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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 31 May 2018
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Development: On 30 May, national legislators from Colombia’s centrist Partido Liberal (PL) party announced their decision to back the bid of Iván Duque, the presidential candidate of the right-wing opposition Centro Democrático (CD) party, in the second round of the presidential election scheduled for 17 June.... Read More
Venezuela: Canada’s Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland has announced that the Canadian government will be imposing new economic sanctions on 14 officials in the Venezuelan government led by President Nicolás Maduro.... Read More
From Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group
More than a year after the El Niño costero environmental phenomenon caused severe flooding across northern Peru, irrigation systems remain damaged, major roads await repair, and those made homeless have yet to be placed in permanent accommodation.... Read More
More than a year after the El Niño costero environmental phenomenon caused severe flooding across northern Peru, irrigation systems remain damaged, major roads await repair, and those made homeless have yet to be placed in permanent accommodation.... Read More
Pope Francis’ tour of Chile and Peru in January 2018 shone an unwanted spotlight on child abuse allegations levelled against the Catholic Church.... Read More
In his ongoing rhetorical feud with Chile (which stems from Bolivia’s historic claim of access to the Pacific Ocean, lost in the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific), Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has declared that Bolivia’s neighbour “lives off contraband” – and does so in order to damage his country’s economy.... Read More
On 24 November 2016, the final peace accord was signed between the Colombian government and the guerrilla Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo (Farc).... Read More
The ultimatum delivered to the Venezuelan government by the Lima group of regional countries, to suspend the 20 May presidential election, on pain of yet-to-be-detailed punitive actions, was blithely ignored by Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro.... Read More
ECUADOR | Trade surplus.... Read More
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- Colombia’s PC and PL back Duque for president
- In brief: Venezuela
- Introduction
- Northern Peru grows impatient with delayed reconstruction efforts
- Peruvians clamour for justice over Sodalitium scandal
- Morales declares war on contraband
- The participation of women in the Colombian peace process
- The beginning of the end?
- Economic Highlights