Weekly Report - 30 August 2012 (WR-12-34)

“I feel like the father of Peru’s Al Capone”. President Ollanta Humala’s father Isaac came out with this inimitable comment after revelations that Alexis Humala, his youngest son, had won various State contracts in contravention of the law. Isaac said he was being made to feel like the father of Chicago’s most notorious gangster because of the excessive and unjust criticism of Alexis, from First Lady Nadine Heredia among others. For good measure, Isaac lashed out at his daughter-in-law, who he accused of being “drunk on power”. As ever he has managed to go further than the staunchest critics in discomforting Peru’s President.

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