Weekly Report - 23 December 2003

President Alejandro Toledo's new cabinet did not remain intact for long. On 19 December, four days after having been sworn in, Nidia Puelles resigned her post as minister for women's affairs & social development. She did so after a pro-government congresswoman, Enith Chuquival, told the press that Puelles had taken bribes while holding other government posts, chiefly as head of the INBF, the national institute of family welfare.