Andean Group - June 2020

The Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica (Coica), a transnational umbrella organisation representing indigenous communities from across the Amazon basin, has warned that the failure of national governments to protect indigenous peoples from the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic would be tantamount to “ethnocide”.... Read More

A 31 March statement from the Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica (Coica), a transnational umbrella organisation representing indigenous communities from across the Amazon basin, warned that the failure of national governments to protect indigenous peoples from the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic would be tantamount to “ethnocide”.... Read More

As May came to a close, Peru had registered 4,506 deaths from coronavirus (Covid-19), at a per capita rate second only to Brazil and Ecuador in Latin America.... Read More

In an interview with television channel Caracol regarding the latest espionage scandal linked to the Colombian military, army commander General Eduardo Zapateiro insisted that “individual actions cannot define this institution, beloved and valued by the Colombian people”.... Read More

On 16 May, Ecuador’s national assembly passed the ‘public finances law’, the second of two ‘emergency laws’ sent by President Lenín Moreno's executive to address the country’s precarious economic situation.... Read More

It is no secret that Venezuela’s economy, and by association the country as a whole, is heavily dependent on oil.... Read More

Interim president Jeanine Áñez’s sudden move to permit trials with five genetically modified seed varieties has stirred passionate debates over food sovereignty and the environment in Bolivia.... Read More

COLOMBIA | Public transport at risk.... Read More