Amnesty International: Peru journalist and peasant community members pursuing a complaint against police for torture “are in grave danger”
February 17, 2009 by anniether · Leave a Comment
Peru journalist Julio César Vásquez Calle and at least 28 members of peasant communities that charged police and Majaz mining camp security guards of torturing them during a quelled protest in 2005 have received menacing phone calls and death threats, Amnesty International reports. According to Amnesty, the peasants and Calle, who claims he was brutalized [...]
La RepĂşblica: Paramilitaries, Inc.
January 19, 2009 by anniether · Leave a Comment
Op-Ed piece from Saturday’s La RepĂşblica By Alberto AdrianzĂ©n Calling things by their name is enormously difficult for Peruvian politics. Frequently, politics is a refuge for lies, and a source of confusion. If politics is in crisis, it is because it has yet to establish new communicative connections allowing it to construct truths that are [...]
Congress approves modified version of law to fight organized crime
March 28, 2008 by Andean Air Mail & PERUVIAN TIMES · Leave a Comment
Congress approved a modified version of legislative decree 992, or the Lost Domain Law, yesterday that will allow authorities to seize the goods of people who are accused of crimes related to drug trafficking, kidnapping, extorsion and money laundering, among others. The legislation was approved with 74 votes in favor, five against and 16 absent [...]
