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Julio Guzmán in the UK

Julio Guzmán was in the UK last week, speaking at both Oxford University’s Latin American Centre and at the London School of Economics. Guzmán gained public notoriety as a candidate in the 2016 presidential elections who was forced out of the race in the midst of the...

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Anti-corruption investigations gather speed

The latest declarations by Marcelo Odebrecht have set in motion a chain reaction, with the judicial investigations entering ever more political-sensitive terrain. As indicated by Odebrecht, most of the information about what happened in Peru is held by the...

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Democracy, PPK under threat?

It was never going to be an easy ride for Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, faced as he is with an absolute control by the Fujimorista opposition in Congress. Despite the presidentialist nature of Peru’s constitution (devised in 1993 by the then president Alberto Fujimori),...

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Continuing labour unrest at Southern

The strike at Southern Copper Corporation moves into a second week, despite the fact that publicly both sides say they are willing to resolve the dispute. The media report that the company is calling for the Ministry of Labour to declare the strike illegal, while the...

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La Southern faces more labour protest

Southern Copper Corporation is again facing labour protests at its mines in Cuajone and Toquepala and the refinery in the Ilo Province. The company already settled a strike in April this year. Workers at the mines owned by Grupo Mexico, have announced ‘an indefinite...

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Law to create a bank of DNA data is proposed

One of the long-standing debts the Peruvian government owes to the victims of the internal conflict between 1980 and 2000 is the search for the approximately 15,000 disappeared. On 22 November, this agenda took a step in the right direction with Prime Minister...

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