Articles

• Congress versus Saavedra

  4 December 2016

  Following weeks of speculation, the official questioning (interpelación) of Education Minister Jaime Savedra has been approved by Congress and is due to take place on 7 December. He faces legislators over accusations about alleged mismanagement of computer procurement and delays in preparations for the Pan-American Games.

• Drought in the highlands

  4 December 2016

  Lack of rain in the Andes has caused serious problems of water supply, with the government declaring on 28 November a state of emergency in 37 river basins from Piura in the north to Tacna in the south.

• Espinar: the use and abuse of dialogue forums

  4 December 2016

  We recently reported on an agreement reached in Espinar, Cuzco, between the government and representatives of the local community, in the three-year-old saga of the dialogue forum (mesa de diálogo) there.

• Nadine Heredia's FAO posting causes ructions

  27 November 2016

  On 24 November, Nadine Heredia, the former first lady, travelled to Geneva to take up a posting with the United Nations Food Programme. In Peru, the reaction was immediate. Not only did many politicians demand she return to Lima but even the foreign ministry requested her post be rescinded.

• Rio Blanco returns to the front line

  27 November 2016

  An agreement appears to have been reached between the Peruvian government and the Chinese Xiamen Zijin Investment Development Corporation to push ahead with the development phase of Rio Blanco. This is potentially one of the world’s biggest copper mines, but it has met with consistent opposition from the highland communities of northern Piura region.

• Some good news from Espinar?

  27 November 2016

  A long-running issue in the field of mining and human rights has taken what may be a significant step forward. Senior government officials appear to have agreed to building health facilities in Espinar to deal with problems arising from mining there.

• APEC and the festival of globalisation

  20 November 2016

  The APEC summit in Lima, which took place on 19-20 November, brought together leaders from around the world, reflecting rather different traditions of capitalism. For President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, the summit was a golden opportunity to be seen hob-nobbing with world leaders and to reassert both his core beliefs in the virtues of international business integration and the need to bin harmful regulatory obstacles to the free-flow of capital.

• Frente Amplio seeks its own registration

  20 November 2016

  Verónika Menoza, candidate for the left-wing Frente Amplio, has announced that as of 2 December she will be spearheading a campaign to collect enough signatures to register a new grouping, known as the Movimiento por el Nuevo Perú, as an official party. To do so will require up to a million signatures.

• Peru hosts APEC

  13 November 2016

  Lima this week (14-20 November) plays host to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. The meeting is of great significance to the Peruvian government’s attempts to get closer to the Asian economies, both as a trade partner and as the recipient of Asian investment. Officials in the Kuczynski administration keenly wait to see what sort of deals emerge.

• Fujimoristas trumpet Trump

  13 November 2016

  The conservatism of Donald J Trump, his populist tendencies purporting to provide the common man with a voice while promising to lower taxes for the rich are being applauded by the followers of Fujimori in Peru. They see him as an outsider who has defeated the political establishment just as Alberto Fujimori did in 1990.

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