Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ángel Páez LIMA, Oct 28, 2010 (IPS) – When Susana Villarán is sworn in as mayor of the Peruvian capital on Jan. 1, she will face tough challenges, such as a meagre budget for public works, 1.5 million city residents without clean water and a mismanaged nutritional [...]
PERU: Neighbouring Regions Clash Over Water Diversion
October 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Milagros Salazar LIMA , Oct 20, 2010 (IPS) – With one death and several injured to show for it, two regions in southern Peru remain tangled in conflict over water from one of the country’s main rivers. A project would divert some of the river’s flow from [...]
PERU: Women Sterilised Against Their Will Seek Justice, Again
October 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ángel Páez LIMA, Oct 15, 2010 (IPS) – Poor, rural, Quechua-speaking women in the Peruvian province of Anta who were victims of a forced sterilisation programme between 1996 and 2000 have filed a new lawsuit in their continuing struggle for justice. In May 2009, Jaime Schwartz, the [...]
PERU: Women Farmers Dream in Organic Flavours of Coffee
October 2, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Milagros Salazar * IPS/TerraViva PUTINA PUNCO, Peru, Oct 1, 2010 (IPS) – It’s Saturday and the women hurry in to the cooperative’s warehouse in this rural town in southeastern Peru with their huge bags of coffee beans on their backs. Some come on their own, others are [...]
PERU: Centre-Left Candidate Surges Ahead in Lima Mayoral Contest
October 1, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ángel Páez LIMA, Sep 30, 2010 (IPS) – Centre-left candidate Susana Villarán has unexpectedly surged ahead of her centre-right rival Lourdes Flores in the polls to become the front-runner in the race for Sunday’s elections for mayor in the Peruvian capital. In mid-July, Villarán had just four [...]
LATIN AMERICA: Peru Urges Regional Alliance Against Drug Trade
September 28, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ángel Páez LIMA, Sep 27, 2010 (IPS) – The nations of Latin America must ally themselves — regardless of their roles as drug producers, consumers or transit routes — in a full-force fight against drug trafficking, says Peru, which plans to lead the way. The Peruvian government [...]
PERU: Gov’t Backs Down on Law Letting Rights Violators Off Hook
September 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Milagros Salazar LIMA, Sep. 15 (IPS) – Human rights groups welcomed the revocation by the Peruvian Congress of a law that created a statute of limitations in human rights cases, which had sparked a flurry of criticism from home and abroad. The law, which instructed judges to toss [...]
CORRUPTION-PERU: Gov’t Tries to Track Down Millions from Convicted Officials
August 27, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ángel Páez LIMA, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) – The Peruvian government will try to track down funds hidden away by former officials of the Alberto Fujimori regime (1990-2000) and others sentenced for corruption. The aim is to recover 323 million dollars — the total amount that the [...]
PERU: Woman Candidate Breathes New Life into Left
August 19, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Ángel Páez LIMA, Aug 18 (IPS) – The campaign for the October municipal elections in Peru has brought new hope to the badly weakened left, in the form of Susana Villarán, who has shot up from the ”other candidates” category to third in the polls in the race [...]
PERU:: Transparency a Challenge for Mining and Oil
August 8, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Milagros Salazar* – Tierramérica LIMA, Aug 8 (IPS) – Peru is the only Latin American country that has made steps towards joining the international Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), but has a difficult stretch ahead as it tries to overcome industry resistance to reporting profits and the government’s [...]
