Articles

• Las Bambas: Vizcarra contributes to the reduction of tension

  24 October 2016

  A visit by Martín Vizcarra, Peru’s vice-president, to Las Bambas on 22 October sought to resolve the stand-off between communities and MMG mining over the transshipment of minerals through community lands. Vizcarra promised to look into the problems that have arisen during a 45-day truce, but a number of the communities most directly involved have so far refused to lift their road blocks preventing mineral cargos leaving the mine for the port of Mollendo.

• Kuczynski vows to fight corruption

  24 October 2016

  Still reeling from the corruption scandal created by his former health advisor, Carlos Moreno, Kuczynski announced five measures on 17 October to fight corruption nationwide. This had been a key priority in his address to the nation on 28 July. But barely three months later, he faces a crisis of confidence on this matter. Many perceive his choice of Moreno as an advisor as deeply problematic.

• Snipping the SNIP

  16 October 2016

  The Kuzynski government has announced that it will be getting rid of the Sistema Nacional de Inversión Pública (SNIP), the system by which the Ministry of Economy and Finance controls the selection of projects to be implemented by sub-national tiers of government.

• Corruption scandal continues to impact government

  16 October 2016

  However much the president and his prime minister have attempted to distance themselves from the disgraced Carlos Moreno (see last week’s PSG newsletter), the repercussions keep coming. There has been continued scrutiny as to how and why Moreno was allowed such access to the president when there were already many murmurings about how he conducted his business. Just how the audiotape was made of Moreno discussing his intention to profit from the heath system has also been a matter conjecture.

• Communities blockade River Marañón in protest at oil spills

  10 October 2016

  The Federation of Native Communities from Alto Tigre (Feconat) has called upon Rolando Luque, the newly-appointed head of the Oficina Nacional de Dialogo y Sostenibilidad (ONDS), to visit the communities affected by the oil spills in the Amazon. Luque says he will do so in due course, specifically the town of Saramurillo, one of the communities most affected, in the hope that the communities accept his visit as a sign of the government’s good faith.

• El Frontón: justice awaits

  10 October 2016

  Thirty years after the extra-judicial killing of 133 prisoners at the island detention centre of El Frontón, six officers and 29 ordinary sailors face trial. While judicial procedures have been attempted before, they have always been halted before sentencing took place.

• Progress on Las Bambas

  10 October 2016

  Some progress to report on Las Bambas. Last week, an agreement was reached to pave 83 kms of road running through community lands in the region of the Las Bambas mine in Apurímac.

• Congress approves delegation, but for 90 days only

  2 October 2016

  On 29 September, following nine hours of parliamentary debate, Congress approved by substantial majorities the proposals put to it by the Kuczynski administration giving the latter the power to legislate on a number of areas.

• Frente Amplio's second congress left key issue unresolved

  2 October 2016

  The second congress of Frente Amplio (FA), held in Villa El Salvador on 24-25 September, reflected some of the important advances made on the left this year. But the way ahead for the FA looks to be a long and winding one.

• New book points to shortcomings of mesas de diálogo

  24 September 2016

  Oxfam and the the Peruvian NGO Cooperacción have together published “Conviviendo con la minería en el Sur Andino”, a book that analyses the experiences of three negotiating forums (mesas de diálogo) convened to mitigate social conflicts. The study focuses on the southern Andean region where, it is estimated, more than half of Peru’s mining investment is concentrated.

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