Articles

• Inter-American Commission considers Tintaya complaints

  24 April 2016

  On 8 April, in Washington, representatives of indigenous and human rights organizations attended a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the ‘Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Campesino Communities in Espinar, Cusco, Peru’.

• Can dialogue happen at Las Bambas?

  17 April 2016

  The all-important Mesa de Dialogo at the Las Bambas mine is due to resume on Thursday 21 April. However, the situation remains confused and tense. A fresh strike has been declared in Challhuahuacho.

• Second round to be disputed by right-leaning candidates

  17 April 2016

  On 10 April, Peruvians went to the polls and voted in favour of right-leaning candidates Keiko Fujimori (KF) and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK). Third in the run-off was left-leading congresswoman for Cuzco, Verónika Mendoza (VM).

• Elections: photo finish in first round

  9 April 2016

  Peruvians go to the polls this Sunday, 10 April. As we went to press, it was still far from clear who would be participating in the probable run-off on 5 June. In spite of a comfortable lead, with around 33%, Keiko Fujimori was unlikely to obtain the 50% +1 to prevent a run-off. The race for second place looked like being neck-and-neck between investor-friendly Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK) and leftist congresswoman from Cuzco, Verónika Mendoza.

• Election Special Newsletter

  30 March 2016

  Since restoring democratic government in 2001, Peru has seen four presidential and congressional election contests, the latest of which takes place on 10 April. Four successive elections represent a first in Peru’s republican history, dominated as it has been by military and/or authoritarian governments, and/or ones elected on a very restrictive franchise. This is a success for democracy.

• Candidates and their plans for Amazonia

  20 March 2016

  What the five leading candidates in the presidential race and their parties say they will do in respect to key concerns for communities living in the Amazon jungle.

• Election: Keiko Fujimori fighting not to be excluded

  20 March 2016

  With just three weeks to go until election day, it is even still unclear who will be the participants. And the more days pass, the more responsibility the electoral authorities will have to shoulder for what seems to many a shambolic situation.

• Amnesty International petition

  20 March 2016

  We have received the following petition from Graham Minter at Amnesty regarding human rights and the Peruvian elections.

• Urresti out too

  13 March 2016

  The Partido Nacionalista Peruano (PNP) announced on 11 March that it was withdrawing its presidential candidate, Daniel Urresti, alongside its candidates for the vice-presidency, for Congress and for the Andean Parliament.

• Acuña and Guzmán: victims of the ides of March

  13 March 2016

  Last week’s decision by the Jurado Nacional de Elecciones (JNE) to exclude two candidates casts a shadow over the electoral process with less than a month to go before the first round on 10 April. The JNE, responding to appeals against rulings by a lower-ranking electoral tribunal, opted to bar both Julio Guzmán and César Acuña from the presidential race.

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