Andean Group - April 2023

Queues have been forming for weeks outside Bolivia’s central bank in downtown La Paz, as the supply of US dollars available at commercial banks and traders has dried up.... Read More

Queues have been forming for weeks outside Bolivia’s central bank in downtown La Paz, as the supply of US dollars available at commercial banks and traders has dried up.... Read More

For the eighth time since Russia invaded Ukraine in March 2022, Bolivia abstained in a 24 February resolution in the United Nations General Assembly condemning the invasion.... Read More

A bilateral ceasefire between the Colombian government and the Clan del Golfo drug trafficking organisation (DTO) was suspended by President Gustavo Petro on 19 March, following two weeks of highly disruptive protests that the government claims were orchestrated by the DTO.... Read More

Pushing through a pension reform bill can test the limits of any democratically elected government, as evidenced by the protests that France’s President Emmanuel Macron has faced in recent weeks.... Read More

Almost €810m (US$858.55m) was pledged at the 2023 International Conference in Solidarity with Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants and their Host Countries and Communities, according to the European Union (EU)’s commissioner for crisis management, Janez Lenarčič.... Read More

Ecuador’s booming cocaine trade is leading to ever-rising seizures of the drug by the authorities, to the extent that the country is becoming something of a pioneer in what to do with impounded cocaine.... Read More

COLOMBIA | Rate hikes fail to curb inflation.... Read More