Category: Andes
August 3, 2018 > Staff
Venezuela relaxes foreign currency exchange controls
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA VENEZUELA: The ruling party’s National Constituent Assembly voted yesterday to relax strict currency exchange controls as part of President Nicolás Maduro’s plan to combat the […] Read More >
July 25, 2018 > Staff
Former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe quits Senate amid criminal investigation
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA COLOMBIA: Former president and two times senator Álvaro Uribe presented his resignation yesterday, only four days after being sworn in for his second tenure, after […] Read More >
July 20, 2018 > Staff
Crisis in Peru’s legal system deepens
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA PERU: The head of Peru’s judicial branch, Judge Duberlí Rodríguez, resigned yesterday in the wake of the corruption scandal that began almost two weeks ago […] Read More >
July 17, 2018 > Staff
Colombian former rebel rejects Congress seat to protest unfulfilled peace process
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA COLOMBIA: Iván Márquez, the former chief negotiator of the FARC, confirmed yesterday that he renounces one of the 10 Congress seats that the former rebels […] Read More >
July 12, 2018 > Staff
Ecuador upholds sentence against Chevron, New York state disbars representing lawyer for bribery
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA ECUADOR: Thehighest court upheld a sentence that requires U.S. oil giant Chevron to pay $9.5 billion in damages for decades polluting the rainforest. Oil operations […] Read More >
July 11, 2018 > Staff
Colombia signs law to allow collective demobilization of criminal gangs
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA COLOMBIA: President Juan Manuel Santos signed a law on Monday paving the way for the surrender of criminal gangs that allows for a reduction of sentences […] Read More >
July 10, 2018 > Staff
The U.S. menaced Ecuador into backing off U.N. breast-milk resolution
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA ECUADOR-UNITED STATES: The United States strong-armed Ecuador into backing off from proposing a resolution to promote breast-feeding during the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly at […] Read More >
July 6, 2018 > Staff
Ecuadorean judge issues international capture order for ex President Correa
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA ECUADOR: A judge issued an order on Tuesday for former president Rafael Correa’s capture and extradition from Belgium, where he has lived for the past year […] Read More >
July 5, 2018 > Staff
Seven people murdered in south-western Colombia, responsibilities are yet unclear
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA COLOMBIA: The bodies of seven people with signs of torture were found near the village of Argelia, in the south-western region of Cauca early Monday morning. Local […] Read More >
July 3, 2018 > Staff
High court in Peru rejects ex-President Toledo’s attempt to stop extradition request
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA PERU: A high court rejected a petition by former president Alejandro Toledo to declare invalid a request to the United States for his extradition. Toledo has […] Read More >