The head of Puno’s regional government, Hernán Fuentes, denied allegations that he illegally hired unqualified personnel with funds from the United Nations Development Programme, or UNDP. The news, which generated sharp reactions in Lima, was widely reported in Peru’s newspapers Wednesday.
Fuentes, who is being investigated for allegedly hiring government consultants that did not meet the […]

The mayor of the Lima suburb Chosica is facing resurgent accusations that he coerced municipal employees into having sex by threatening to fire them if they refused, and that he infected at least two with HIV.
Peru’s Health Ministry on Tuesday published a resolution in the official government gazette, El Peruano, assigning State’s Attorney Fanny […]

Peruvian police arrested a criminal court judge late Wednesday night in Arequipa on charges he tried to coerce sexual favors from the sister of a man facing murder charges in exchange for a favorable ruling in his case.
Judge Francisco León Guerrero was suspended pending criminal proceedings,” daily El Comercio reported.
Mercedes Villarán de la Torre […]

Lady Bardales, the ex-police lieutenant and bodyguard to former President Alejandro Toledo, was escorted Thursday to Peru’s Justice Palace under heavy guard to face charges of illegal enrichment after eluding authorities for more than seven months.
Dubbed “Lady Bi” by Peru’s tabloid press — an allusion to Britain’s Princess Diana — Bardales was thrust into the […]

Ex-President Alberto Fujimori’s once-feared intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, testified Monday that his former boss is innocent of charges he sanctioned the Colina group paramilitary death squad.
Fujimori, 69, could hardly contain a grin as his former spy chief depicted him as a “courageous” hero who defeated a bloody leftist insurgency and lifted Peru from its knees. […]

Ongoing trials in Peru against jailed cocaine trafficker Fernando Zevallos and his sister Lupe must come to an end before they can be extradited to Chile said anti-drug prosecutor Iván Quispe Mansilla Thursday.
It is important that Peruvian justice determine their criminal responsibility before any extradition request can be examined, Mansilla told state news agency Andina.
Fernando […]

Jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori’s eldest daughter and probable 2011 presidential candidate says she “would not hesitate” to grant her father amnesty if she takes up residence again in the Government Palace as commander and chief.
“I trust that my father will be declared innocent, but if the time comes, and if I am president, I won’t […]

Former President Alberto Fujimori’s lawyer, César Nakazaki, said Thursday that he has filed a 20-page appeal to the Lima Bar Association in response to its Ethics Commission resolution that he be suspended from practicing law for two years for misconduct.
Nakazaki, one of Peru’s top criminal defense attorneys, allegedly violated the Peruvian code of legal ethics […]

Ex-President Alberto Fujimori’s mountain of legal problems might have gotten a lot tougher to overcome following a ruling Thursday by the Lima Bar Association’s Ethics Commission ordering a two-year suspension of his defense lawyer, Cesar Nakazaki, from practicing law.
Congressman Rolando Sousa, a leading member of Fujimori’s opposition party bloc and also Nakazaki’s law partner, broke […]

By Alejandro Vassilaqui
Executive director of the Information and Education Center for the Prevention of Drug Abuse (CEDRO)
Translated and reprinted from the opinion page of El Comercio.
Times change and so too does drug trafficking, to its advantage. It has the capacity to adjust to change with all the speed required for effective marketing. According to reliable […]