LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 15 June 2018

Development: On 14 June various civil-society groups formally expressed their support for one of the two candidates taking part in Colombia's 17 June second-round presidential run-off election.... Read More

Venezuela: Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, who was re-elected on 20 May, has announced a ‘new start’ for his government with a shakeup of his ministerial cabinet.... Read More

Colombia’s two remaining presidential candidates have spent the closing days of the campaign ahead of the second round of elections on 17 June trying to drum up support among rival politicians in the hope of swaying the public to back their bids.... Read More

Peru’s President Martín Vizcarra may have hoped that his decision to replace his economy & finance minister over his unpopular move to increase excise tax rates [WR-18-21] would earn his government more public support and provide it with some breathing space.... Read More

“This is a very serious matter and the government is concerned because it is very grave to think that a former president was involved in something like this.” This was the response of the Ecuadorean government, led by President Lenín Moreno, to the request by the attorney general’s office to include former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017) in a high-profile kidnapping case dating back to 2012.... Read More

The president of Venezuela’s supreme court (TSJ), Maikel Moreno, said this week that magistrates were working on a series of reforms to the penal law that would allow politicians to be sentenced for the crimes of terrorism and treason.... Read More