LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 09 October 2019

On 8 October hundreds of indigenous protesters burst into Ecuador’s national assembly building in Quito calling for President Lenín Moreno to resign over his government’s decision to remove fuel subsidies last week.... Read More

* The Comité Cívico Potosinista (Comcipo), a civil-society group in Bolivia's Potosí department, has begun an indefinite strike demanding more royalties for the exploitation of lithium and the defence of natural resources.... Read More

Corruption is a massive issue in Latin America and is responsible for many of the problems that continue to affect the continent.... Read More

The announcement on 29 August by Luciano Marín Arango (‘Iván Márquez’) that he and other leaders of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) were rejecting the peace agreement and resuming an armed struggle against the government may, or may not, change the dynamics of the country’s armed groups.... Read More

A ruthless crime in Lima has been getting blanket coverage on social media and in the Peruvian popular press.... Read More

The valley of the Apurímac, Ene, and Mantaro rivers (Vraem) in south-eastern Peru is the country’s largest illegal coca growing area.... Read More

In its annual report, released on 22 August 2019, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found that the overall volume of coca cultivated in Bolivia in 2018 had declined by 6% from 2017 figures.... Read More

As the Venezuelan humanitarian crisis continues, millions of Venezuelans continue to flee the embattled country.... Read More