NEWS

• Amnesty International Call for Urgent Action

  Update 118. 30 November 2006

  AI report that Father Marco Arana and Dr Mirtha Vasquez Chuquilin of the NGO GRUFIDES that focuses on sustainable development and environmental issues, have allegedly received repeated death threats and have been followed and filmed both at work and at home.

• Peruvian NGO attacked for promoting transparency

  Update 117. 30 September 2006

  A Peruvian civil rights NGO has been accused of interfering with justice even as new evidence emerges of continuing high-level corruption.

• Protests at Peru’s biggest goldmine

  Update 117. 30 September 2006

  At a time when mining in Peru is facing international scrutiny, a protest at the massive Yanacocha Gold mine halted operations for at least 24 hours. The demonstration by members of the local community was the result of a lack of local employment and investment by the mine; protesters were demanding local jobs and social spending.

• British Council leave Peru

  Update 117. 30 September 2006

  In a surprising move, the long established British Council (BC) in Lima will be closing its doors for the last time on 29th September.

• Ex-Ambassador appointed chairman of Monterrico Metals

  Update 117. 30 September 2006

  The British Ambassador to Peru 2003-06, Richard Ralph, who retired in April of this year, was a vociferous supporter of UK mining in Peru during his appointment.

• Montesinos sentenced to 20 years in prison

  Update 117. 30 September 2006

  Peru's former intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, has been found guilty and sentenced to twenty years in jail for his involvement in the sale of ten-thousand assault rifles to Colombia's largest left-wing guerrilla group, FARC, seven years ago.

• US-Peruvian Free Trade Agreement

  31 July 2006

  US President Bush's visit to his Andean counterparts (Peru's Toledo, Colombia's Urribe and Ecuador's Gutierrez) in May 2004 brought unexpected news about the ATPA (Andean Trade Preference Act). The Andean nations were already enjoying preferential trade with the US through a programme aimed at helping countries on the front line of the so called war on drugs (ATPDEA). However, the agreement expires at the end of this year.

• Peru’s Congress passes law requiring miners to pay royalties

  Update 116. 31 July 2006

  As mining exports soar with a 71% rise in May, a law has been passed in the Peruvian Congress designed to put an end to so called tax stability contracts that give mining companies tax and royalty free concessions.

• Coca cultivation in Andes stabilises in 2005

  31 July 2006

  The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) published it’s 2005 Andean coca survey, showing that between 2004-05 coca production increased by only 1%, a sign that coca cultivation in the region - which accounts for the entire global output of cocaine - has stabilised.

• Fujimori released on bail in Chile

  31 May 2006

  It has come as a surprise to Human Rights groups and to those seeking the extradition of Peru's former President, Alberto Fujimori, that he was freed on a $3,000 bail on 18 May, after six months in a Chilean jail.

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