Weekly Report - 10 July 2014 (WR-14-27)

When it comes to public security the last thing Peru’s President Ollanta Humala needs is an ‘unwelcome distraction’. Poll after poll shows that there is no greater concern for the Peruvian public. But an ‘unwelcome distraction’ is exactly what Humala has got. Retired army general Daniel Urresti Elera, the newly appointed interior minister, Humala’s sixth since taking office in July 2011, is being investigated for ordering the murder of a journalist in 1988.

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