Weekly Report - 29 November 2012 (WR-12-47)

President Ollanta Humala is suffering the consequences of his conscious effort to keep out of the eye of the media – the media has simply turned its attention to his wife and virtual unofficial spokesperson, First Lady Nadine Heredia. Already obsessed with the politically active Heredia, who it portrays as a Lady Macbeth figure of unbridled political ambition, the national media went into overdrive when, apropos of nothing, the president of Peru’s national electoral board (JNE) said that there was nothing much to stop Heredia seeking to succeed her husband in 2016.

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