LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 11 July 2019

On 10 July, a representative from Odebrecht, the Brazilian engineering firm, held a meeting with Ecuadorean judicial authorities in which they discussed the payment of compensation for the economic damage caused by the bribes the firm paid for securing state contracts.... Read More

* Some 200 national police (PNP) officers have arrived as backup in the town of Arequipa (the capital of the eponymous region) in response to protests after Peru’s energy & mining ministry (Minem) granted Southern Perú Copper Corporation (SPCC), a subsidiary of Grupo México, the licenses necessary to carry out more construction and expansion on its Tía María mining project, a copper oxide processing development.... Read More