Articles

• The election: what's left?

  6 June 2016

  In many ways, the Peruvian election has proved a shot in the arm for the Peruvian left. It is by far the best electoral result for the left in the last 30 years

• Analysis of first round voting

  6 June 2016

  We include a reference here to a very useful article published in the Washington Post by Tomás Dosek and Martiza Paredes on the background to the second round.

• Camisea: Report slams its social impacts

  6 June 2016

  In a piece written for The Guardian, David Hill picks up on an annual report written by a panel of experts on impacts at the Camisea gasfields.

• Keiko under sustained attack over Ramírez drug scandal

  30 May 2016

  With one week to go until the second round, Keiko Fujimori continues to be surrounded by problematic figures. The scandal of Joaquín Ramírez has now escalated to include her vice-presidential candidate and spokesman, José Chlimper.

• Bad week for Keiko

  22 May 2016

  --- Fuerza Popular boss steps aside over drug allegations

  --- Keiko and husband under investigation

  --- Death in Puno

• Rapporteurs take up indigenous rights issues

  16 May 2016

  The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,  the UN Special Rapporteur on Toxic Waste, and the Inter-American Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, all met in Lima last week to take part in an international seminar on indigenous peoples and international trade.

• The battle for the 12%

  16 May 2016

  With only twenty days to go to the second round vote, it is still not clear who will finally win the presidential elections. On 13 May pollsters CPI gave Keiko Fujimori a five-point lead in their latest poll. On 15 May, Ipsos-Apoyo had them neck-to-neck at 44.1% to 43.8%, with 12.1% still undecided. Irrespective of which poll provides a better reflection of reality, these are the 12% that Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski need to convince.

• Tanaka's election take

  7 May 2016

  The election campaign has been full of surprises, and more may be in store. This was the central message of a talk given by Martín Tanaka to Peruvian students in Oxford this week. Polls still put Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Keiko Fujimori neck and neck in voter preferences. A GfK poll this week put Kuczynski marginally ahead with 50.1% to Keiko’s 49.9%.

• Election of an ombudsman

  7 May 2016

  Once again Congress is scheduled to make a final vote on a new human rights Ombudsman, this time on 18 May. The preliminaries being over, Congress has proposed two candidates for the position: the sitting interim Ombudsman, Eduardo Vega, and the jurist and former member of both the National Council of Magistrates (CNM) and the National Jury of Elections (JNE), Gastón Soto Vallenas.

• And what is Fujimorismo today?

  1 May 2016

  The electoral advance of the Fuerza Popular in the 10 April elections raises the question – a key topic in the ongoing fight for the presidency – as to what Fujimorismo is 16 years on from the collapse of the regime of Alberto Fujimori in 2000.

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