The process has begun to annul the law to promote deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon passed at the end of last year. The Constitutional Tribunal has admitted a demand presented by the San Martín regional government to have Law No. 31973 declared unconstitutional and...
If one thing fails, then try, try and try again. Having so far failed to win control over the Junta Nacional de Justicia (JNJ) (the entity that amongst other things appoints the heads of Peru’s electoral bodies), the far-right parties in Congress are now seeking...
Wilfredo Oscorima, the governor of Ayacucho, has become a household name in Peru in the last month because of his penchant for lending Rolex watches and other pieces of expensive jewellery to President Dina Boluarte. Now known as her ‘wayki’, which means ‘brother’ in...
Gustavo Gorriti, the author and Peru’s premier investigative journalist, has never been a friend of people on the far-right of Peruvian politics. He was briefly kidnapped in 1992 following the autogolpe perpetrated by then president, Alberto Fujimori. But as the...
According to an Americas Quarterly article this month by Will Freeman, more than 400,000 Peruvians left their country with no intention of returning during the first quarter of 2023, similar to the figure for the whole of 2022. In identifying the causes of this...
A new law, overriding objections from the executive branch seeks to outlaw the use of gender-inclusive language in school texts as well as all official documents. The move, promoted by Milagros Jáuregui from the ultra-conservative Renovación Popular party, will ban...
In a week of growing political tensions over the ‘Rolexgate’ affair, the Congress redoubled its support for the ailing Boluarte administration by ratifying the new cabinet led by Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzén. The week saw the removal of six cabinet ministers,...
Immediately following the vote of confidence in Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzén's cabinet, two motions of censure were presented against Minister of Energy and Mines Romulo Mucho Mamani. The first questioned Mucho for omitting information in his sworn declaration of...
The Peruvian National Port Authority (APN) has taken steps to revoke the exclusivity rights granted to the Chinese company Cosco, on the grounds the APN was not empowered to grant such privileges. Cosco has said that “it has been evaluating the impact which this...
On 24 March, after a prior consultation process lasting ten months, representatives of indigenous communities on oil Block 8 and state officials signed a prior consent agreement. This consists of 79 articles that sets the conditions for the next four years for the...
This week, Mgr José Antonio Eguren, the archbishop of Piura, announced his early retirement following a prolonged Vatican investigation into the activities of Sodalicio de Vida Cristiana, a far-right Catholic organisation which has long held sway in Peru and which...
A curious scandal – or rather suspicions of a scandal – has dominated this week’s headlines: the provenance of President Dina Boluarte’s collection of highly expensive, Rolex watches. In repeated public encounters, Boluarte has adorned herself with such luxury items,...