NEWS

• Mining and its potential contribution to the SDGs

  23 July 2016

  A new report has just appeared entitled "Mapping Mining to the Sustainable Development Goals: An Atlas". It takes the new Sustainable Development Goals which 193 countries signed up to in September 2015, and works through each showing the potential for mining to contribute, giving a number of success stories for each goal.

• Soldiers stand trial for rape

  18 July 2016

  Eleven army officers stand trial accused of raping 14 women from the communities of Manta and Vilca, in Huancavelica, during the period of internal armed conflict. The army officers were stationed at a base there from 1984.

• Conga: watch this space

  10 July 2016

  Gary Goldberg, CEO at Newmont Mining, has said that he intends to visit Peru towards the end of this year, with a view to discussing with the new Kuczynski government ways of moving ahead with developing the giant Conga mining deposit in Cajamarca.

• Zavala next PM?

  10 July 2016

  As the PSG Newsletter went to press, it seemed certain that president-elect Pedro Pablo Kuczynski would appoint Fernando Zavala as president of the Council of Ministers. A full list of new ministers was likely to be published over the next few days. Some, indeed, have already been announced, such as Alfredo Thorne, the new minister of economy and finance.

• PPK visit to La Oroya

  10 July 2016

  President-elect Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s visit to the smelter complex at La Oroya on 6 July was seen by many observers in Lima that the new government would try to resolve some of the outstanding issues left by his predecessors. For years, the future of La Oroya has been in doubt, ever since it was acquired by the US Doe Run in the 1990s. Doe Run systematically failed to honour commitments to upgrade the complex, reckoned to be one of the world’s most polluted sites.

• Promulgation of Disappeared Law

  03 July 2016

  On 22 June, the executive enacted the Disappearances Law (Ley de Búsqueda de Personas Desaparecidas de 1980 al 2000), approved by Congress on 26 May. The Law recognises the rights of the families of those who ‘disappeared’ during the internal armed conflict.

• New oil spill puts Petroperu in the dock

  03 July 2016

  The resignation of Germán Velásquez as president of Petroperú on 28 June took place as the authorities sought to clarify how yet another oil spill took place from the Northern Peru Pipeline at the end of the previous week.

• Melka selling off illegally-cleared forest land

  03 July 2016

  On 23 June, a public notice in the Jakarta Post in Indonesia set out plans by the Melka group to sell off the lands it controls in Ucayali region by public auction. These properties have been the centre of widespread complaints about indiscriminate deforestation by Melka-related companies to clear the land for palm oil cultivation.

• Post-election realignments

  19 June 2016

  No sooner than Pedro Pablo Kcuzynski had been confirmed as the winner of the 5 June second round, post-electoral realignments began to become clearer.

• Elections: the geography of voting

  19 June 2016

  With the final tally from the second round now officially complete, it becomes possible to analyse the results in a little more detail. Apart from the north-south split Kuczynski’s support appears much more solid in urban and higher-income areas while Fujimori’s is more rural and poverty-based.

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