Andean Group

Andean Group - May 2023

Since President Nicolás Maduro took office ten years ago, Venezuela has plunged ever further down international NGO Transparency International’s corruption perceptions index, deteriorating from the world’s 16th most corrupt country in 2013 to the fourth most corrupt in 2022.

Andean Group - April 2023

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Introduction
- Introduction
Bolivia
- Panic over dollar shortages
- From Russia with love
Colombia
- Ceasefire with Clan del Golfo suspended
- Petro’s reforms unveil coalition cracks
Venezuela
- Trying to keep the migration crisis in the spotlight
Ecuador
- Crack in the foundations
Highlights
- Economic Highlights

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.

Andean Group - March 2023

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Introduction
- Introduction
Ecuador
- Electoral violence rears its head
Venezuela
- NGO bill sparks fears of Nicaragua-style crackdown
Bolivia
- Infighting begins to destabilise the MAS
Colombia
- Petro unveils sweeping national development plan
Peru
- Protests dampen economic outlook
Highlights
- Economic highlights

By the time the third candidate was gunned down ahead of Ecuador’s provincial and municipal elections, there was little denying that the country’s surging drug war had meshed with politics.

Andean Group - February 2023

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Introduction
- Introduction
Bolivia
- Camacho’s arrest inflames regional divide
- Gov’t claims progress on coca eradication
Region
- Andean countries struggle with food insecurity
Ecuador
- Lasso looks to strengthen ties with US
Colombia
- The shifting dynamics of conflict
- Petro to take over utility regulators
Venezuela
- Back to hyperinflation?
- The gradual return of tourists
Highlights
- Economic Highlights

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.

Andean Group - January 2023

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Introduction
- Introduction
Peru
- Disgraced Castillo fails to break the democratic order
Venezuela
- Maduro turns on illegal gold miners
- Easing of sanctions may signal end to pariah status
Colombia
- Gas output to rise in long transition to green energy
Region
- Waking up to green hydrogen
Highlights
- Economic Highlights

Like many aspects of his presidency, Pedro Castillo’s attempt at a coup was a calamitous affair.