Articles

• All eyes on the public prosecutor

  27 February 2017

  Busy times for Peru’s public prosecutor, with former first lady Nadine Heredia joining Alejandro Toledo in the line of those accused of receiving funds from Odebrecht. Tricky times too in managing to maintain judicial impartiality when faced with a whirlwind of politically-inspired gossip and innuendo.

• From macro-corruption to the micro

  27 February

  While the public prosecutor’s office struggles with problems of macro-corruption, other forms of corruption (which could be termed ‘micro-corruption’) are an everyday occurrence in the pursuit of resources to realise small-scale public sector investment at the local level.

• Ombudsman issues a damning report on the regulation of environmental impacts

  27 February 2017

  The Peruvian Obudsman’s office, the Defensoria del Pueblo, has just published a noteworthy piece of work. In 266 pages it reviews in great detail how far the national legal framework for monitoring the environmental effects of economic activity is ‘fit for purpose’. It concludes with 64 recommendations directed at specific agents in the public sector in all its relevant spheres.

• Chinese mining standards come under scrutiny

  18 February 2017

  A seminar organised by the Congress (in conjunction with Cooperacción, Oxfam and IISCAL) on 17 February provided a timely opportunity to discuss the environmental and social standards applicable to Chinese investments in Peru.

• Government legislative decrees may threaten indigenous land rights

  18 February 2017

  Analysis of the 112 legislative decrees passed by the executive in the 90 days leading up to 6 January have been undertakenby indigenous and human rights organisations which have assessed the implications of some of these decrees for the most vulnerable populations.

• The Quipu Project

  18 February 2017

  This week we are including links to the Quipu Project, this ‘living documentary’ created by a group for people in Peru and in the United Kingdom. The project aims to provide a resource for those who were forcefully sterilised in Peru during the 1990s.

• Toledo arrest warrant issued

  11 February 2017

  On 9 February, the Peruvian courts issued an international warrant for the arrest of former president Alejandro Toledo (2001-06). Toledo was named as having received US$20 million in bribes from a Brazilian construction company. Toledo has maintained his innocence of the charges against him.

• The ABC of exercising influence

  11 February 2017

  Writing in the business newspaper Gestión, Manuel Romero Caro outlines the various strategies used by Odebrecht (and probably other companies of the same ilk) in influencing government decisions in its favour.

• Toledo accused of receiving US$20 million in bribes

  5 February 2017

  According to testimony from senior Odebrecht executives gained through plea bargaining, the Brazilian construction company paid former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo US$20 million in bribes to secure contracts to build the Inter-Oceanic highway linking Peru and Brazil. The money was paid through a series of offshore accounts between 2005 and 2008.

• Cuzco airport row: addendums, Public Private Partnerships and construction delays

  5 February 2017

  After a week of uncertainties over the future construction of Chincheros airport in Cuzco, President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski laid the first stone on 3 February. Earlier in the week, following a fierce row over the funding arrangements, the future of Chincheros was placed in doubt.

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