Protests by indigenous communities over mining and oil continue to mount and are reckoned to make up a significant part of the troubles besetting the president, who had his prime minister deposed by Congress in a no-confidence vote late on Monday 30 March. The most recent storm of protest has been over the pending approval of Law 3941, the law that proposes to further soften environmental regulation as part of the fourth paquetazo announced in November last year. An impressive group of organisations, with AIDESEP playing a leading role, met the congresswoman for Cusco, Veronika Mendoza, in her office on Monday 30th and were due to stage a press conference and present a strong case against the legislation the following day in Congress (http://www.aidesep.org.pe/manana-organizaciones-indigenas-presentan-oficialmente-observaciones-del-pl-3941-ante-el-congreso/). The press conference was cancelled and the vote too, as events took over. The proposed law is seen by communities as seriously increasing the danger of unreasonable loss of lands, both community and individual, in order to implement infrastructure projects. It is also criticized by Cooperacción, the influential Peruvian NGO working in the extractives sector, for the way it uses already existing environmental impact assessments as a basis for decision-taking, regardless of the many criticisms validly made against these documents (www.cooperaccion.org.pe/informa/44-cooperaccion-informa/2591-nueva-ley-a).