Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Milagros Salazar DOCE CORRAL, Peru, Jul 13, 2011 (IPS) – The daylight is fading, but Francisca Huanca’s hopes are growing brighter. "Yes, they’re his sneakers, he liked to play football," she says with tears in her eyes. She has just caught a glimpse of the remains of [...]
ELECTIONS-PERU: Leftist Winner Promises "Growth with Social Inclusion"
June 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Milagros Salazar * LIMA, Jun 6, 2011 (IPS) – For the first time in the democratic history of Peru, a left-wing candidate has won the presidency. With the support of an overwhelming majority of voters in the provinces, retired lieutenant colonel Ollanta Humala defeated his right-wing rival [...]
PERU-US: Washington Urged to Cooperate with Humala
June 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Jun 6, 2011 (IPS) – The United States should seek cooperative relations with Peruvian President-elect Ollanta Humala, a number of Andean specialists urged here Monday. "Humala all along has said he wants to maintain good relations with the U.S. government, and he sent nothing [...]
ELECTIONS-PERU: Humala and Fujimori in Final Stretch
April 11, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ángel Páez LIMA, Apr 11, 2011 (IPS) – If retired military officer Ollanta Humala wins the Jun. 5 presidential runoff in Peru, he will have to govern with a highly fragmented Congress. And if lawmaker Keiko Fujimori triumphs, her most notable move may be the release of [...]
PERU: Fujimorismo Candidates Allegedly Tied to Drug Trade
March 21, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ángel Páez LIMA, Mar 21, 2011 (IPS) – Congressional candidates nominated by the party of presidential hopeful Keiko Fujimori to stand in the Apr. 10 elections in Peru failed to inform the electoral authorities that they are under investigation for drug trafficking and money laundering. The media [...]
PERU: Calling for Reduced Military Spending While Boosting Arms Purchases
March 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ángel Páez LIMA, Mar 7, 2011 (IPS) – United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Sergio Duarte said heads of state who call for a reduction in military spending should practice what they preach. Duarte was commenting to IPS on the position taken by centre-right Peruvian President Alan [...]
Water Evaporates in Peru’s For-Export Crops
February 11, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Milagros Salazar* LIMA, Feb 11, 2011 (Tierramérica) – As freshwater disappears from the super-populated Peruvian coast, the most water-intensive crops are expanding unabated as highly profitable exports. Observers warn about the harm this is causing and demand greater responsibility from the government and all involved. With rising [...]
PERU: Government under Fire for Waiving Environmental Certificates for Dams
February 10, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Milagros Salazar LIMA, Feb 10, 2011 (IPS) – The Peruvian government has been forced to offer talks with governors, the ombudsperson’s office and Catholic Church leaders, to stem the outcry over two emergency decrees that waive the requirement for environmental certificates for 33 investment projects, including hydroelectric [...]
RIGHTS-PERU: At Last, Reparations for Civil War Victims
February 9, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Milagros Salazar LIMA, Feb 9, 2011 (IPS) – Peru will begin to pay individual monetary reparations to victims and survivors of the 1980-2000 counterinsurgency war, with top priority put on elderly people in remote villages in the country’s impoverished highlands, where most of the human rights violations [...]
RIGHTS-PERU: US Court OKs Extradition of ‘Butcher of the Andes’
November 3, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ángel Páez LIMA, Nov 3, 2010 (IPS) – A U.S. appeals court has given the green light to the extradition to Peru of retired Peruvian army officer Telmo Hurtado, who fled to Miami in 2002 to escape trial for the Aug. 14, 1985 massacre of 69 people [...]
