Andean Group - September 2022

The bomb blast that tore through a residential street in Guayaquil’s Cristo del Consuelo neighbourhood on 14 August was perhaps the starkest example to date of how Ecuador’s drug gangs are borrowing tactics from their more seasoned peers in Colombia and Mexico.... Read More

The bomb blast that tore through a residential street in Guayaquil’s Cristo del Consuelo neighbourhood on 14 August was perhaps the starkest example to date of how Ecuador’s drug gangs are borrowing tactics from their more seasoned peers in Colombia and Mexico.... Read More

When President Guillermo Lasso took office in May 2021 he declared that under his leadership Ecuador would double its crude oil production to 1m barrels per day (bpd).... Read More

Bolivia’s Foreign Minister Rogelio Mayta met with his Mexican counterpart Marcelo Ebrard on 5 August, with the two countries agreeing that their state-owned lithium companies will work together both in promoting the sale of lithium as a primary product and in the development of industrial-scale lithium processing capacity.... Read More

As Venezuela’s government seeks to rebuild a shattered economy, it looks like it plans to take yet another modest step toward capitalism by attracting foreign investment, albeit in a handful of economic enclaves.... Read More

Venezuela’s crumbling healthcare system has been hit by successive waves of crises since 2017.... Read More

The US White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) released its annual estimates of coca and cocaine production in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia on 14 July.... Read More

PERU | Growth forecast lowered.... Read More