Articles

• Fujimorista tactics in Congress become evident

  8 July 2018

  In the past year Keiko Fujimori’s popularity has fallen by 20% and her party is doing all it can to regain it. But this in undermined by the lack of popularity of their members of congress, many of them involved in corruption scandals.

• Who cuts the mustard in the Vizcarra administration?

  30 June 2018

  Despite a few months of relative calm in government, tensions seem to be building between the erstwhile supporters of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and the prime minister, César Villanueva.

• Corruption money from the 1990s surfaces

  30 June 2018

  Many of the millions stolen during the regime of Alberto Fujimori between 1990 and 2000 are still unaccounted for, but last week more information of their whereabouts appeared in Switzerland.

• García Sayán calls for policy on illegal gold to get serious

  30 June 2018

  As a respected lawyer specialising in human rights, a former justice minister and judge at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Diego García Sayán is someone whose views should be taken seriously.

• The battle for Rainbow Mountain

  30 June 2018

  The extraordinary Mountain of the Seven Colours, or Rainbow Mountain as it is known, has received copious media attention in the last two weeks. It is an important and valuable tourist site in Cuzco.

• Keiko and Vizcarra: storm clouds on the horizon?

  24 June 2018

  Lacking a political party to back him up in Congress, President Martin Vizcarra , who is approaching his first 100 days in office, was always going to have to seek allies. His government was never likely to be able to assert itself and establish autonomy. The parliamentary logic meant that, from the outset, he would enter into some sort of understanding with the Fujimorista Fuerza Popular (FP) with its large majority in Congress.

• Light and shade in the coming copper boom

  24 June 2018

  Peru is riding a wave of investment interest in its copper sector. The output prediction is 4.8 million tons a year by 2021, double the 2017 level. Copper projects elsewhere in the world are faltering, given rising costs and the negative impact on Chinese demand as the US-China trade war builds.

• President opposes 'gagging law'

  17 June 2018

  A piece of legislation proposed by Mauricio Mulder has been approved by Congress in spite of firm opposition from President Martín Vizcarra. This is the so-called ‘Ley de Mordaza’ (or Gagging Law).

• Inter-American Court rules on Fujimori case

  17 June 2018

  The Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACHR) has ruled on five points. The first concerns the Peruvian state, and it finds that it has not done enough to investigate and judge cases of human rights abuse

• Emblematic case: Awajun community versus MEM

  17 June 2018

  On 12 June, the Lima Court of Appeal heard the case of the Awajun community of Supayaku. This is the first case in which a junior court ruled in favour of an indigenous community.

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