Andean Group - March 2018 (ISSN 1741-4466)

Colombia might have registered its lowest murder rate in four decades last year, but attention has been increasingly focused on the rise in number of murders of social leaders (a catch-all media term for representatives of trade unions, human rights organisations, environmental and land rights groups, community pressure groups and political parties).... Read More

Colombia might have registered its lowest murder rate in four decades last year but attention has been increasingly focused on the rising number of murders of social leaders.... Read More

Two people were killed and 30 injured on 1 February, amid clashes between police and farmers engaged in a strike that caused multiple road closures and widespread disruption.... Read More

Ecuador’s education reform has been widely recognised as one of the most ambitious and successful in Latin America of the current century.... Read More

Earlier this year [RA-18-01], we noted the deepening production problems at Venezuela’s state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa).... Read More

Oil workers are not the only ‘deserters’ from the Bolivarian Revolution.... Read More

BOLIVIA | Trade deficit with CAN.... Read More