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Weekly Report - 19 June 2014 (WR-14-24)

PERU: Regional presidents in the eye of the storm

Corruption charges and investigations are mushrooming in almost all of Peru’s 25 regional governments at a frenetic speed. Why, when suspicion of irregularities and malfeasance at a regional level has abounded for years, is this coming to a head now? Some regional presidents are accusing President Ollanta Humala of conspiring to discredit them ahead of regional elections this October. They also claim that he is intent on reversing the process of decentralisation: the current system of greater autonomy was established through regional elections in 2002. It could be argued, however, that Humala had turned a blind eye to regional corruption until the egregious recent events in the north-western region of Áncash forced his hand.

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