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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 21 September 2018

BOLIVIA-REGION: Embattled Unasur gets shiny new headquarters

Bolivia’s President Evo Morales inaugurated a state-of-the-art new headquarters for the parliament of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) on the outskirts of the central city of Cochabamba on 12 September. The only trouble is there are no legislators to sit in the building. Unasur’s 12 member nations determined in 2008 that representatives would be elected to a body emulating the European parliament but they could not agree on its precise constitution and this grand vision now looks like a will-o’-the-wisp. Six member states suspended their participation in Unasur indefinitely in April this year, and in late August Colombia’s President Iván Duque announced his country’s definitive withdrawal from the integration bloc within six months for not just failing to hold the Venezuelan government led by President Nicolás Maduro to account but also its “silence and complicity”.

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