Articles

• Requiem for an old party?

  27 February 2016

  It is always dangerous to write off a political party, especially in the heat of an election campaign. But Alan García’s lowly ratings in all the main opinion polls suggest that APRA, Peru’s oldest mass-based political party, is reaching a very low point in its political fortunes.

• Most candidates colour-blind when it comes to seeing green

  20 February2016

  With the attention of the political world in Lima focused on the Guzmán case and the role of the controversial ruling of the JNE, key issues in the election, such as the fate of the environment in Peru, are being largely ignored.

• Guzman's candidacy put on ice

  20 February 2016

  Although not yet formally barred from participating in the presidential elections, Julio Guzmán’s candidacy has been put on ice, and there is growing concern in Lima that he may not be allowed to participate. The National Electoral Jury decided on 16 February by three-votes-to-two that Guzmán’s Party ‘Todos Para Perú’  had failed to follow proper procedures when presenting his candidacy.

• Forced sterilizations: no report until after elections

  15 February 2016

  The results of the judicial investigation against former president Alberto Fujimori and his three health ministers responsible for the forced sterilisation programme in the mid 1990s have been postponed for a further 150 days, ensuring that the results will not be available until after the election campaign is over.

• Elections: Guzmán closes in on second place

  15 February 2016

  With less than two months to the first round of elections, the coveted second position is looking more attainable for self-proclaimed ‘outsider’ Julio Guzmán.

• An agenda to combat inequality

  15 February 2016

  Oxfam Peru this week published a challenging paper asking all candidates in the election, and all in charge of public policy, to consider how to tackle inequality.

• Oxfam report into palm oil deforestation

  15 February 2016

  Palm oil plantations in the Amazon jungle of Peru are fast expanding at the expense of primary rain forest according to a new report produced by Oxfam. Medium-sized and large-scale producers are moving in, taking advantage of the lack of clarity in existing legislation and the institutional weaknesses of the state on the ground.

• Guzmán: the insider outsider

  7 February 2016

  In an opinion poll conducted by GfK for the La República newspaper and revealed on the evening of 31 January, Juli Guzmán saw a dramatic increase in his popularity. In a single month, he jumped from 2% in voters’ ranking of preference to 10.4%.

• Can Fujimorismo change its spots?

  7 February 2016

  The political analyst Carlos Meléndez strikes a sceptical note about the much-vaunted shift in the nature of Fujimorismo following on from Keiko Fujimori’s well publicised address at Harvard University last autumn.

• Campaign: plagiarism charges could impact on Acuña

  1 February 2016

  With several new opinion polls due to be published in the immediate future, it looks like being an important week ahead in the race for the presidency. The fight for the middle ground separating Keiko Fujimori and the relatively large numbers of ‘also rans’ is intensifying.

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