NEWS

• Gold mining continues to threaten livelihoods and the environment

  22 May 2016

  Satellite mapping by the Monitoring the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) has been charting the environmental damage done by illegal and informal mining and deforestation. New maps show how mining is invading the Tambopata National Reserve.

• Mining output boosts Q1 GDP growth

  22 May 2016

  Peru’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 4.4% in the first quarter of this year, somewhat higher than the 3.3% achieved for the whole of last year.

• Mercedes Araoz offers olive branches

  22 May 2016

  Mercedes Araóz, vice-presidential candidate for PPK and former minister during Alan García’s last government, has atoned for her role over the 2009 killings at Bagua.

• Protest over Block 192 and support from the UN

  22 May 2016

  Oil exploitation in Block 192 in Peru's northern Amazon has become notorious for the pollution that has occurred over more than 40 years. Last week, indigenous leaders from the area came to Congress in Lima to present a petition with 8,000 signatures from 74 countries.

• Renewed strike over Tia Maria

  16 May 2016

  As the end of Ollanta Humala’s presidency hovers into view and with a new government in the offing, pressure is once again building up over Tía María. Last week, local communities staged a 72-hour strike in pursuit of their demand to have the mining project called off.

• Court action on Cacao del Peru Norte

  16 May 2016

  A court in Lima has served a cautionary measure (medida cautelar) on Cacao del Perú Norte, ordering it to stop all activity at Tamshiyacu because of its impact on primary forest there.

• NRGI reports on mineral revenue sharing

  07 May 2016

  An excellent report has just been published by the Natural Resource Governance Institute, (NRGI) authored by María Lasa Aresti. In 31 pages, it presents careful documentation and explanation of how mineral revenues are fed down to the sub-national level, providing data from 2005 to 2014. It explains accurately the whole system of transfers.

• Keiko promises to deregulate mining

  07 May 2016

  Congress is currently debating a controversial bill which, if passed, would repeal decrees 1100 and 1105. These set out the procedures to transform informal into formal mining. They contain many regulations that seek to control the abuses of illegal mining and other similar activities. It is feared that the cancellation would leave 'protected zones' unprotected. Despite these concerns, Keiko Fujimori has declared that her government would repeal these decrees.

• United Cacao blamed for deforestation

  07 May 2016

  In an open letter delivered on 4 May, 60-plus indigenous organisations and NGOs from Peru, Europe and the United States called on United Cacao Limited to be barred from trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), due to alleged violations of Alternative Investment Market (AIM) rules. The letter, addressed to the Financial Conduct Authority, blamed United Cacao for the illegal deforestation of at least 11,000 hectares in the Peruvian Amazon.

• Fujimorismo wins big in Congress

  01 May 2016

  The ONPE, the institution responsible for administering elections in Peru, has been slow at providing complete figures for the congressional elections. It had still not finished the count at the end of last week. However, the distribution of seats between parties in the news Congress, which will assemble at the end of July, is clear.

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