NEWS

• Trade balance benefits from copper price rise

  11 November 2018

  According to figures published last week by the Central Bank, the value of Peru’s exports rose by 11.5% in the first three quarters of 2018 against the same period last year. The most dynamic sector was the mining industry.

• Chavarry under fire

  11 November 2018

  In spite of unrelenting pressure from nearly all quarters, the controversial chief public prosecutor (Fiscal de la Nación), Gonazlo Chávarry, continues in post with the support of the Fujimoristas who want to prevent investigations against him in Congress going any further. In the past week, he attempted to clear his name in an interview with CNN, but did not emerge with much credit.

• How subsidiary state institutions can make their voice heard

  01 November 2018

  Much has been written about the role of social mobilisation in putting limits on what extractive industries can do, but much less on how subsidiary institutions in countries like Peru work to impose constraints. A recently published study by Maria-Therese Gustafsson and Martin Scurrah looks at the way in which Peru’s Environment Ministry has managed to prevail over other more powerful state institutions (like the Ministry of Energy and Mines) through strategic alliances with other actors in civil society.

• Women and girls bear the greatest burden in climate change

  01 November 2018

  Recent research by the Canadian IDRC and the Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano, published in June, documents the ways in which women are particularly vulnerable to the problems brought about by climate change. Of four case studies, three are from Peru: Iquitos, the Amazon delta region and the Cumbaza basin.

• Bill to reform the canon before Congress

  28 October 2018

  The 'canon' is the basic channel for passing a proportion of tax and royalty revenues from central to local government in areas where natural resource extraction is taking place. The canon includes rents from hydrocarbons as well as from mining. It is paid in different proportions to regional governments as well as to municipalities at the provincial and district levels. A bill to change the law is currently being discussed in Congress.

• A window of opportunity? Peru's application to join the OECD

  28 October 2018

  A new book launched last week in Lima sees Peru's application to join the 35-member OECD as an opportunity to leverage a serious improvement in environmental regulation. Peru applied to become a member in 2012. Its title is 'El camino ambiental hacia la OCDE: El Perú y la implementación de las recomendaciones en materia ambiental'. Its author, Ivan Lanegra, is a lawyer and professor at the Catholic University.

• EU delegation travels to Lima - considers Title IX complaints

  28 October 2018

  Five years on from the implementation of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union and Peru, a EU delegation visited Peru to look into complaints by civil society organisations and the Peru Europe Platform (PEP). These relate to Peru’s alleged failure to comply with Title IX of the FTA on sustainable development.

• Slow progress on a treaty to bind companies on human rights

  20 October 2018

  The UN working group studying the possibility of a binding treaty on human rights and companies held its fourth meeting in Geneva this week.

• Chavarry uses presence in Congress to lambast Perez

  20 October 2018

  Pedro Chávarry, the chief public prosecutor was invited by the congressional defence committee to use the opportunity to launch a tirade against José Domingo Pérez, the prosecutor who is investigating Keiko Fujimori.

• Judge Hinostroza jumps Peru, but is jailed in Spain

  20 October 2018

  On 17 October it emerged that disgraced former Supreme Judge César Hinostroza had fled to Spain. Rumours had been circulating for a couple of days that he had left Peru. It was confirmed he had left over the northern border and had taken a flight from Guayaquil to Amsterdam and then Madrid, arriving on 7 October.

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