Weekly Report - 29 November 2007 (ISSN 1741-7422)

President Alan Garcí­a wrote an opinion piece in the national daily, El Comercio, this week providing a prescription for Peru's development problems. It caused quite a stir. A month earlier, in another opinion piece in the same paper, he had described the symptoms. He said Peru was suffering from "The Dog and the Manger" syndrome, a reference to the eponymous fable by Aesop in which a dog lying in a manger of hay snaps and growls at the oxen trying to eat the hay. The moral of the fable: do not begrudge others what you cannot enjoy yourself. Garcí­a argued that Peru's potential for growth is enormous but that its development is being impeded by ideological and bureaucratic barriers at every level.

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