Mikaela Raiser is a law student at the Universidad de Lima, and a JURIST correspondent covering legal developments and social issues in Perú. ENGLISH On July 3, Keiko Sofía Fujimori Higuchi was certified as the first elected female President of Perú by the National Electoral Jury (Jurado Nacional de Elecciones, JNE). She secured 50.135% of [...]

Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC) are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Perú. All students are from Centro de Investigación de los Estudiantes de Derecho (CIED), a research center in UNSAAC’s faculty of law dedicated to spreading legal information and [...]

Mikaela is a law student at the Universidad de Lima, and a JURIST correspondent covering legal developments and social issues in Perú. Nowadays, Perú faces uneasy parallels to the internal instability seen in the 1980s. While the ideological conflict of the past has been replaced by the cold logic of organized crime, the social atmosphere [...]

Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC), are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Perú. All of them are from Centro de Investigación de los Estudiantes de Derecho (CIED), a research center in UNSAAC’s Faculty of Law dedicated to spreading legal information [...]

On October 10, Dina Boluarte Medina, then serving as President of Perú, was removed from office after the Congress of the Republic approved a presidential vacancy motion accusing her of moral “incapacity” amid a deepening crisis of organized crime and insecurity across the country. The removal began on October 9, when various groups of legislators [...]

Perú’s President Dina Boluarte recently shook up the country’s political landscape by enacting a new law on August 13 granting amnesty to members of the Armed Forces, the National Police, and self-defense committees who participated in the fight against terrorism between 1980 and 2000. The law has divided public opinion and reignited debate about human [...]

Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Perú. All of them are from CIED (Centro de Investigación de los Estudiantes de Derecho), a research center in UNSAA’s faculty of law dedicated to spreading legal information and [...]

Vanesa Escobar is a JURIST correspondent in Peru and a law graduate of Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco.  On December 10, Peru suffered yet another murder. This time, however, the case was directly related to the parliament, reflecting the amount of power it possesses, and its close relations with criminality. The murder [...]

Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in or affecting Perú. All of them are from CIED (Centro de Investigación de los Estudiantes de Derecho), a student research center in UNSAAC’s faculty of law dedicated to spreading [...]

In this occasional series of dispatches and commentaries, JURIST staff and correspondents from around the world reflect on the implications of Donald Trump’s US election victory and some of its likely implications for their regions. In this dispatch, Maria Paz Rodriguez, JURIST’s Chief of Staff for South America, offers some thoughts on what Trump’s victory [...]