Andean Group - July 2012 (ISSN 1741-4466)

This 28 July marks the first anniversary of President Ollanta Humala´s presidency.  Even though Peru has been able to consolidate its position as one of the most stable economies in the region, the country faces important governance challenges. A scenario of increasingly complex social unrest, mostly related to socio-environmental conflicts, has set the government’s political agenda more often than not. A element that cuts across all these conflicts, however, stands out beyond the particularities of each specific case as well as the uses and abuses of social conflicts for political ends: the strong public demand for the improvement of the distribution of the benefits created by the country’s continued economic growth.

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