NEWS

• CPI poll puts Acuna in second place

  18 January 2016

  The first opinion poll of the New Year, by CPI, was published on 14 January.

• More oil spills in the Amazon

  18 January 2016

  David Hill, who reports for The Guardian blog on environmental issues in the Amazon has published an interesting piece on oil pollution in the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve.

• Espinar: a victory in the long battle to get access to information on contamination

  18 January 2016

  The local judge in Cusco this week ordered the Regional Director of Health for Espinar to release five sets of documents, going back over five years, relating to the presence of heavy metals in the province.

• Sterilisation victims accuse public prosecutors of abuse

  18 January 2016

  The judicial investigation into reproductive health policies pursued by the Fujimori regime in the mid 1990s is being resumed. However La República ran a story in which some of those who underwent forced sterilisation accused the public prosecutors assigned to take their testimony on their cases of treating them badly.

• Coordinadora decries environmentalist's death in Cajamarca

  11 January 2016

  On 28 December, the Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDH) issued a public statement expressing concern and condemnation for the killing of an environmental activist, Hitler Ananías Rojas Gonzales

• Buenaventura suspends mining operations in San Gabriel following community rejection

  11 January 2016

  At the tail-end of last year, Buenaventura, one of Peru’s largest private sector mining operators, decided to suspend operations at the San Gabriel gold mine after it became clear that communities living in the areas affected by the project were dissatisfied with the information provided to them by the company.

• The trade in illegal gold

  20 December 2015

  As the war on small, illegal and informal gold mining continues in the Amazon jungle, it remains the case that this abusive industry will only be effectively controlled by fierce monitoring and pursuit of the large international traders, some of whom are beginning to be named publicly.

• Alberto Fujimori makes his demands known

  20 December 2015

  Former president Alberto Fujimori made it known that his daughter’s list of candidates for Congress should contain what he called “experienced” political figures as well as “new blood”.

• Veronika outlines 'plan de gobierno'

  20 December 2015

  Veronika Mendoza hopes to see her campaign shift up a gear over the next month. The Mendoza campaign’s government plan, announced on 16 December is designed to appeal to those who see the other main candidates as all singing from very similar hymn sheets.

• PPK selects running mates

  20 December 2015

  On 19 December, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski announced his two running mates in the presidential campaign: Martín Vizcarra and Mercedes Aráoz.

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