LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 28 June 2018

Development: On 27 June Colombia’s national senate approved a bill outlining the procedural regulations for the transitional justice system (JEP) created by the peace accord that the Colombian government signed with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) leftist guerrillas in 2016, which includes two amendments introduced by the right-wing Centro Democrático (CD, Uribistas) party.... Read More

Peru: Peru’s foreign trade & tourism ministry (Mincetur) has reported that Peruvian cotton garment exports to Brazil increased by 90% to US$15.7m year-on-year in the first four months of the year.... Read More

As Colombia’s northern region of Catatumbo continues to be affected by clashes between the armed guerrilla groups Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) and Ejército Popular de Liberación (EPL), local civil society organisations describe the response by the Colombian government led by President Juan Manuel Santos as slow and inadequate.... Read More

As Colombia’s northern region of Catatumbo continues to be affected by clashes between the guerrilla groups Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) and Ejército Popular de Liberación (EPL), civil society organisations describe the Colombian government’s response as slow and inadequate.... Read More

In 2008, as part of negotiations over Bolivia’s new constitution (eventually promulgated in 2009), President Evo Morales and the ruling Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), based in the western highlands of the country, did a deal with the elites of the eastern so-called media luna departments (Santa Cruz, Pando, Beni, and Tarija).... Read More

Extractive industries came under the spotlight in Ecuador during the national referendum in February 2018.... Read More

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s interest in Venezuela is not merely geo-political nose-thumbing at the US in its own back yard.... Read More

PERU | Oil concessions repealed.... Read More