Articles

• How wide and what sort of front?

  11 September 2016

  With its second national congress planned for later this month, new internal tensions threaten to sink the left-wing Frente Amplio (FA). These follow the announcement by the leadership of Tierra y Libertad (TyL) last week, withdrawing support for three of its delegates on the FA: Pedro Francke, Marisa Glave and Irma Pflucker.

• Extractive governance: the importance of the sub-national

  11 September 2016

  A seminar was held in London on this topic on Friday 9 September at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), jointly sponsored by the ODI and the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI). The principal aim was to present significant work carried out over the last eight years by the NRGI on the topic, based on country studies including Peru.

• PPK's next hurdle: delegated powers

  3 September 2016

  Having cleared its first major hurdle – winning a vote of confidence in the new cabinet led by Fernando Zavala, the Kuczynski administration now faces its next one: winning parliamentary support for a raft of measures designed to tackle problems of the economy and security.

• Fujimoristas hold key to ombudsman election

  3 September 2016

  Congress has once again announced that it will formally appoint a new human rights ombudsman next Tuesday, 6 September. The current ombudsman, Eduardo Vega, has led the institution ably despite being hamstrung by a protracted ‘interim’ status.

• Historic ruling on Accomarca

  3 September 2016

  On 1 September, the long-running judicial process on the case of 73 campesinos brutally assassinated by the army in 1985 finally came to a conclusion. Jurors found the military commanders that gave the order guilty of murder, alongside the officers who implemented the order and some of the soldiers involved.

• Transparencia and its 32 proposals

  27 August 2016

  With the elections over, the new government installed, and a cabinet recently approved by the Congress, it is time to think once again about reforms to the electoral system to avoid the sort of problems that emerged over the course of 2016.

• Mining its way to economic success: an old strategy reinvented for a new president

  27 August 2016

  Peru has long depended on its diverse, ample natural resource base for economic growth, and its newly-elected President plans to continue with that model. President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was elected on a platform that promised to encourage economic growth, growth he intends to achieve through increased mining revenues.

• Parliament or president: who rules?

  20 August 2016

  The strong vote of confidence by Congress on 19 August in the cabinet of Fernando Zavala, Peru’s new prime minister, is but the first of probably many hurdles that the Kuczynski administration will need to clear in what promises to be a troubled relationship between the legislature and the executive over the next five years.

• Zavala's speech: culture at the centre of policy

  20 August 2016

  Prime Minister Fernando Zavala has promised that his cabinet will place culture centre stage. In his first speech to Congress on 18 August, he vowed to ensure that the culture ministry is properly funded and that the government would promote culture, not only protecting Peru’s historical legacy but also funding new cultural initiatives.

• Supreme Court finds in favour of Fujimori

  20 August 2016

  Lawyers for former president Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a lengthy sentence for corruption and human rights violation, are jubilant at the verdict of the Supreme Court which, on 16 August, found Fujimori not guilty of using public money to fund the gutter press in the build-up to the 2000 elections. The public prosecutor’s office (fiscalía) had demanded an eight-year sentence.

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