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Added on the 17/02/2020 13:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
South American leaders arrive at the Amazon summit in Belem to set out bold solutions to save the damaged Amazon the world's biggest rainforest. IMAGES
General Laura Richardson, commander of the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), arrives at the Carondelet Palace in Quito, Ecuador. A US government delegation, led by Special Presidential Advisor for the Americas to Joe Biden's administration, Christopher Dodd, is beginning a three-day visit to discuss plans for security cooperation between the two countries. IMAGES
Andean foreign, interior and defense ministers take a family photo in Lima, ahead of an emergency meeting organized to define joint actions against transnational crime, amid the escalating security crisis in Ecuador. IMAGES
Images of the scene where the prosecutor investigating the dramatic live-broadcast armed assault last week on an Ecuadoran television station was shot dead in Guayaquil. IMAGES
Peruvian police officers in the capital Lima board a plane bound for the northern border with Ecuador, after Peru put the border under a state of emergency following the security crisis that erupted in the neighboring country. Ecuador's president has given orders to "neutralize" criminal gangs after gunmen stormed and opened fire in a TV studio, as bandits threatened random executions on a second day of terror in the country. IMAGES