Andean Group
Andean Group - September 2022
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- Introduction
Ecuador
- Bomb blast highlights changing tactics by organised crime
- Lasso’s oil targets – a pipe dream?
Bolivia
- Lithium alliance taking shape
Venezuela
- SEZs mark further break from Chavista orthodoxy
- Blaming doctors for the healthcare crisis
Region
- Mixed picture on coca and cocaine production
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
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.
Andean Group - August 2022
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- Introduction
Colombia
- Major changes in security policy expected under Petro
- Petro looks to calm rattled markets as Colombia swings left
Bolivia
- Áñez’s sentencing reanimates debates over judicial independence
- New coca company facing same old challenges
Venezuela
- Renewed pressure on US to allow revival of PetroCaribe
Ecuador
- Political turmoil drives up country risk
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
We kick off this August 2022 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group in Colombia, which is set for major change following Gustavo Petro’s inauguration on 7 August.
Andean Group - July 2022
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- Introduction
Colombia
- President-elect Petro’s green pledges face political tests
- ‘Gentil Duarte’ killed in Venezuela
Venezuela
- Maduro seeks stronger partnerships in the Middle East
Peru
- Facing a food security crisis
Bolivia
- Morales moves against top security officials
Ecuador
- Lasso forced into U-turns on subsidies, oil and mining
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
Andean Group - June 2022
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- Introduction
Colombia
- JEP breaks new ground with ‘false positive’ confessions
Venezuela
- Government to float shares in state companies
Bolivia
- Hoping to renegotiate Brazil’s gas supply contract
Peru
- Las Bambas shutdown prompts harder stance on mining protests
Ecuador
- When states of exception are no longer exceptional
- Under pressure to increase public investment
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
Colombia took a symbolic step towards reconciliation on 26 April when, in a historic first, ten former soldiers admitted their role in the ‘false positive’ killings that took place during the country’s internal conflict.
Andean Group - May 2022
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- Introduction
Bolivia
- Heads roll at counter-narcotics agency
Peru
- As Castillo flounders, Peru’s economy switches to autopilot
Colombia
- Deadly army raid in Putumayo revives ‘false positives’ scandal
Venezuela
- Corruption and abuses in the Orinoco Mining Arc
- Attempting to rein in dollarisation
Ecuador
- Casting a wide net in search of trade agreements
Bolivia
- Tourism operators rail against Covid restrictions
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
It has been a turbulent few months for Bolivia’s counter-narcotics agency (FELCN).
Andean Group - April 2022
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- Introduction
Colombia/Peru
- Booming coca cultivation draws US concern
Venezuela
- Oil sanctions under the spotlight
Ecuador
- Ukraine war brings mixed fortunes for exporters
- Steps to address the prisons crisis
Bolivia
- UN rapporteur emphasises need for judicial reform
Colombia
- Opening the door to fracking?
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
The latest annual report from the US Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INCSR), published 1 March, outlined major backsliding in coca eradication in Colombia and Peru in 2020.
Andean Group - March 2022
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- Introduction
Colombia
- Arauca gripped by guerrilla-on-guerrilla violence
Peru
- Oil spill fallout highlights weakening environmental law enforcement
Ecuador
- Oil spill highlights erosion risks in pipeline system
- Closer to balancing the books
Bolivia
- Sustainable progress on poverty?
Venezuela-Colombia
- Alarm over military drift in Venezuela-Russia relations
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
Colombia’s eastern department of Arauca saw in the new year with its “most violent day in ten years,” in the words of departmental human rights ombudsman Juan Carlos Villate.
Andean Group - February 2022
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- Introduction
Ecuador
- Lasso takes a hard line in response to surging violence
Colombia
- Police reform clears congress
Peru
- PetroPerú to recommence oil production amid political upheaval
- Castillo facing mounting transparency concerns
Region
- Mixed fortunes in the struggle against inflation
Ecuador
- Lasso’s investment drive facing major obstacles
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
Security records were broken over and over in Ecuador last year, which saw the country’s worst ever prison massacres, the highest quantity of seized drugs on record, and the worst homicide rate in a decade.
Andean Group - January 2022
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- Introduction
Bolivia
- Looking to become a major player in green energy
Colombia
- Farc removed from US terror blacklist
Venezuela/Ecuador
- Saab under scrutiny in Ecuador
Ecuador
- Uncertainty follows high court ruling upholding rights of nature
- Fiscal outlook improves with passage of tax reform
Peru
- Playing it safe with the 2022 budget
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
Nearing the end of a 20-year natural gas boom that generated considerable export revenues and fuelled generous social spending programmes by the ruling left-wing Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), Bolivia is seeking new possibilities in renewable energy.