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Weekly Report - 22 January 2015 (WR-15-03)
PERU: Humala struggles to fend off spying accusations
“I have never betrayed the democratic commitment that prompted me to enter politics,” President Ollanta Humala said during an impromptu televised address on 19 January. Humala reacted swiftly to reassure the public after a series of media revelations that agents in the national intelligence agency (Dini) had spied on opposition politicians and even Vice-President Marisol Espinoza. But this is neither the first time his government has been accused of adopting the practices that characterised the authoritarian rule of former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) nor the first time he has promised transparent investigations to get to the bottom of such incidents.
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