Articles

• An agenda to combat inequality

  15 February 2016

  Oxfam Peru this week published a challenging paper asking all candidates in the election, and all in charge of public policy, to consider how to tackle inequality.

• Oxfam report into palm oil deforestation

  15 February 2016

  Palm oil plantations in the Amazon jungle of Peru are fast expanding at the expense of primary rain forest according to a new report produced by Oxfam. Medium-sized and large-scale producers are moving in, taking advantage of the lack of clarity in existing legislation and the institutional weaknesses of the state on the ground.

• Guzmán: the insider outsider

  7 February 2016

  In an opinion poll conducted by GfK for the La República newspaper and revealed on the evening of 31 January, Juli Guzmán saw a dramatic increase in his popularity. In a single month, he jumped from 2% in voters’ ranking of preference to 10.4%.

• Can Fujimorismo change its spots?

  7 February 2016

  The political analyst Carlos Meléndez strikes a sceptical note about the much-vaunted shift in the nature of Fujimorismo following on from Keiko Fujimori’s well publicised address at Harvard University last autumn.

• Campaign: plagiarism charges could impact on Acuña

  1 February 2016

  With several new opinion polls due to be published in the immediate future, it looks like being an important week ahead in the race for the presidency. The fight for the middle ground separating Keiko Fujimori and the relatively large numbers of ‘also rans’ is intensifying.

• Presidential campaigning and extractives

  1 February 2016

  The issue of extractives has entered the presidential campaign debate with force. As an exporter of primary materials products vulnerable to large variations in prices, the role these play in the economy is never far from public attention, particularly with respect to social conflicts they often generate.

• Conflict on all sides: HudBay, the Constancia mine and promised dialogue.

  1 February 2016

  The Canadian-owned Constancia mine in Chumbivilcano, near Cusco, is once again in the news. A 72-hour strike was called this week by the Frente Unico de Defensa de los Intereses de Velille, in protest at what they see as the company's failure, over two years, to hold serious talks over its environmental and social responsibilities.

• Memories from the other side

  1 February 2016

  The Place of Memory opened its doors to the Peruvian public at the end of last year as part of an effort to socialise, at least to a limeño public, memories of victims in the 20-year long war between Sendero Luminoso and the Peruvian armed forces.

• Elections: the challenge of the micro-candidates

  24 January 2016

  Experience in previous presidential elections in Peru suggests that, to win, the most important thing is to reach the second round on an ascending popularity curve. Since 1990 it has been possible for candidates who only months previously were polling in single digits and who were written off as ‘no hopers’, not only reach to reach the second round but, indeed to win the presidency.

• Campaign picks up on prior consultation

  24 January 2016

  The important topic of Prior Consultation (consulta previa) of indigenous peoples has been usefully brought into the foreground of the electoral debate this last week.

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