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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 22 March 2019

ECUADOR: Moreno withdraws from Unasur

Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno completed a profound foreign policy transformation last week by formally suspending his country’s membership of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) and seeking to recover the US$43.5m headquarters of the integration movement located in Ciudad Mitad del Mundo, north of Quito. Moreno made the announcement days before a summit on 22 March in Chile, which he will attend, to launch a re-envisioned regional bloc, known as Prosur.

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