Andean Group - July 2021

The western Venezuelan state of Apure has been embroiled in conflict since late March, when clashes erupted between the dissident 10th Front of the disbanded Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrilla group and the Venezuelan military.... Read More

The western Venezuelan state of Apure has been embroiled in conflict since late March, when clashes erupted between the dissident 10th Front of the disbanded Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrilla group and the Venezuelan military (FANB).... Read More

The porosity of the Colombia-Venezuela border is mostly discussed by the politicians of both countries in terms of security risks.... Read More

Shaken by over five weeks of massive anti-government protests that have presented one of the biggest challenges of his presidency, on 6 June Colombia’s President Iván Duque offered his latest concession to the demonstrators, in the form of a proposed police reform.... Read More

Finally, after seven weeks that saw Colombians take to the streets in unprecedented numbers to oppose a long-since scrapped tax reform, the country’s had some respite from the rolling national strikes that had paralysed it.... Read More

A June report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has highlighted that global flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) fell significantly in 2020.... Read More

After only recently passing a tax reform in December 2019, Ecuador is once again bracing itself for a new tax changes, which analysts argue is necessary to ensure long term fiscal sustainability as oil revenues progressively decline.... Read More

A partnership, announced on 5 June between the US Southern Command (Southcom), the international NGO Global Fishing Watch (GFW) and various Latin American governments, seeks to prevent foreign fishing fleets from violating countries’ territorial waters.... Read More

ECUADOR | Counting the businesses lost to the pandemic.... Read More