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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 11 February 2020
From LatinNews Daily
On 10 February Colombia’s defence minister, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, promised a “total offensive” against the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) guerrillas, in response to the armed group’s declaration of a 72-hour nationwide ‘armed strike’, beginning on 14 February.... Read More
* Gary Rodríguez, the general manager of Bolivia’s private sector lobby Instituto Boliviano de Comercio Exterior (IBCE), has told China’s official news agency Xinhua, that as in previous years, traditional products such as gas and minerals continue to account for the bulk (some 80%) of the country’s exports.... Read More
From Security & Strategic Review
As violence in Colombia has surged to the highest levels since the country’s 2016 peace agreement, President Iván Duque’s government has been unequivocal in attributing responsibility to the remnants of the country’s guerrilla forces.... Read More
Peru’s struggle against drug trafficking organisations (DTOs) has been the bane of successive governments, and new defence minister Walter Martos’ pledge to intensify the fight against the DTOs in 2020 seemed, in many ways, like a continuation of this status quo.... Read More
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