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Weekly Report - 13 February 2014 (WR-14-06)
PERU: Cabinet change with a difference
When Prime Minister César Villanueva was appointed three months ago, it was amid a clamour for a sweeping cabinet reshuffle, especially after a political crisis within a week of his taking office claimed the scalp of the interior minister. When a cabinet change finally did come last weekend it is fair to say it was not quite what public opinion, still less the political opposition, had been anticipating, as it involved pay rather than personnel. On 8 February the media got wind of a plan to all-but double the salaries of cabinet ministers and other officials, leaving President Ollanta Humala facing a stiff headwind of criticism on his flight to Colombia for a key Pacific Alliance summit (see page 16).
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