On 22 January, nearly 4,000 artisanal and small-scale miners (ASM) staged a peaceful march in Lima and several other regions, demanding the repeal of Legislative Decree 1607. The decree reduces to 90 days the timeframe for complying with the contractual requirements...
Faced by eco-territorial conflicts, women in the Amazon are taking a more prominent leadership role, participating in the development of sustainable tourism. However, assigned gender roles still prevent them from raising their voices in protest against threats of land...
Two recent reports document the complex interrelations between climate change, drought, and deforestation in the Amazon. The first report, issued by World Weather Attribution (WWA), a network of scientists from five European research institutes, presents evidence...
In August 2022 the city of Lima was the first Latin American capital to get behind the call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty – a global mechanism to transition away from coal, oil and gas and to tackle explicitly the source of more than three quarters of...
On 17 January, President Dina Boluarte promulgated the law that modifies the system whereby parties hold open primaries for the selection of candidates for elective office. It followed a vote in Congress – 74 in favour, 36 against with 12 abstentions – returning Peru...
The suspended chief public prosecutor (fiscal de la nación) Patricia Benavides will face the music next week (25 and 26 January) when she is called to account by the Ministerio Público. She stands accused of leading a criminal organisation involving specific members...
Hitherto pressure for constitutional change has come from the social movements that opposed the removal of Pedro Castillo from the presidency, especially in the south of the country. Now pressure seems to be coming from a rather different (and surprising) source: from...
On 17 January, the Permanent Commission of the Congress initiated its session, including on its agenda a debate on a proposal to extend the deadline for informal miner registration in the Comprehensive Mining Formalisation Register (Reinfo) by an additional 90 days....
On 8 December, the UN’s Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) sent a letter to the government of Peru reiterating its recommendation that the state protect the territorial rights of indigenous peoples in the Cordillera Azul National Park....
According to figures from the Central Bank, Peru’s tax take as a percentage of GDP fell inexorably in 2023. Over the year tax income in real terms fell by 12%. By November it stood at 15.2% of GDP compared with 17.5% in November 2022. Even the 2022 figure was way...
On 10 January, Alejandro Soto Reyes, the president of Congress, promulgated a law that opens the door to the further rapid deforestation of the Peruvian Amazon. He did so without consideration of two appeals that had been awaiting a vote. Congress had approved...
This last week saw the anniversary of the killings that took place in Juliaca, Puno, last year. While there were concentrations of people on the streets of the city and flags flew at half mast in most towns in the region, the rest of Peru tended to look the other way....