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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 22 November 2019

From LatinNews Daily
On 21 November, hundreds of thousands of people across Colombia took part in the general strike and public demonstrations called by local trade unions and students in rejection of the economic and social policies of the government led by President Iván Duque.... Read More
* Francisco Santa Cruz, the coordinator at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Peru, has reported that Peru’s Human Development Index (HDI) registered an accumulated increase of 60% between 2003 and 2019, which represents an average growth of 3% per year.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
Since declaring herself interim president following Evo Morales’s resignation on 10 November [WR-19-45], Jeanine Áñez has pledged to “restore peace and hold free and transparent elections in the shortest time possible”.... Read More
Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno suffered a serious setback on 17 November when opposition parties in the national assembly from across the political spectrum united to reject and then archive an economic package which his government had hoped would raise some US$700m.... Read More
PERU | Budget boost.... Read More
Supporters of Venezuela’s widely recognised interim president Juan Guaidó, motivated by mushrooming protests across the region, especially Bolivia, took to the streets in their largest numbers for several months on 16 November.... Read More

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