He promised change. He vowed that decisions about the country’s natural resources would be made by consensus and dialogue with farming and indigenous communities. He said that water was more important than gold. In June of this year, Ollanta Humala, a former army captain, was swept to electoral victory by... » read this article

LIMA, Jun 10, 2011  - Peruvian President-elect Ollanta Humala will push the legal system to investigate and prosecute those responsible for a massive forced sterilisation campaign targeting poor indigenous women carried out by the government of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), said the spokeswoman for Humala's party, Aída García Naranjo. "Humala will... » read this article

Editor's Note: We thank "Helmschmid" for commenting on our publication of Humala Claims Victory in Peru After Edging Ahead of Fujimori. Helmschmid clarifies positions taken (and not taken) by Ollanta Humala, recently elected as the new president of Peru. - Les Blough in Venezuela Reader Comments Helmschmid: Generally a good article, but... » read this article

(Translated from French (Le Monde) for Axis of Logic by Dady Chery) June 7, 2011 The French media have said little in favor of the victory by leftist-nationalist candidate Ollanta Humala over Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, in Sunday’s Peruvian presidential elections. The elections revived a scandal about... » read this article

The left candidate's victory in Peru's election is part of a firm pattern of independence and social progress in South America The victory of left-populist candidate Ollanta Humala in Peru's election is a "big fucking deal", as Vice President Joe Biden famously whispered to Obama on national TV in another context.... » read this article

Business Report. The Chronicle with Bloomberg June 6 (Bloomberg) -- Ollanta Humala claimed victory in Peru's presidential runoff as voters overlooked his past support for Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and rallied behind pledges to stamp out corruption and extend a mining boom to the nation's poor. Congresswoman Keiko Fujimori, who told... » read this article

With less than a week to go before Sunday’s vote, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roger Noriega, presented a report to the Peruvian government purporting to document Venezuelan government support for the campaign of presidential contender Ollanta Humala.  According to Noriega, “We have a very... » read this article

Next month I’ll be going to Peru for a few weeks of vacation. It’s where my wife was born and raised, and where much of her family still lives. The last time I was there, staying at the home of my in-laws, I woke up to a bustle of activity.... » read this article

LIMA, Jun 2, 2011 (IPS) - Attacks, fear and disinformation are widespread in news coverage of Peru's election campaign, with the leading media outlets taking the side of rightwing Keiko Fujimori in her contest against Ollanta Humala for the presidency. A study of the media by the Calandria Association of... » read this article

JUANJUÍ, Peru, Apr 16, 2011 (Tierramérica) - A conservation area covering a mere 23.5 hectares has become a refuge for a unique and endangered animal species in the northeastern Peruvian region of San Martín: the Andean titi monkey. This wilderness preserve was created by a local woman who singlehandedly set... » read this article

Left-wing nationalist Ollanta Humala won the first round of Peru's presidential election but there was a tight race to see who would face him in a June run-off, early official results and unofficial counts showed. With 18 percent of votes tallied, officials said Humala had 26.5 percent of the votes,... » read this article

Editor's Note: Axis of Logic has always been known as a "reader's site" so we make no apology for the length of this excellent research article on the Peruvian Amazon by Michael Reaney for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. In terms of its importance, it resides easily alongside reports flooding the... » read this article

On October 1, 2010, seven Peruvian SOA graduates were convicted of aggravated murder, kidnapping, forced disappearance, and conspiracy for their roles in two massacres of civilians and the murder of a radio journalist who had been reporting on human rights violations. The crimes were all committed by Grupo Colina, an... » read this article

Peru, birthplace of the spud, struggles to protect its biodiversity. HUANCAYO, Peru—It is Saturday morning, and I am in the main food market of the provincial town of Huancayo, high in the Andes of Peru. In the potato section of this market, dozens of porters are hustling through with huge... » read this article

Editor's Note: Margarita Lacabe translated the lyrics of Mercedes Sosa's beautiful revolutionary song, "Juana Azurduy" from Spanish into English. Along with the music video republished below from her website, Margarita describes how she came to revisit the memory of Juana Azurduy, the significance of revolutionary women in Latin American history and the... » read this article

President Obama met with Peruvian President Alan Garcia at the White House on Tuesday amidst growing unrest in Peru over the Alan Garcia government’s free-market policies that open up indigenous lands to resource extraction. Outside the White House, Hollywood actor Q’orianka Kilcher chained herself to a fence, her body covered... » read this article

Local leaders call for dialogue and a full investigation after two campesinos were killed by police in north-western Peru last week.   On Wednesday afternoon, Vicente Robledo Ramírez, aged 55 and father of eight children, and Castulo Correa Huayama, aged 36 and father of six, were shot dead in a... » read this article

Some three hundred indigenous people from the Peruvian Amazon region of Madre de Dios are on their way to the town of Salvacion to evict the Texas-based company Hunt Oil from their ancestral territory. According to reports on mongabay.com, hundreds of Peruvian police officers are waiting in the town for... » read this article

The Peruvian prime minister has said he plans to resign in the coming weeks following the deaths of dozens of people in clashes between indigenous groups and police over land laws. Yehude Simon told Peruvian radio on Tuesday he would step down, a day after apologising to indigenous leaders and... » read this article

For background on this article, read: Peru: 60 dead as Garcia Regime sends police to attack indigenous road blockade   Imagine the scandal and headlines if Hugo Chávez closed a radio station in Venezuela just days after it spoke out against the government's position on a hot topic? What kind... » read this article