LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 17 January 2020

On 16 January, Bolivia’s interim defence minister Fernando López announced that the armed forces had been deployed to cities across the country and will carry out regular patrols until 24 January.... Read More

* Ecuador's national statistics institute (Inec) has reported that unemployment increased from 3.7% to 3.8% between December 2018 and December 2019, while the proportion of the population living in poverty rose from 23.2% to 25% in the same period.... Read More

Colombians are no strangers to spying scandals.... Read More

Venezuela’s foreign ministry has condemned the latest round of US sanctions as an effort to “undermine the proper functioning of Venezuela’s democratic institutions”, in order to “hide its own manifest failure to impose a change of government by force”.... Read More

Peru’s constitutional tribunal (TC) ruled this week that the decision by President Martín Vizcarra to dissolve congress in September last year was legitimate.... Read More

After facing widespread criticism for the use of military force against protesters in November 2019, Jeanine Áñez’s interim government has come to recognise judicial action as its most valuable weapon for dealing with its opponents, most notably the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) of former president Evo Morales (2006-2019), which still controls both houses of the legislative assembly and commands considerable popular support.... Read More

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Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno celebrated the strengthening of bilateral economic ties and cooperation with the US on 13 January after meeting the head of the US National Security Council’s Western Hemisphere Affairs directorate, Mauricio Claver-Carone.... Read More