Andean Group - November 2024

Colombia’s military recaptured the small town of El Plateado on 12 October, ending a six-year period in which the town, in Argelia municipality, Cauca department, was not under the control of the state.... Read More

The Colombian military recaptured the small town of El Plateado on 12 October, ending a six-year period in which the town, in Argelia municipality, Cauca department, was not under the control of the state.... Read More

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro had hoped to showcase a more peaceful and prosperous country on the path to socio-economic equality and environmental sustainability as it hosted the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP16) in late October.... Read More

Peruvian transport workers ground the capital Lima to a halt for several days in September and October as they went on strike to demand urgent action against extortion by criminal gangs.... Read More

In September, artisanal fishing associations in the north of Peru warned that a shortage of Humboldt squid (the most important type of squid worldwide for commercial fisheries) was due to the incursion of Chinese fishing boats into Peruvian territory.... Read More

In late September, Bolivia’s state hydrocarbons company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) announced that the country had ceased to export natural gas to Argentina, ending an arrangement that began in the 1970s and had been strengthened by a contract initially signed in 2006 for a period of twenty years.... Read More

Ecuador’s national assembly voted on 1 October to approve new regulations that will govern the use and ownership of firearms.... Read More

ECUADOR | New energy law approved by congress.... Read More