LatinNews Daily Report - 07 May 2013

POLITICS| Leftist political leader Díez Canseco dies. On 4 May members of Peru’s Partido Socialista (PS) announced the death of their emblematic political leader, congressman Javier Díez Canseco, after months of battling pancreatic cancer. A prominent figure in Peruvian politics, Díez Canseco was one of the first members of Peru’s traditional Left to back the formation of the Gana Perú coalition that helped current President Ollanta Humala to come to power in 2011. However Díez Canseco, who was considered to be one of congress' leading figures in the fight against official corruption, decided to leave Gana Perú last year over mounting disagreements with the Humala government’s handling of various social and economic issues.