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Andean Community
Coverage of Andean Community in the Nexus archive.
- South American trade bloc’s top court takes up unprecedented Peru illegal mining case
The Andean Court of Justice has admitted a case against Peru for alleged failures to combat illegal mining, marking the first time the court will assess a member state's compliance with regional obligations on this issue. The lawsuit challenges Peru's repeated extensions of the REINFO mining formalization program, which critics argue allow illegal operations to continue under temporary legal protection, harming the Amazon environment and Indigenous communities.