Articles

• Leaked TPP document sparks row over foreign investment privileges

  30 March 2015

  The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is being negotiated between Peru and eleven other countries (including the United States). Last week, Wikileaks published a draft text of the chapter on investment to a number of newspapers in TPP aspirant countries, including Peru’s La República. The text expands on the faculties granted by Peru to foreign investors under the provisions of the FTA with the United States. It allows, for instance, for arbitration by international mediators in investment disputes even while local courts may still be engaged in seeking settlements.

• Environmental protests lead to 'scrapping' of Tia Maria

  30 March 2015

  An 'indefinite' strike was called on Monday, March 23 against the Tia María copper and silver mining project in the Valle del Tambo in the Arequipa region of southern Peru. Demonstrators blocked the Pan American highway and violent clashes followed with the police. There appear to have been some injuries. On the following Friday (March 27) came a shock announcement from the company, Southern Peru Copper, that it was scrapping the project and terminating its investment in the area.

• Andahuaylas electricity protest

  22 March 2015

  Andahualas last week made news when, after six days of protest by locals against a huge hike in electricity prices, the government finally intervened to cancel the increase.

• Petroperú sidelined

  22 March 2015

  The abrupt dismissal last week of the president of Petroperú, appears to put an end to a long-running argument as to whether the state oil company should actually be involved in producing crude. Its role now seems destined to be no more than a refiner of largely imported crude for the domestic market.

• Step backwards on torture in Peru

  15 March 2015

  Following lengthy delays in ratifying the Peruvian Ombudsman’s Office as the ‘National Preventive Mechanism’ (NPM) against the use of torture, the Humala government has now refused to enact the necessary legislation to enable this to happen.

• Culture wars in Congress

  15 March 2015

  Congress has been the epicentre for discussion of two important issues in the last couple of weeks both related to gender in Peru. One was the passing of the law against public harassment (ley de acoso cajellero) and the other the shelving of a bill for civil union between same-sex couples (unión civil).

• Who's who among the Peruvian billionaires

  15 March 2015

  Six super-wealthy Peruvians are included in the latest edition of the Forbes ranking of the world’s richest individuals.

• He who pays the piper...

  2 March 2015

  The sources of party funding have long been obscure in Peru, and the interests of democracy demand much greater clarity on this issue. With only a year to go before the 2016 election campaign, and with the costs of mounting presidential campaigns constantly increasing, there are growing demands for measures to force candidates to come clean about where they receive their money.

• Business as usual? Some new developments in evaluation of corporate human rights accountability

  2 March 2015

  Massive transnational corporate investment and growth in the private sector has helped turn Peru into one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America. But lurking behind this positive trend, is a harsh reality of grievous human rights abuse committed by corporations against the people to whom they should be accountable.

• Cabinet patching: four ministers down, but how many more reshuffles to go?

  22 February 2015

  Partial cabinet reshuffle, four ministers sacked . . . . Hardly an attention-grabbing headline for an administration now famous for announcing cabinet changes every few months. Pressure on the government had been building up ever since the repeal of the so-called ‘Ley Pulpí. But the latest appointments, announced on February 9, provide the Humala government with much-needed respite.

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