- POLITICS: Renewed police unrest
- POLITICS & EDUCATION: Approval of controversial ‘university law’ puts Humala under renewed pressure
- ECONOMIC OVERVIEW
- POLITICS: PSUV’s chosen ones to crown Maduro, ignoring rumblings
- ECONOMY: The adjustment continues
- POLITICS: Divided we fall – the opposition goes nowhere fast
- Steps forward for LGBTI rights in the Andean