Andean Group - February 2023

Anti-government protesters in Bolivia’s eastern department of Santa Cruz announced on 18 January that they would be lifting the roadblocks that had largely cut off the region from the rest of the country since late December.... Read More

Anti-government protesters in Bolivia’s eastern department of Santa Cruz announced on 18 January that they would be lifting the roadblocks that had largely cut off the region from the rest of the country since late December.... Read More

Bolivia’s Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo presented the latest figures on coca leaf cultivation and eradication on 20 December, announcing that, according to field data collected by the interior ministry, the government had exceeded its target for coca eradication for the second year running – achieving a net eradication of 10,260 hectares (ha) of coca leaf in 2022.... Read More

Worrying trends in food insecurity and malnourishment have only gotten worse in Latin America, according to the latest regional overview of the region by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), published 18 January.... Read More

Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso met his US counterpart Joe Biden at the White House on 19 December to discuss deepening the economic and security partnership between the two countries, including strengthening economic integration through the bilateral Trade and Investment Council Agreement and the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity Initiative.... Read More

The Colombian NGO Indepaz published its annual report on the power dynamics and geographical spread of Colombia’s internal conflict on 1 January, outlining shifting trends from 2021-2022.... Read More

It’s not like Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro didn’t warn anybody that he was about to cause the biggest upheaval for the country’s public utilities in nearly three decades.... Read More

Following significant progress in combating hyperinflation, Venezuela is again seeing consumer price increases accelerating.... Read More

Following a loosening of economic sanctions and a partial diplomatic rapprochement between Venezuela and its neighbours in recent months, there have been further signs the one-time pariah state is gradually returning into the folds of the international community.... Read More

BOLIVIA | ‘World class’ silver deposit discovered.... Read More