Excerpted editorial from today’s El Comercio newspaper:
Amid the foreign turbulence and the internal pressure, Luis Carranza’s management of the Economy and Finance Ministry has been more than satisfactory. Not only because of his prudent management of fiscal accounts, but also because he put emphasis on increasing public investment, becoming the essential architect of Peru’s economic […]

Excerpted editorial from today’s El Comercio newspaper:
The fourth round of negotiations between Chinese and Peruvian representatives to reach a free trade agreement (FTA) has been very arduous. This is mainly due to the fact that China has hardened its position concerning very sensitive issues for Peruvians, though commitments had previously been made by both parties.
This […]

Excerpted editorial from today’s El Comercio newspaper:
Another ungrateful junkyard dog. This time it’s an Andean breed with two heads? Once more, the Bolivian and Ecuadorian governments have made obvious their obstructionist agenda and politicking within the Andean Community of Nations (CAN).
Bolivia and Ecuador maliciously insist on throwing a monkey wrench into the works in […]

By Eleanor Griffis~
The party is over, everyone has gone home, and the assessments begin on what was truly achieved at the Fifth EU-LAC Summit held in Lima last week.
The focus of this summit was twofold: poverty, inequality and inclusion as the social dimension; and climate change, environment and energy as part of sustainable development. Work […]

By Rick Vecchio ~

The decision last week by the European Parliament to reject inclusion of Peru’s Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement on its list of known terrorist groups has reverberated through Peru with hardly any notice taken by English language news media — with one very notable exception: The Wall Street Journal. And boy, did they […]

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 […]

By Anna Zucchetti. Biologist
Translated and reprinted from the opinion page of El Comercio
I don’t know if President Garcia would agree with me about the strategic importance of the soon-to-be-born Ministry of the Environment. I don’t know if we would agree on the structure or about its jurisdiction. But we are in agreement on one point: […]