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Andean Group - April 2022
Introduction
The latest annual report from the US Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INCSR), published 1 March, outlined major backsliding in coca eradication in Colombia and Peru in 2020.... Read More
Colombia/Peru
The latest annual report from the US Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), published 1 March, outlined major backsliding in coca eradication in Colombia and Peru in 2020.... Read More
Venezuela
For the US, enforcing simultaneous economic sanctions on two different petro-states it accuses of human rights violations appears to be one too many.... Read More
Ecuador
After higher-than-expected GDP growth of 4.2% in 2021, in late March Ecuador’s central bank (BCE) published its growth expectations for 2022, forecasting a more modest 2.8% increase.... Read More
After 2021 saw the worst prison violence in Ecuador’s history, efforts are underway to bring the situation back under control – spurred, perhaps, by the release of a highly critical report from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on 17 March.... Read More
Bolivia
The United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Diego García-Sayán, described judicial independence in Bolivia as a “pending task” on 22 February.... Read More
Colombia
In late March Colombia’s state-run oil company, Ecopetrol, was granted an environmental license for the Kale project, a pilot fracking project located in Puerto Wilches, in the northeastern department of Santander.... Read More
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