Andean Group - October 2021

The disputed events surrounding the ousting of former president Evo Morales (2006-2009) and the ascension of his successor, Jeanine Áñez (2019-2020), is the wound that refuses to heal in Bolivian politics.... Read More

The disputed events surrounding the ousting of former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) and the ascension of his successor, Jeanine Áñez (2019-2020), is the wound that refuses to heal in Bolivian politics. The issue was revisited once again on 17 August, when the Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) published a damning indictment of human rights violations committed under Áñez.... Read More

It was a Chavista flag planted on Colombian soil.... Read More

The number of Venezuelan migrants to have fled their country’s simultaneous economic, social, and political crises since 2015 is now over 5.7m, according to figures released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on 8 September.... Read More

The ExpoCannaBiz business conference that took place in the northern city of Cartagena (Bolívar department), on 16 September was the first major event for the medicinal cannabis industry to take place in Colombia since new regulations targeting the sector were introduced on 23 July.... Read More

Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso held a virtual meeting on 30 August with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in which he said the two leaders agreed to immediately begin trade negotiations with the aim of finalising a free trade agreement (FTA) by March 2022.... Read More

The designation of a new, 4.1m-hectare (ha) biosphere reserve in Peru’s Junín and Cusco regions by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on 15 September was celebrated by the environment ministry as the missing piece in a “great belt of biosphere reserves” stretching from the central Pasco region to Madre de Dios, near the borders with Brazil and Bolivia.... Read More

COLOMBIA | Revised tax reform promulgated.... Read More