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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 13 March 2020

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On 12 March, Venezuela’s de facto president, Nicolás Maduro, declared a national health emergency in response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, and appealed for the US to lift the economic sanctions against the country for reasons of public health.... Read More
* Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), had held a phone conversation with Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno in which she offer the organisation’s continued support in the face of the country’s economic struggles, exacerbated by the recent collapse in international oil prices and the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
Conjecture abounds when it comes to the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic.... Read More
Less than a week after a negotiated agreement to appoint a new electoral council (CNE) in Venezuela [WR-20-09] – a rare (albeit tentative) step forward in the struggle for a peaceful solution to the country’s political crisis – these fledgling hopes of democratic progress were put in stark perspective on 6 March by a fire that destroyed the majority of the country’s electronic voting infrastructure.... Read More
A special session of the Bolivian legislative assembly was held in El Alto on 5 March, to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the city’s official foundation.... Read More
The emergence of an audio recording apparently implicating President Iván Duque – along with former president Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010) – in an illegal vote-buying operation, has sparked an intensification of the scrutiny into Duque’s 2018 presidential election campaign, escalating from an inconvenient distraction into a full-blown corruption scandal.... Read More

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