NEWS

• HUMAN RIGHTS: Bagua 5 years on; Lugar de la Memoria opens

  28 June 2014

  On 5 June 2009, 10 demonstrators and 23 police were killed and hundreds were wounded when police clashed with indigenous people protesting against the imposition of two legislative decrees – 1090 and 1064 – that authorised exploitation of natural resources on ancestral land.

  Nearly five years after German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered to donate funds to build a Museum of Memory for those killed in the 20-year war against Sendero Luminoso, the Lugar de la Memoria, Tolerancia e Inclusión has partially opened with a three-day cultural festival ‘ILUMina’ held on the 5, 6 and 7 June.

   

• Judicial Clash: Constitutional Tribunal v National Magistrates Council etc

  27 May 2014

  The fallout from the controversial election of Carlos Ramos Heredia as the new National Prosecutor General in April continues to rumble on. It has revealed itself in a high-profile clash between two of Peru's most powerful judicial bodies: the Constitutional Tribunal (TC) and the National Magistrates Council (CNM).

  Congess approved election of six new members of the TC.

• Extractives: IACHR rejects petition; Peru and Colombia collaborate etc

  27 May 2014

  The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has rejected the petition asking for the revocation of the Newmont Mining Company's licence to build a further gold mine in Cajamarca.

  Peru and Colombia to collaborate in combating Illegal gold mining

  Ancash farmers protest water appropriation for mining 

  Business suffers from community conflict

• Abortion guidelines to be published soon

  27 May 2014

  The Ministry of Health has now produced a ‘technical guide for the interruption of pregnancies with informed consent before the 22 weeks in the cases when they endanger the life of the mother’ but it has yet to be implemented.

• Anti-trust rules proposed

  27 May 2014

  José Távara, a senior economist from the Catholic University (PUCP) has argued forcefully for the passage of legislation to prevent mergers and acquisitions creating virtual monopolies

• Controversial appointment of new Fiscal

  29 April 2014

  On April 9, Peru’s Supreme Board of Public Prosecutors (fiscales) elected Carlos Ramos Heredia, a cousin of the first lady Nadine Heredia, to a term of three years as the new National Prosecutor General (Fiscal de la Nación).  The vote passed by four votes with one against.

• Debate over civil union gathers strength

  29 April 2014

  Over the past month the debate over possible legislation allowing for the civil union of people of the same sex has prompted wide public discussion of a topic that has for long remained taboo in Peruvian politics.

• Niño in sight

  29 April 2014

  The likelihood of Peru being hit by the Niño phenomenon this year appears to be in the ascendant.

• Las Bambas sold for 5.85 billion dollars

  29 April 2014

  Minmetal’s acquisition of the Las Bambas copper project in Apurímac represents yet another significant milestone in the advance by Chinese companies to dominate the Peruvian mining sector.

• Further violence feared as deadline passes for registration of miners

  29 April 2014

  Informal and illegal gold miners account for some 20% of Peruvian gold exports. The legislation to formalize the sector was passed in 2012 but only recently implemented, with a deadline for registration of April 19. Violent protests erupted.

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