Andean Group
Andean Group - December 2020
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- Introduction
Colombia
- Entrapment scandal puts peace process at risk
- Fracking plans face legal challenges
Peru
- Struggle for land drives indigenous murders
Venezuela
- Human rights debate reaches international stage
Bolivia
- Arce sets out economic objectives
Ecuador
- Dollarisation comes under scrutiny
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
We begin this December edition of Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group in Colombia, where the emergence of some 24,000 audio recordings gathered by the attorney general’s office has exposed a tangled web of crime and corruption, involving fugitive guerrilla commanders, former attorney general Néstor Humberto Martínez (2016-2019), and the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Andean Group - November 2020
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- Introduction
Region
- Environmental defenders seek international action
Peru
- Vizcarra bogged down in corruption claims
Colombia
- Growing concern over judicial independence
Bolivia
- The future of lithium
Ecuador
- Local referendum threatens mining industry
Venezuela
- Battle over state assets continues
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
International NGO Global Witness has identified the Andean region as a hot spot for violence against environmental defenders – activists and community leaders fighting against environmental destruction and associated human rights abuses.
Andean Group - October 2020
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- Introduction
Colombia
- Popular protests revive police reform debate
Venezuela
- War on drugs takes on a political edge
Bolivia
- Disinformation campaign prompts election concerns
Region
- US aims to counter China with ‘América Crece’
Peru
- Mining sector at the heart of economic revival efforts
Ecuador
- State oil apparatus braces for austerity
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
A historic ruling issued by Colombia’s supreme court (CSJ) in September condemned the “systematic, violent, and arbitrary intervention of the Fuerza Pública [state security forces] in demonstrations and protests”.
Andean Group - September 2020
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- Introduction
Ecuador
- Galápagos dispute drives diplomatic tensions
- Government strikes new IMF credit agreement
Bolivia
- Protest response provokes human rights concerns
Region
- Eradication figures dominate counter-drug debate
Colombia
- Hidroituango dam project gets new board of directors
Venezuela
- DirecTV back on screens
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
Ecuador’s government found itself dragged unexpectedly into the spiralling geopolitical tensions between the US and China in August, as a fishing dispute off the country’s Pacific coast escalated quickly into a broader diplomatic debacle.
Andean Group - August 2020
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- Introduction
Region
- Threat of exclusion looms over elections
- Pandemic stems flow of remittances
Bolivia
- Pro-government militia draws international criticism
Colombia
- Sexual assault scandal adds to military malaise
Venezuela
- Poverty report paints a bleak picture
Ecuador
- Government seals debt restructuring deal
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
By April 2021, four elections are scheduled to have taken place in the Andean region – general elections in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, and a legislative election in Venezuela.
Andean Group - July 2020
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- Introduction
Colombia
- Coca crackdown threatens lives and livelihoods
Venezuela
- Pandemic puts sanctions in the spotlight
Bolivia
- Electoral fraud question hangs over coming vote
Region
- Canadian mining interests face coronavirus criticism
Peru
- Pandemic threatens to devastate economy
Ecuador
- Pensions reform looms as social security deficit worsens
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
Following the 2016 peace agreement in Colombia, military coca eradication missions were meant to be swapped for development aid and crop substitution programmes.
Andean Group - June 2020
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- Introduction
Region
- Pandemic poses existential threat to indigenous peoples
Peru
- Health strategy at risk of collapse
Colombia
- Army spying scandal sparks outrage
Ecuador
- Government seeks to shore up future finances
Venezuela
- Oil sector seeks reform to survive
Bolivia
- GMO decree ignites war of words
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
The Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica (Coica), a transnational umbrella organisation representing indigenous communities from across the Amazon basin, has warned that the failure of national governments to protect indigenous peoples from the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic would be tantamount to “ethnocide”.
Andean Group - May 2020
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- Introduction
Colombia
- Erratic ELN brings confusion to peace process
Venezuela
- Drug charge bombshell escalates political crisis
Bolivia
- Border crisis exemplifies panicked pandemic response
Region
- China's 'face mask diplomacy' tests geopolitical ties
Ecuador
- Triple emergency drives debate on debt restructuring
Peru
- Indigenous groups call for clean-up of extractive industries
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
We begin this May edition of Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group by exploring the turbulent relationship between the Colombian government and the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) guerrilla group.
Andean Group - April 2020
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- Introduction
Region
- Migrants pay the price for security shortcomings
Colombia
- Danger escalates for social leaders
Peru
- New challenges in the fight against illegal mining
Bolivia
- Future of state-owned companies up for debate
Ecuador
- Tricky path to a US trade agreement
Venezuela
- The continued importance of trade with China
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
As governments across the Andean region have increasingly demonstrated a willingness to scapegoat Venezuelan migrants for problems of crime and insecurity, the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic threatens to add to this rising tide of xenophobia.
Andean Group - March 2020
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- Introduction
Bolivia
- Interim government faces indigenous challenge
Peru
- Vizcarra seeks anti-corruption coalition
Ecuador
- IACHR considers landmark sexual violence case
Region
- Facing major challenges to meet clean palm oil targets
Colombia
- Technological innovation and transport: the trials of Uber in Colombia
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
We begin this March edition of Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group with Bolivia, where increasing political polarisation in recent months has shone a light on deeper-lying social divisions in the country, as critics of Jeanine Áñez’s interim government have argued that there is a broadly racialised divide between supporters of Áñez, and of the deposed Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS).
Andean Group - February 2020
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- Introduction
Colombia
- Paramilitary resurgence going under the radar
Peru
- Transnational turn for war on drug trafficking
Bolivia
- Economy faces ongoing challenges in 2020
Ecuador
- Tax reform a much-needed victory for the government
Venezuela
- Struggling to address the electricity crisis
Highlights
- Economic Higlights
In this February edition of Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group, we begin with Colombia, where violence has surged to the highest levels since the country’s 2016 peace agreement.
Andean Group - January 2020
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- Introduction
Venezuela
- Gold rush driving violent crime
Region
- China shifts approach to infrastructure investment in the Andean region
- Does poverty drive protest?
Colombia
- Chinese companies win Bogotá Metro contract
Ecuador
- The costs of protest: Ecuador digs itself into a deeper economic hole
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
In Venezuela, the deaths of eight people in the gold-mining town of Ikabarú, on Bolívar state’s Brazilian border, has drawn significant national attention.