FREE MOVEMENT IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE ANDEAN COMMUNITY

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The Andean Community has concentrated its efforts on strengthening commercial and economic integration, leaving both the social and human rights aspects in the background, until recently. The road to the creation of a common Andean market has allowed us to make progress in the sector of the development of certain rights and freedoms; in particular those relating to migration, starting from the principle of the free movement of people.

At the origin of Andean integration, the free movement of people is linked to the objective of creating a common Latin American market, based on the four fundamental freedoms of movement: goods; services; capital; people. The free movement of people, both internally and externally, was not addressed as a topic until recently, when the 1st Andean Forum on Migration was held in 2008.

The Cartagena Agreement, the Treaty establishing Andean integration, does not make direct reference to the free movement of people, in any of its capacities: workers, tourists or students. The first community rules, which promote the right to free movement, in particular of workers, date back to the first decade of Andean integration.