LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 27 July 2018

Development: On 26 July, Colombia’s outgoing president, Juan Manuel Santos, announced that the peace negotiations between his government and the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) leftist insurgent guerrillas being held in Havana, Cuba, were close to reaching an agreement on a bilateral ceasefire.... Read More

Peru: The Federación de la Nacionalidad Acuar del Perú (Fenap) indigenous organisation has announced its opposition to an oil exploration project granted to Chilean energy firm GeoPark in the ‘Lote 64’, an area which encompasses an important part of the ancestral lands of the Achuar peoples located near the basin of the Pastaza river in the Peru’s Amazonian area.... Read More

The crisis in Peru’s judiciary has continued, with congress dismissing members of the national magistrates council (Concejo Nacional de la Magistratura, CNM) implicated in the corruption scandal triggered by the release of incriminating audio tapes.... Read More

In an unexpected move influential hard-right former president Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010) announced on 24 July that he was resigning from his senate seat so as to face a widened set of charges brought against him by the supreme court, which now include accusations of bribery.... Read More

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The Pacific Alliance countries (Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Mexico) held a summit meeting on 23 and 24 July in Puerto Vallarta in Mexico, to which the leaders of the Mercosur bloc (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) were invited.... Read More