NEWS

• Institutionalised corruption in the region?

  28 June 2015

  The ongoing Odebrecht scandal in Brazil threatens to drag through the mud more than one Peruvian government and many in the business elite.

• Nadine in the firing line

  24 June 2015

  On 19 June, the congressional commission investigating the activities of Martín Belaunde Lossio decided to include the first lady, Nadine Heredia, among those whose banking details it proposed to delve into.

• Glacial melt takes its toll

  24 June 2015

  Peru has lost 43% of its glacier cover over the last four decades, according to figures just released by the National Water Authority (ANA).

• Constitutional strains

  24 June 2015

  Despite the agreement on legislative faculties, relations between the executive and Congress remain strained

• APCI refuses a repeal of measure against NGOs

  24 June 2015

  Following on from the attempt by APCI to beef up its supervision powers with respect to NGOs in Peru, a meeting was held on 16 June in which representatives from the Asociación Nacional de Centros and the Coordinadora de Entidades Extranjeras de Cooperación Internacional (COECCI) requested that APCI repeal this new directive.

• Corruption in Peruvian politics: presumption of innocence and guilt

  14 June 2015

  Over the last fortnight First Lady Nadine Heredia Alarcón has faced a barrage of criticism over her personal finances and the presumption that she was at the centre of a corruption scandal just waiting to erupt.

• Congress spikes debate over special powers

  14 June 2015

  Weeks of growing strains between the executive and the opposition-dominated legislature culminated on 12 June with the cancelling of a congressional plenary to decide on whether to give the executive special legislative powers

• Sexual Violence: the Inter-American Court rules against Peru

  08 June 2015

  In late May 2015, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) finally ruled that in the case of Espinoza González vs Peru, the Peruvian state was guilty of having violated the victim’s right to liberty, integrity, protection to honour and dignity, judicial guarantees, judicial process and non-discrimination, during her imprisonment in 1993. Crucially, the Court also ruled that there was a generalised use of sexual violence and rape for which women were the main victims.

• Protest letter over Tia Maria

  08 June 2015

  Hundreds of intellectuals, artists and writers – both from Peru and abroad – signed a letter dated 2 June to President Ollanta Humala demanding that the Tía María mining project be suspended.

• National miners' strike: a non-event?

  25 May 2015

  The National Federation of Mine workers' national strike was called for May 18 “for an indefinite period”. There was little effect on mining output in the first week

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