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Andean Group - January 2011 (ISSN 1741-4466)
COLOMBIA: Public-private partnership to rebuild Colombia
While the world watches footage of the devastating floods in
Queensland, Australia, and numerous documentaries are released to mark the one
year anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, few mainstream media
outlets have paid attention to the continued floods in Colombia, which had (by
December) displaced or severely affected over 2m people and done damage
that will cost US$5bn in reconstruction. The natural phenomenon, which is
forecast to last until July this year, triggered the declaration of a state of
emergency [RA-10-12] that has enable President Juan Manuel Santos to pass 25
legislative decrees, including a tax increase similar to the one that prompted
the castigation of Antanas Mockus during the presidential run-off campaign last
June.
- A home run for Chávez?
- VENEZUELA: Another New Year's devaluation
- BOLIVIA: Morales moves against opponents
- BOLIVIA: Morales misjudges over fuel subsidies
- ECONOMIC OVERVIEW
- COLOMBIA: Farc promise a military escalation in 2011
- COLOMBIA: Public-private partnership to rebuild Colombia
- COLOMBIA: Trade preference problems
- ECUADOR: Key media and banking appointments made
- ECUADOR: Correa plays hardball over conservation
- ECUADOR: Bread prices rise
- PERU: Peru's justice system to get a makeover
- PERU: Apra is in trouble
- Fuel Smuggling