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Andean Group - December 2020

Introduction
We begin this December edition of Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group in Colombia, where the emergence of some 24,000 audio recordings gathered by the attorney general’s office has exposed a tangled web of crime and corruption, involving fugitive guerrilla commanders, former attorney general Néstor Humberto Martínez (2016-2019), and the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).... Read More
Colombia
Senator Roy Barreras, of Colombia’s centre-right Partido de la U, in November accused former attorney general Néstor Humberto Martínez (2016-2019) of conspiring with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to organise “undercover entrapment operations to discredit the peace process”.... Read More
Between legal challenges, public protests, and threats of violence against environmental activists, Colombia’s impassioned national debate over whether to push ahead with plans to extract unconventional oil and gas reserves through hydraulic fracturing – or ‘fracking’ – shows no sign of easing.... Read More
Peru
A group of Peruvian indigenous organisations met with representatives from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on 6 October, to denounce the murder of four community leaders since the country entered a state of emergency in March in response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
Venezuela
The domestic opposition to Nicolás Maduro’s government has increasingly struggled to mobilise public support within Venezuela, as the failure of large-scale protest movements in 2017 and 2019 has disillusioned much of the population.... Read More
Bolivia
Almost a year after Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) was forced to resign, the left-wing Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) returned to power in November, following Luis Arce’s decisive electoral victory the previous month.... Read More
Ecuador
Differing stances on dollarisation have made this issue into a significant point of contention ahead of Ecuador’s February 2021 general election.... Read More
Highlights
PERU | Bonds issue.... Read More

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