LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 05 August 2019

On 3 August, General José Luis Palomino, police chief of the Colombian border city of Cúcuta, announced that his team was investigating if the Venezuelan national guard (GNB) had crossed the border into the Colombian department of Norte de Santander the previous afternoon.... Read More

* The Colombian and United Kingdom governments have agreed a Col$2bn (US$591,000) pilot project to combat illegal actions that contribute to the loss of forests and biodiversity in Colombia.... Read More

In 2013, the United Nations (UN) designated 30 July as the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, with the aim of raising awareness of the situation of the victims of human trafficking, and of the promotion and protection of their rights.... Read More

La Merced de Buenos Aires is a tiny settlement in the Imbabura region of northern Ecuador, located just 20km as the crow flies from the Colombian border.... Read More

Reversing an eight-year downward trend, the overall number of homicides in Colombia rose by 6.7% last year to reach 12,130, according to the annual Forensis report published by the government’s National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences (IML).... Read More

Last month cocaleros (coca producers) affiliated with Asociación Departamental de Productores de Coca de Los Yungas de La Paz (Adepcoca), an organization which represents Bolivia’s traditional Yungas coca producing area (La Paz department), began fresh protests in La Paz.... Read More

Femicides, defined as the murder of women over 15 years of age due to their gender, remain an important problem throughout Latin America.... Read More