NEWS

• Protest at La Oroya: jobs v environment.

  30 August 2015

  Protests by unions resumed this week over the continued closure of the Doe Run smelter at La Oroya, on grounds of its severe pollution record.

• Peru adopts draconian cell-phone regulations

  08 August 2015

  The Humala administration has recently passed legislation by executive decree aimed at facilitating surveillance of cell-phone traffic.

• Matos Mar dies at 93

  08 August 2015

  It is with great regret that we learn of the death of the anthropologist José Matos Mar.

• Peru no longer in pole position

  02 August 2015

  Peru this year is set to be eleventh in the league table of the region’s economies if the latest figures from the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) are to be believed.

• No rise in minimum wage without Tia Maria

  02 August 2015

  A long anticipated rise in the minimum wage will not materialise until there is a pick-up in foreign investment, according to Prime Minister Pedro Cateriano.

• El Nino threatens livelihoods over next eight months

  02 August 2015

  The El Niño climate phenomenon affecting Peru started in March; it should peak around Christmas, petering out by March next year.

• ONPE warns that time is running out

  02 August 2015

  The head of ONPE (the entity in charge of the organisation of elections) has warned that the new Congress will need to debate and approve reforms to the party system in the next two weeks.

• Petrobras scandal may involve Peruvians

  26 July 2015

  Increased attention is being paid to possible irregularities by Brazilian construction firms in other countries, among them Peru.

• Presidency of Congress goes to the right

  26 July 2015

  On 26 July Luis Iberico (from PPC-APP) was elected to the Presidency of Congress.

• Tia Maria: State of Emergency suspended, but conflict far from resolved

  26 July 2015

  On July 22, Pedro Cateriano, the President of the Council of Ministers, announced that the cabinet had taken the decision not to renew the state of emergency in the province of Islay in Arequipa.

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