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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 16 August 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 15 August three national deputies from Peru’s ruling Peruanos por el Kambio (PPK) party, including Vice President Mercedes Aráoz, announced they were abandoning the PPK congressional bench.... Read More
* Peru’s national statistics institute (INEI) has revealed new figures which show GDP growth in June 2019 was 2.62% in annual terms.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
Venezuela’s de facto government led by Nicolás Maduro has wasted no time in launching the promised “counteroffensive” in the wake of sweeping sanctions imposed by the US government last week.... Read More
Indigenous authorities from Colombia’s south-western department of Cauca declared a state of emergency on 11 August and permanent assembly following a series of deadly attacks against indigenous leaders and members of the indigenous guard.... Read More
VENEZUELA | Maduro reiterates alliance with China amid US sanctions.... Read More
Peru’s energy and mines, and economy ministers, Francisco Ísmodes and Carlos Oliva respectively, faced a grilling in congress on 14 August about the suspension of the US$1.4bn ‘Tía María’ open-pit copper mining project in the southern region of Arequipa by President Martín Vizcarra five days earlier.... Read More
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