NEWS

• Thanks for your generosity!

  18 August 2018

  The Peru Support Group would like to thank all of you who have so generously contributed to our crowdfunding campaign.

• UK Public Holiday

  18 August 2018

  The Newsletter will not be published next week because of the UK August Public Holiday.

• BBC reports on Tintaya

  18 August 2018

  Grace Livingstone has a useful report from Peru in which she talks to people living close to Glencore’s mine at Tintaya, Espinar in Cuzco. The tale of environmental pollution is a familiar one. In the recording, she also talks to representatives of Glencore.

• Growth update

  18 August 2018

  GDP for the first six months of the year expanded by 4.3% compared with the same period last year, according to data published last week by the Central Bank. The increase represents a return to normality after the downturn registered in the first half of 2017.

• Vizcarra takes his referendum proposals to Congress

  11 August 2018

  President Vizcarra, with the proposals for referendums under his arm, walked from the Palace to Congress on 9 August personally to hand these on to the legislature. He asked the president of Congress, Fujimorista Daniel Salaverry, to debate them expeditiously so as to hold the referendum before the end of the year.

• Wampis question 'company' delegation

  11 August 2018

  A threatening instance of poor practice appears to be occurring in Loreto. Representatives of the Wampi nation are complaining vigorously that the oil company Geopark has been working in two of their communities, Arutam and Mayauriaga, to create a commission that purports to be the voice of the communities.

• Las Bambas communities demand proper land-use planning

  05 August 2018

  Looking forward to the October provincial elections, a conference was held in Cotabambas (Apurímac) on 21 July entitled 'Elections, the Challenges of Sustainable and Integrated Development, and the Struggle against Corruption'.

• Correction

  05 August 2018

  In the recent PSG article ‘Conflict at Coroccohuayco: accounting for history in EIAs’ the Oxfam ombudsman involved at Tintaya was Ingrid MacDonald, not Ingrid Birkett. Ms MacDonald was Oxfam mining ombudsman from 2001 to 2005.

• Municipal mafia jailed

  05 August 2018

  News last week that the mayor of the La Victoria district of Lima, Elías Cuba, was the head of an organised criminal band came as no surprise to those who had seen the way he and his friends had used the municipality to enrich themselves. But the level of corruption of the group that called itself the ‘los intocables ediles’ or the ‘municipal untouchables’ is striking.

• Global Witness highlights attacks on human rights defenders

  29 July 2018

  In its latest annual report on the situation of human rights defenders worldwide, Global Witness reveals that 2017 was the deadliest year yet for environmental and land defenders. It documented a total of 207 killings, the vast majority in Latin America.

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