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Weekly Report - 24 October 2013 (WR-13-42)
PERU: Institutional tension erupts over contentious rulings
The interior minister, Wilfredo Pedraza, accused the judiciary last week of two perverse rulings which he claimed were inconsistent with the efforts of the government of President Ollanta Humala to combat drug-trafficking and terrorism and uphold law and order. Pedraza fulminated against one ruling which saw the release of 16 people arrested on suspicion of collaborating with the Sendero Luminoso (SL) guerrillas in the Apurímac, Ene and Mantaro rivers valley (Vraem); and another ruling which set free 63 people charged with violent disorder when the police tried to shut down the Lima street market, La Parada, last October.
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