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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 07 May 2020
From LatinNews Daily
On 6 May, Peru’s interior minister, Gastón Rodríguez, confirmed that the first phase of the country’s economic reactivation strategy will begin as planned on 8 May, despite concerns about the risk to public health, as the death toll from coronavirus (Covid-19) continues to rise.... Read More
* Colombia’s President Iván Duque has announced a new round of economic protections for businesses affected by quarantine measures taken in response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
From Security & Strategic Review
The Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), the largest guerrilla group in Colombia since the demobilisation of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) in 2016, was the principal target of the security agenda that formed the basis of President Iván Duque’s 2018 election campaign, and has been something of a nemesis for his government ever since.... Read More
US attorney general William Barr’s indictment of Nicolás Maduro on 26 March, the first of a sitting foreign president since Panama’s Manuel Noriega in 1988, sent shockwaves through Venezuela.... Read More
One of Bolivia’s first recorded cases of coronavirus (Covid-19), a 65-year-old woman in the city of Santa Cruz, the capital of the eponymous department, was turned away from four hospitals by panicked patients and staff, before eventually being isolated by local authorities.... Read More
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