Articles

• Indigenous communities fear new hydrocarbons bill

  24 February 2018

  A proposed law before Congress to regulate investment in the hydrocarbon sector is currently causing concern among indigenous groups vulnerable to oil development.

• Peru sets out human rights plan

  17 February 2018

  The Peruvian government approved its National Human Rights Plan (2018-2021) on 1 February. Its purpose is to provide a strategy document that “seeks to guarantee the implementation of public policies in favour of groups that require special attention”. Civil society organisations point out that there was little consultation in the development of this plan

• Prior consultation: how it has worked in practice

  17 February 2018

  A workshop has been meeting in Lima to look at implementation of prior consultation (consulta previa) procedures. No less than 36 representatives of national indigenous organizations were present at the meeting, Their task: to evaluate the use of the prior consultation (consulta previa) over the six years since it became law.

• Premier threatens to block Maduro visit

  17 February 2018

  Prime Minister Mercedes Aráoz’s announcement that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will be physically blocked from attending April’s hemispheric summit in Lima further ramps up Peru’s defiant posture in relation to Venezuela.

• Renewed protest in Loreto over oil spill damage

  11 February 2018

  Eighteen organisations representing many of the indigenous communities affected by oil spills from the leaky and badly-maintained Northern Peru pipeline have started a protest a year after the signing of the Saramurillo Accords.

• Hemispheric summit: a meeting of minds?

  11 February 2018

  Being the organiser of a major international get-together is usually a political plus for the host country; Peru has now hosted a number of such gatherings in recent years. But the hemispheric summit, scheduled for April 13-14 in Lima, looks like being problematic.

• Inter-American Court judges Peru on Fujimori pardon

  3 February 2018

  On February 2, the Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACHR) convened a session in San José (Costa Rica) to consider the legality (or otherwise) of the pardon (indulto) extended by President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski last December to former president Alberto Fujimori.

• Fujimori feud leads to rift

  3 February 2018

  After weeks of speculation, Kenji Fujimori has finally broken ranks with his sister’s Fuerza Popular (FP) party. The decision by Kenji and nine other members of the largest party in Congress not to back the motion to impeach President Kuzynski, defying a three-line whip, led to the disciplinary proceedings.

• Extractives: a watch-list of concerns as prices pick up

  3 February 2018

  As mineral prices strengthen once again, international business analysts are ranking Peru high for the good economic returns they portend. One analyst describes Peru and Brazil as positioned to lead the pack in copper, with Peru the winner "owing to its number of high-value projects and a faster-growing mining industry value".

• Illegal mining, the Pope's visit and employment in Madre de Dios

  27/1/2018

  Pope Francis travelled to the city of Puerto Maldonado, known as the gateway to Peru's Amazon, before even visiting President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski at the palace, a change to the itinerary undertaken, it was said, because of weather concerns but having the effect of signalling that the Amazon indigenous were Francis' top priority in Peru.

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