Andean Group
Andean Group - November 2018
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- Introduction
Peru
- Tourism in Peru: must the bubble burst?
Colombia
- Private foreign capital: A priority to improve Colombian infrastructure
Bolivia
- Who controls the narrative in Bolivia?
Venezuela
- Spreading terror
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
In this November edition of Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group we begin by looking at Peru where tourism is a major industry, and great success story: recent years have seen an annual increase in both numbers of tourists visiting the country and the amount they spend.
Andean Group - October 2018
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- Introduction
Bolivia
- Bolivia’s water wars: twenty years on, what has changed?
Colombia
- A balance of Santos’ achievements in the education sector
Region
- Andean region continues to struggle with food security
Venezuela
- Labour protests snowball
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
In this October edition of Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group we begin by looking at Bolivia where access to water has long been an explosive issue, particularly given the early 2000 conflict which arose in Cochabamba, Bolivia’s third-largest city, over the attempted privatisation of an ever-dwindling water supply.
Andean Group - September 2018 (ISSN 1741-4466)
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- Introduction
Peru
- Decentralisation and regional development: where is the money going?
- Will electoral reform be a remedy to Peru’s corruption ills?
Ecuador
- Water offers Moreno chance to soothe political tensions
Venezuela
- China weighs up its debt-saddled sibling
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
In this September edition of Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group we begin by looking at Peru.
Andean Group - August 2018 (ISSN 1741-4466)
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- Introduction
Peru
- Money laundering in Peru’s cooperatives sector
Colombia
- Social acceptability concerns threaten Colombia’s mining sector
Bolivia
- Bolivia’s changing socioeconomic inequality and class structure
Venezuela
- Hyperinflation razes the Venezuelan economy
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
In this August edition of Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group we begin by looking at Peru where from January 2019, the country’s savings and credit cooperatives will be subject to financial regulation by the Superintendencia de Banca y Seguros y AFP (SBS), the autonomous government agency responsible for the regulation and supervision of the Peruvian financial system.
Andean Group - July 2018 (ISSN 1741-4466)
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- Introduction
Colombia
- The progress of land restitution in Colombia
- The US-Colombia free trade agreement at six: is Colombia benefitting?
Peru
- How welcome are Venezuelans in Peru?
Venezuela
- Social protests spread as Venezuela collapses
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
Land restitution, a central part of Colombia’s peace process, is allowing thousands of people to move back to the countryside and engage in productive agricultural activity.
Andean Group - June 2018 (ISSN 1741-4466)
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- Introduction
Colombia
- Caught in the crossfire: ongoing violence between rival armed groups in Norte de Santander
Bolivia
- Practical and legal impacts of autonomy for Bolivia’s Santa Cruz
Ecuador
- Moreno continues along extractive path but resistance mounts
Venezuela-Cuba
- The dying days of Pdvsa – and the rise of Rosneft
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
As Colombia’s northern region of Catatumbo continues to be affected by clashes between the armed guerrilla groups Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) and Ejército Popular de Liberación (EPL), local civil society organisations describe the response by the Colombian government led by President Juan Manuel Santos as slow and inadequate.
Andean Group - May 2018 (ISSN 1741-4466)
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- Introduction
Peru
- Northern Peru grows impatient with delayed reconstruction efforts
- Peruvians clamour for justice over Sodalitium scandal
Bolivia
- Morales declares war on contraband
Colombia
- The participation of women in the Colombian peace process
Venezuela
- The beginning of the end?
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
More than a year after the El Niño costero environmental phenomenon caused severe flooding across northern Peru, irrigation systems remain damaged, major roads await repair, and those made homeless have yet to be placed in permanent accommodation.
Andean Group - April 2018 (ISSN 1741-4466)
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- Introduction
Peru
- PERU: The complex struggle against illegal logging
- PERU: Are Peru’s clean water ambitions being drained?
Ecuador
- ECUADOR: The challenges facing Moreno in building bridges with social movements
Venezuela
- VENEZUELA: Carrots abandoned as region threatens a bigger stick against Maduro
- VENEZUELA: Pdvsa grinds to a halt under military management
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
Peruvian forestry authorities have recently engaged in a series of high-profile seizures of illegally sourced timber, as part of efforts to combat illegal logging.
Andean Group - March 2018 (ISSN 1741-4466)
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- Introduction
Colombia
- Growing concerns over the murder of social leaders in Colombia
Peru
- Agricultural strikes highlight the plight of Peru’s subsistence farmers
Ecuador
- Ecuador’s education reform: challenges and achievements
Venezuela
- Pdvsa’s woes extend
- Skipping town
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
Colombia might have registered its lowest murder rate in four decades last year, but attention has been increasingly focused on the rise in number of murders of social leaders (a catch-all media term for representatives of trade unions, human rights organisations, environmental and land rights groups, community pressure groups and political parties).
Andean Group - February 2018 (ISSN 1741-4466)
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- Introduction
Bolivia
- BOLIVIA: Spoiled ballots win in elections for the Bolivian judiciary
Colombia
- COLOMBIA: Colombia’s illicit crop substitution programme faces criticisms
Peru
- PERU: The continuity of Peru’s extractive development model
Venezuela
- VENEZUELA: The migrant crisis accelerates
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
At the end of last year, Bolivia went to the polls to elect senior members of various judicial bodies, including the supreme justice court (TSJ) and plurinational constitutional court (TCP).
Andean Group - January 2018 (ISSN 1741-4466)
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- Introduction
Colombia
- COLOMBIA: Calls for greater transparency over presidential registration campaigns
- COLOMBIA: Poverty reduction in Colombia – miles behind
Ecuador
- ECUADOR: New site of armed conflict in the region?
Venezuela
- VENEZUELA: Venezuela takes over OPEC presidency
- VENEZUELA: EU sanctions seven senior officials
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
Ahead of the presidential elections due to take place in Colombia this year, the local branch of international anti-corruption NGO Transparency International (TI), Transparencia por Colombia, and the Misión de Observación Electoral (MOE), an association of civil society groups, are seeking to hold Colombian politicians to account over the financing of their nomination campaigns.