NEWS

• Dialogue and human rights in the mining sector: a PSG publication

  23 March 2019

  This week the Peru Support Group with Idehpucp launched its report entitled ‘Dialogue and Human Rights in the Mining Sector: Learning from Peru’. Through the lens of projects that have involved dialogue between mining companies and communities affected by mining, it seeks to draw some broad conclusions about what constitutes ‘good’ and ‘bad’ practice.

• Shipibo leader spells out dangers for indigenous environment defenders in Madre de Dios

  23 March 2019

  Julio Cusurichi won a Goldman Environmental Award for leading a successful campaign to create a legally recognised territory of 8,300 square kilometres for the Mashco Piro, an Amazonian group. Having helped set up a network of indigenous forest monitors and defended this reserve when the government gave up, Cusurichi has found protecting territory an increasingly difficult challenge with illegal miners, loggers and drug traffickers presenting an existential threat to the indigenous people of the region.

• Gonzalo Portocarrero

  23 March 2019

  It was with great sadness that we learnt this last week of the death of Gonzalo Portocarrero, a leading Peruvian sociologist.

• New cabinet brings gender parity

  18 March 2019

  On 10 March a new cabinet was sworn in, the second one put together by President Martín Vizcarra who will soon be a year in post. Seven new ministers were incorporated, all women, making this the second cabinet in Peru’s history to achieve gender parity.

• Environment Impact Assessment for Petroleum Lot 64 in Loreto sent back to the drawing board

  18 March 2019

  Hard on the heels of its rejection of the EIA for the Hidrovia megaproject reported last week, the Ministry of Environment’s national certification agency, SENACE, has now turned its attention to Geopark.

• Tambogrande back in the spotlight

  11 March 2019

  Proinversión, the government agency in charge of promoting and approving new investment projects, announced at the end of last month that a new US$350 million project, El Algarrobo, is under consideration.

• Senace criticizes the Hidrovia project, again

  11 March 2019

  On March 6, Senace (Servicio Nacional de Certificación Ambiental para las Inversiones Sostenibles) issued a new notification declaring that the Ennvironmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the controversial Hidrovia project (see last week’s newsletter) was void on procedural grounds.

• Political reform blueprint expected this week

  05 March 2019

  This week will see publication of the recommendations of a special commission of political scientists and electoral experts to introduce reforms to the country’s political institutions and its electoral rules.

• Growth rated lifted by fourth quarter results

  05 March 2019

  The Peruvian economy grew by a fraction under 4% in 2018, according to figures published by the statistics office, INEI.

• Oxfam points to increased poverty and inequality

  05 March 2019

  Growth notwithstanding, both poverty rates and levels of inequality have increased over the past two years according to the report by Oxfam released last week in Lima. The increases represent a reversal of the trend towards improved social conditions registered over the last 15 years.

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