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Andean Group - May 2014 (ISSN 1741-4466)
SECURITY: The three new amigos
Ecuador’s defence minister, María Fernanda Espinosa, received her Peruvian and Colombian counterparts in Quito on 12 May, the first time the country has hosted such a tripartite meeting. It is a tribute to the success of Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa at ameliorating ties with his country’s neighbours that a meeting about trilateral defence cooperation was able to take place at all. Ecuador and Peru were at war as recently as 1995 and Ecuador did not seem far away from being on a war footing with Colombia after the Colombian military bombed a guerrilla camp of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) on Ecuadorean soil back in 2008.
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- ECONOMY: Morales confirms nuclear intentions
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- SECURITY: The three new amigos
- POLITICS & ECONOMY: Correa goes for a hat trick
- INFRASTRUCTURE: Expansion of road infrastructure makes progress but much remains to be done
- ECONOMY & POLITICS: Stagnating
- Energy integration gathers pace