Articles

• Toledo accused of receiving US$20 million in bribes

  5 February 2017

  According to testimony from senior Odebrecht executives gained through plea bargaining, the Brazilian construction company paid former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo US$20 million in bribes to secure contracts to build the Inter-Oceanic highway linking Peru and Brazil. The money was paid through a series of offshore accounts between 2005 and 2008.

• Cuzco airport row: addendums, Public Private Partnerships and construction delays

  5 February 2017

  After a week of uncertainties over the future construction of Chincheros airport in Cuzco, President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski laid the first stone on 3 February. Earlier in the week, following a fierce row over the funding arrangements, the future of Chincheros was placed in doubt.

• Lima awash with flood waters, corruption allegations

  28 January 2017

  Last week was a difficult one, both for many Peruvians and for their government. Flooding affected large swaths of the coast, not least in Ica and Lima. At the same time, the backwash from the Brazilian Car Wash (Lava Jato) scandal continued to concentrate media attention.

• New strategy to manage illegal mining

  28 January 2017

  The government is implementing what is being described as a ‘carrot and stick’ policy with respect to illicit mining operations.

• Kuczynski faces challenging times

  22 January 2017

  President Kuczynski’s honeymoon seems to have been fleeting; having passed the first 100 days in office, he is facing falling popularity ratings and the perception that his is government is fundamentally weak. His popularity has fallen eight points from 53% in December to 45% in January, and his disapproval rating is now slightly higher than that of approval.

• EITI praise for Peru, but...

  22 January 2017

  The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has just announced its ‘rating’ of Peru’s transparency for the country’s procedures and data against which the EITI’s new and tighter standard introduced in 2016 is measured. Of the 51 countries that have signed up to the EITI, only five, including Peru, achieved at most ‘meaningful progress’.

• BHRRC takes companies to task on human rights

  15 January 2017

  The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre puts Peru among the countries in which human rights defenders (HRDs) are most at risk. It issued its Latin America Briefing earlier this month. Publication was timed to provide an input for the Second Regional Consultation on Firms and Human Rights in Santiago on 17-19 January. 

• Petroperú to be privatised by the back door?

  15 January 2017

  The announcement last week that the government is considering selling off Petroperú’s headquarters in San Isidro has set alarm bells ringing that this portends the privatisation of the state oil company.

• Congressional Commission to investigate Odebrecht bribery scandal

  9 Janaury 2017

  On 4 January, a congressional commission was created to deal with the accusations of illegal payments to government officials by Odebrecht, the Brazilian construction company. Congressman Víctor Albrecht has been selected to lead the commission.The government has reached an agreement with Odebrecht to provide relevant information.

• Strategy for dealing with conflicts?

  9 January 2017

  As 2017 dawns, the conflictive inheritance from 2016 makes itself felt. The latest figures from the Ombudsman’s Office (Defensoría del Pueblo) show that there were no less than 213 conflicts as of the end of last November, the great majority classified as ‘social-environmental’ and most of these to do with mining.

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