NEWS

• UN survey indicates fall in coca production

  05 July 2015

  The annual World Drug Report, published by the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime at the end of June points to a 18% fall in coca cultivation in Peru in 2013. The data show that manual coca eradication was stepped up in 2013 in Peru. However, success in eradication had the effect of pushing up prices for dried coca leaf by around 30% in 2013. This increases the appetite of farmers to plant coca leaf for future production.

• Martha Chavez decries IACHR

  28 June 2015

  Martha Chávez, congresswoman for Fuerza Popular (FP) and one of the most resolute and outspoken defenders of Alberto Fujimori and his regime, has attacked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and its new commissioner Francisco Eguiguren, the former Peruvian minister of justice.

• Bishops suggest new rules on extractives to IACHR

  28 June 2015

  Three bishops representing the Latin American Bishops Conference (CELAM) have met with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights with proposals of how to protect vulnerable populations from the activities of extractive industries

• 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

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