Articles

• APEC and the festival of globalisation

  20 November 2016

  The APEC summit in Lima, which took place on 19-20 November, brought together leaders from around the world, reflecting rather different traditions of capitalism. For President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, the summit was a golden opportunity to be seen hob-nobbing with world leaders and to reassert both his core beliefs in the virtues of international business integration and the need to bin harmful regulatory obstacles to the free-flow of capital.

• Frente Amplio seeks its own registration

  20 November 2016

  Verónika Menoza, candidate for the left-wing Frente Amplio, has announced that as of 2 December she will be spearheading a campaign to collect enough signatures to register a new grouping, known as the Movimiento por el Nuevo Perú, as an official party. To do so will require up to a million signatures.

• Peru hosts APEC

  13 November 2016

  Lima this week (14-20 November) plays host to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. The meeting is of great significance to the Peruvian government’s attempts to get closer to the Asian economies, both as a trade partner and as the recipient of Asian investment. Officials in the Kuczynski administration keenly wait to see what sort of deals emerge.

• Fujimoristas trumpet Trump

  13 November 2016

  The conservatism of Donald J Trump, his populist tendencies purporting to provide the common man with a voice while promising to lower taxes for the rich are being applauded by the followers of Fujimori in Peru. They see him as an outsider who has defeated the political establishment just as Alberto Fujimori did in 1990.

• Ismael Vega reflects on consultation and consent

  13 November 2016

  Ismael Vega from CAAAP, an NGO whose work in the Peruvian Amazon goes back more than 40 years, was the PSG’s special guest speaker at its conference on 5 November. He also addressed a meeting in the House of Lords on 7 November at the invitation of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Human Rights (APPG-HR), as well as leading a seminar on 11 November comparing Peru’s experiences with those of Colombia.

• PPK: the first hundred days

  6 November 2016

  Although an arbitrary metric, the ‘hundred days’ is a useful one. Within this time-frame a new government will have settled in, ministers begun taking policy decisions and the initial optimism surrounding a new administration given way to more balanced and sober assessments. ‘Politics as usual’ should have settled in. So it has been with PPK (President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski) in Peru, who took office on 28 July, although no New Deal seems in prospect.

• Police contracts with mining companies disclosed

  6 November 2016

  The contracts between a number of the largest mining companies and their local police forces for the protection of their mines have been receiving public attention lately, especially following the death from a police bullet of a protester at Las Bambas mine on 14 October. The government has announced that it will “revise the norms” applicable in such agreements.

• Climate change, water and demands for compensation

  6 November 2016

  The increasing demand for water among urban users, irrigated agriculture and extractive industries is exacerbating shortages and leading to public policies that further prejudice the livelihoods of small-scale Andean farmers. Southern Peru provides some graphic examples of this.

• Fire in Cantagallo leaves indigenous migrants bereft

  6 November 2016

  On 4 November, the Shipibo Conibo community that had established itself in a shanty town close to the River Rímac in central Lima was devastated by fire. More than 300 houses were burnt to the ground and more than 1,000 people lost everything they owned.

• Fujimoristas place their own as new BCRP board members

  29 October 2016

  The Fujimorista majority, alongside their allies in APRA, has voted in three new board members of the Central Reserve Bank (BCRP). They include two candidates put forward by Fuerza Popular (FP), José Chlimper and Elmer Cuba, plus Rafael Rey, nominated by APRA members of Congress.

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