Articles

• Fujimoristas hold key to ombudsman election

  3 September 2016

  Congress has once again announced that it will formally appoint a new human rights ombudsman next Tuesday, 6 September. The current ombudsman, Eduardo Vega, has led the institution ably despite being hamstrung by a protracted ‘interim’ status.

• Historic ruling on Accomarca

  3 September 2016

  On 1 September, the long-running judicial process on the case of 73 campesinos brutally assassinated by the army in 1985 finally came to a conclusion. Jurors found the military commanders that gave the order guilty of murder, alongside the officers who implemented the order and some of the soldiers involved.

• Transparencia and its 32 proposals

  27 August 2016

  With the elections over, the new government installed, and a cabinet recently approved by the Congress, it is time to think once again about reforms to the electoral system to avoid the sort of problems that emerged over the course of 2016.

• Mining its way to economic success: an old strategy reinvented for a new president

  27 August 2016

  Peru has long depended on its diverse, ample natural resource base for economic growth, and its newly-elected President plans to continue with that model. President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was elected on a platform that promised to encourage economic growth, growth he intends to achieve through increased mining revenues.

• Parliament or president: who rules?

  20 August 2016

  The strong vote of confidence by Congress on 19 August in the cabinet of Fernando Zavala, Peru’s new prime minister, is but the first of probably many hurdles that the Kuczynski administration will need to clear in what promises to be a troubled relationship between the legislature and the executive over the next five years.

• Zavala's speech: culture at the centre of policy

  20 August 2016

  Prime Minister Fernando Zavala has promised that his cabinet will place culture centre stage. In his first speech to Congress on 18 August, he vowed to ensure that the culture ministry is properly funded and that the government would promote culture, not only protecting Peru’s historical legacy but also funding new cultural initiatives.

• Supreme Court finds in favour of Fujimori

  20 August 2016

  Lawyers for former president Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a lengthy sentence for corruption and human rights violation, are jubilant at the verdict of the Supreme Court which, on 16 August, found Fujimori not guilty of using public money to fund the gutter press in the build-up to the 2000 elections. The public prosecutor’s office (fiscalía) had demanded an eight-year sentence.

• Report: 'Towards a New Vision for Mining in Peru in 2030'

  20 August 2016

  An important document under this title was presented at the ‘Congreso Internacional de Relacones Comunitarias’ held in Lima 17-19 August. The document comprises two parts: first a ‘vision statement’ prepared by the Driving Group, and second a first-rate, comprehensive and concise background paper on mining and its prospects in Peru prepared by the Sustainable Minerals Institute at the University of Queensland, Australia.

• PPK's wish-list

  29 July 2016

  In his inaugural address on 28 July, newly-elected President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski called for unity, laying out his vision for Peru for the forthcoming five years. He presented his dream of a more modern and equitable country by the time that Peru celebrates the bicentenary of its independence in 2021.

• Two-thirds majority

  29 July 2016

  When it finally came to electing Luz Salgado, a Fujimori traditionalist, as president of Congress for the forthcoming year, APRA and Alianza para el Progreso (of César Acuña) threw their lot in with Fuerza Popular (FP), with Ricard Acuña (APP) and Elías Rodríguez (APRA) sharing in the presidency. So it was that Salgado received 87 votes (out of 130), more than two-thirds.

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