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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 14 June 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 13 June Colombia’s national chamber of deputies decisively voted against censuring Defence Minister Guillermo Botero.... Read More
* According to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), Venezuela’s oil production has declined to 741,000 barrels per day (bpd) in May, a decrease of 35,000 bpd from April.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
Such was the nefarious nature of the government run by César Álvarez Aguilar in Peru’s north-western region of Áncash (2007-2014) that the corruption for which he was convicted this week was a minor misdemeanour by comparison.... Read More
Consummating a sensitive political blow for the government led by President Iván Duque and his campaign to ensure that the 2016 peace deal signed with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) does not allow former guerrilla leaders to avoid just punishment, Seuxis Paucias Hernández Solarte (‘Jesús Santrich’) was formally sworn-in as a national deputy on 11 June.... Read More
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales shrugged off a march by opposition groups this week demanding free and fair general elections in October and took aim at 21 former Latin American presidents who called on the permanent council of the Organization of American States (OAS) to condemn his re-election bid as “a serious violation” of the Inter-American convention on human rights.... Read More
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