Articles

• Economic downturn poses questions for the future

  2 October 2015

  This year’s downturn in commodity prices, especially for minerals like copper, has taken the lustre off Peru’s recent economic achievements. This year growth will still be positive but it will be a far cry from the stellar rates of the past.

• Freed MRTA leader causes stir

  26 September 2015

  After serving his 25-year prison sentence, Peter Cárdenas Schulte was freed on 22 September. He was first convicted following his capture in Lima in 1992 for being a leading member of the MRTA.

• Private companies and the police: recent events in Espinar

  26 September 2015

  The issue of contracts between private companies and the police for security services has been a cause of grave concern now for several years, particularly with regard to the management of protest in the mining sector. The issue has arisen again in Espinar.

• New poverty map

  26 September 2015

  The National Statistic Institute has recently published a new Poverty Map that reveals some interesting changes in the distribution of poverty since the last one in 2009.

• JNE takes Congress to task over parties bill

  21 September 2015

  Faced with the imminence of next year’s general election, the issue of reform to the law governing political parties has gained salience in the Congress, but the draft produced by the congressional constitution commission has been criticised by the electoral authorities as well as specialist NGOs.

• Corruption, drug trafficking and political 'smokescreens'

  21 September 2015

  Increasingly issues of party funding are becoming enmeshed in flows of money from organised crime while, as electioneering is stepped up, politicians of all colours become the subject of accusations of dodgy deals and media manipulation.

• Shades of Right?

  21 September 2015

  If the opinion polls are to be believed, the most plausible candidates for next year’s presidential elections all agree on the same thing: the continuance of the economic model of neo-liberalism to which the government of Alberto Fujimori gave birth in the early 1990s.

• Former vice-minister doubts 'miracle'

  12 September 2015

  José De Echave, formerly vice-minister of the environment under Ollanta Humala, and director of the NGO CooperAcción, has come out with a strongly-worded attack on the ‘flavour’ of announcement by the IMF and World Bank.

• First Lady under fire

  12 September 2015

  Nadine Heredia Alarcón, the wife of President Ollanta Humala, has been under investigation and there have been repeated attempts to link her to Martín Belaunde Lossio. In the past weeks this questioning has intensified.

• The decentralisation of opposition

  12 September 2015

  The recent mobilisation in Loreto in defence of Petroperú and its claim on Block 192 underlines one of the most salient facets of Peruvian politics in the last 15 years: the decentralisation of opposition to the liberal economic agenda of the central government

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