Articles

• JNE takes Congress to task over parties bill

  21 September 2015

  Faced with the imminence of next year’s general election, the issue of reform to the law governing political parties has gained salience in the Congress, but the draft produced by the congressional constitution commission has been criticised by the electoral authorities as well as specialist NGOs.

• Corruption, drug trafficking and political 'smokescreens'

  21 September 2015

  Increasingly issues of party funding are becoming enmeshed in flows of money from organised crime while, as electioneering is stepped up, politicians of all colours become the subject of accusations of dodgy deals and media manipulation.

• Shades of Right?

  21 September 2015

  If the opinion polls are to be believed, the most plausible candidates for next year’s presidential elections all agree on the same thing: the continuance of the economic model of neo-liberalism to which the government of Alberto Fujimori gave birth in the early 1990s.

• Former vice-minister doubts 'miracle'

  12 September 2015

  José De Echave, formerly vice-minister of the environment under Ollanta Humala, and director of the NGO CooperAcción, has come out with a strongly-worded attack on the ‘flavour’ of announcement by the IMF and World Bank.

• First Lady under fire

  12 September 2015

  Nadine Heredia Alarcón, the wife of President Ollanta Humala, has been under investigation and there have been repeated attempts to link her to Martín Belaunde Lossio. In the past weeks this questioning has intensified.

• The decentralisation of opposition

  12 September 2015

  The recent mobilisation in Loreto in defence of Petroperú and its claim on Block 192 underlines one of the most salient facets of Peruvian politics in the last 15 years: the decentralisation of opposition to the liberal economic agenda of the central government

• Block 192: Government in disarray; indigenous indignant

  7 September 2015

  Peru’s government and its Congress appear to be at loggerheads over control of Block 192, the country’s main onshore source of crude. The issue throws into question the government’s whole approach to prior consultation.

• Socialising mining

  7 September 2015

  Teams of people are being dispatched by a PR company called Interprod to deliver glossy leaflets and to canvass opinion, about Southern Peru's proposed Tía María mine, among the majority of households in Cocachacra, Deán Valdivia and Punta de Bombón districts of Islay province.

• 'We are not neutral': National Human Rights Coordinator releases its Annual Report

  30 August 2015

  The National Human Rights Coordinator (Coordinadora Nacional de los Derechos Humanos) has published its annual report for 2014-15 and it makes for sober reading.

• Mendoza's announcement; a step towards unity on the left?

  30 August 2015

  The announcement by Veronika Mendoza earlier this month that she intends to run for president is but the first shot in what looks likely to be a fractious battle to see who (if anyone) emerges as the candidate for the left.

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