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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 23 November 2018
From LatinNews Daily
Development: On 22 November Venezuela’s attorney general, Tarek William Saab, reported that his office had opened a new investigation against the former national treasurer Alejandro Andrade (2007-2011) over the suspected irregular sale of sovereign bonds and that he will seek his extradition.... Read More
* Bolivia’s prosecutor general, Pablo Menacho Diederich, has said that the Bolivian state will only pay US$18m of the US$385m that South American Silver, the Canadian mining firm, is demanding in compensation for the cancellation of a mining concession.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
It is axiomatic to say that the Odebrecht corruption scandal has had profound ramifications for established political and judicial systems across Latin America.... Read More
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro delivered a eulogy for Alí Rodríguez Araque, an icon of the Bolivarian Revolution and oil czar, on 21 November in which he insisted that a “fair price” for a barrel of crude would be US$100 (the average price for the Venezuelan oil basket this year is US$61.74).... Read More
The picture has become clearer ahead of next year’s general elections.... Read More
COLOMBIA | Signs of economic recovery in third quarter.... Read More
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