LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 16 April 2018

Development: On 14 April, 16 countries attending the Summit of the Americas (SOA) hosted by Peru signed a statement refusing to recognise the validity of the Venezuelan presidential election scheduled for 20 May.... Read More

Ecuador/Colombia: Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno said on 13 April that the Ecuadorean authorities have confirmed that the three journalists kidnapped by dissident members of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrillas in Ecuador’s northern border province of Esmeraldas have been murdered by their captors.... Read More

Fiscal policy in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is sub-optimal.... Read More

Brookings, the US-based economic and social think tank, in collaboration with the Uruguay-based Centro de Estudios de la Realidad Económica y Social (CERES), has just published a collection of essays focusing on the economic policy dilemmas facing the region, under the title ‘Spotlight Latin America’.... Read More

Predictions of global warming and extreme weather generate serious concern but often seem to be somewhere in the indeterminate future and, on top of that, difficult to quantify.... Read More

Peru has a new President: Martín Vizcarra, who was sworn in on 23 March after Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was forced to resign amid a storm of corruption allegations and congressional hostility.... Read More

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Ten years after the former President Hugo Chavez oversaw a currency revamp that saw three zeroes knocked off the existing bolivar, with the launch of a new “strong” bolivar (bolivar fuerte), current President Nicolas Maduro is doing the same thing.... Read More

More on-and-offshore acreage will be auctioned in the region this year than ever before, providing a possibly unique opportunity for international oil and gas companies to win exploration and production contracts in different parts of Latin America and the Caribbean.... Read More

Amazon in Brazil talks: Us online retailer Amazon.com was in late March reported to be involved in talks to acquire the Via Varejo retail chain in Brazil from the controlling group Casino Guichard Perrachon SA of France.... Read More