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Andean Group - July 2019
Introduction
At the end of last year Ecuador’s national assembly approved a reform proposed by President Lenín Moreno the previous May, which amends the controversial communications law approved in 2013 (LOC).... Read More
Ecuador
At the end of last year, Ecuador’s national assembly approved a reform proposed by President Lenín Moreno the previous May, which amends the controversial communications law approved in 2013 (LOC).... Read More
La Merced de Buenos Aires is a tiny settlement in the Imbabura region of northern Ecuador, located just 20km as the crow flies from the Colombian border.... Read More
Bolivia
Since 2015, President Evo Morales and top officials in Bolivia’s energy sector have been repeating the same mantra: the country must become the energy heart of South America.... Read More
Last month cocaleros (coca producers) affiliated with Asociación Departamental de Productores de Coca de Los Yungas de La Paz (Adepcoca), an organization which represents Bolivia’s traditional Yungas coca producing area (La Paz department), began fresh protests in La Paz.... Read More
Colombia
Reversing an eight-year downward trend, the overall number of homicides in Colombia rose by 6.7% last year to reach 12,130, according to the annual Forensis report published by the government’s National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences (IML).... Read More
Region
Femicides, defined as the murder of women over 15 years of age due to their gender, remain an important problem throughout Latin America.... Read More
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- Introduction
- Changes to Ecuador’s communications law
- Is Ecuador fighting a losing battle against illegal mining?
- Bolivia to be the energy heart of South America?
- Divisions between Bolivia's cocaleros again laid bare
- Colombia’s homicides up for the first time in eight years
- Calls to address femicides in the Andean region
- Economic Highlights