LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 04 May 2018

Development: On 3 May the president of Venezuela’s national electoral council (CNE), Tibisay Lucena, rejected the call issued by the European Parliament (EP) for the country to suspend the 20 May presidential election called by the government led by President Nicolás Maduro.... Read More

Colombia: In April 2018, Colombia exported 874,000 60kg sacks of coffee, a 5% increase compared with the same month in 2017, according to the national federation of Colombian coffee producers (FNC).... Read More

Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno showed his ruthless streak this week by jettisoning his interior and defence ministers.... Read More

Peru’s President Martín Vizcarra received a boost on 2 May when the opposition-controlled congress overwhelmingly backed the cabinet of his prime minister César Villanueva in a vote of confidence.... Read More

President Juan Manuel Santos insisted this week that it was not true to say that the peace process with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) “is failing”.... Read More

“A shield against the criminal economic war of the neoliberal oligarchy and the International Monetary Fund.” This is how Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro described a massive increase in the minimum wage and monthly food ticket which he decreed in time for International Labour Day on 1 May, and three weeks before presidential elections on 20 May.... Read More

BOLIVIA-PERU | Improving ties.... Read More