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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 03 April 2020
From LatinNews Daily
On 2 April, Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno acknowledged that the official figures on coronavirus (Covid-19) deaths are significantly understating the extent of the country’s health emergency and admitted that his government has been unable to cope with the severity of this “crisis”.... Read More
* Through a virtual meeting with Alicia Bárcena, executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac), Venezuela’s minister of social and territorial development, Aristóbulo Istúriz, has appealed for Bárcena to join United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in supporting the suspension of economic sanctions against Venezuela during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
Demands for a ceasefire in Colombia for the duration of the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis have been gathering support for some time – in the last week, the United Nations special representative in Colombia, Carlos Ruiz Massieu, the national truth commission, and the congressional peace commission all added their voices to the appeals of social movements across the country.... Read More
The popularity of President Martín Vizcarra has long been an anomaly in a political system that has broadly lost the trust of the Peruvian public.... Read More
Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno is striving to contend with one of the most serious outbreaks of coronavirus (Covid-19) in the region, while sustaining an indebted economy battered by virus-induced paralysis and the lowest oil prices in a generation.... Read More
Bolivia went into full lockdown on 29 March, the day after the country suffered its first fatality from the outbreak of coronavirus (Covid-19).... Read More
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