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Weekly Report - 15 May 2014 (WR-14-19)
PERU: New attorney general excites controversy
The new attorney general, Carlos Ramos Heredia, took office on 12 May amid a wave of media-fanned public suspicion. The suspicion stems in part from his familial ties (he is a cousin of First Lady Nadine Heredia) but mostly from the fact that he is the subject of a constitutional complaint in congress for the manner in which he dealt with the allegations of corruption, bribery and even orchestration of murder against the regional president of Áncash, César Álvarez Aguilar [WR-14-14]. Ramos takes office in the midst of a power clash between the constitutional tribunal (TC) and the council of magistrates (CNM), which has damaged Peru’s judicial credibility.
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