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Andean Group - May 2021
Introduction
The relationship between South American and Mexican drug trafficking organisations (DTOs) has been transformed in recent years, according to the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB)’s annual report.... Read More
Colombia/Region
The relationship between South American and Mexican drug trafficking organisations (DTOs) – a crucial link in the international narcotics trade – has been transformed in recent years, according to the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB)’s annual report.... Read More
Bolivia
The arrest in March of Bolivia’s former interim president Jeanine Áñez (2019-2020) and other high-ranking officials from her administration has reignited familiar concerns over judicial independence in Bolivia.... Read More
Peru
Peru’s national anti-drugs agency (Devida) was recently forced to correct the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB)’s annual report, published in March, which mistakenly claimed that Peru had not monitored illegal coca cultivation in 2018 and 2019.... Read More
Venezuela
Juan Carlos Montesinos, the president of a Venezuelan small-scale farmers’ association, Asociación Venezolana de Agricultura Familiar (Avaf), warned on 21 April that diesel shortages were leading to a loss of 3m litres of milk and 25,000 tonnes (t) of food a week.... Read More
Ecuador
On 11 April the former banker, Guillermo Lasso, was elected as the next president of Ecuador, defeating his left-wing correísta rival, Andrés Arauz, by 52.4%-47.6% in a far more decisive victory than pre-election polls had anticipated.... Read More
Colombia
On 8 April, the ninth meeting of the Colombian council for the ‘orange economy’ (creative and cultural sectors) took place in the country’s capital, Bogotá.... Read More
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