Stories written by Ángel Páez
Ángel Páez has extensive experience working in Peru as an investigative journalist on stories about corruption, drug trade, political violence, arms trade and other forms of organised crime. He joined IPS as a correspondent from his country in 2005. Born in 1963, Páez studied journalism at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima and started working at the daily newspaper La República in 1985. In 1990 he founded the Unidad de Investigación, a collective of journalists that uncovered the corruption scandals surrounding the government of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000). Páez was the first to publish a story on one of those cases, which later led the Chilean courts to hand in the perpetrator to the Peruvian authorities. A correspondent in Lima for the Argentinean newspaper Clarín and the Mexican magazine Proceso, Páez is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a Washington-based organisation that promotes global investigations.

PERU-ISRAEL: Diplomatic Impasse over Corruption Cases

By Ángel Páez
The Peruvian government has offered to put Israeli citizen Dan Cohen on trial in Peru, after refusing to extradite him to Israel on the grounds that there is no extradition treaty between the two countries. Cohen is alleged to have taken bribes of 4.1 million dollars while serving on the board of directors of the Israel Electric Corporation (IEC).
Cenaida Uribe (in red) with members of congressional women's caucus. Credit: Courtesy Congress of Peru

PERU: Popular Women Vote-Catchers Stand in for Real Participation

By Ángel Páez
Women candidates nominated for the presidential and legislative elections in Peru in April tend to be big names in the worlds of sports, television or show business, or are following family tradition. But political parties are failing to promote meaningful participation by women in politics.
Indigenous children at a community-run school in Peru's jungle region. Credit: Milza Hinostroza/IPS

Malnutrition Has an Indigenous Face in Peru

By Ángel Páez
Indigenous children under five in Peru's highlands regions still bear the brunt of chronic malnutrition, even though local authorities in those areas received millions of dollars worth of taxes between 2006 and 2010 from the mining companies operating there.

PERU: Storm in a Glass of Milk

By Ángel Páez
During his nearly five years in office, Peruvian President Alan García has earmarked 620.5 million dollars to the "Glass of Milk" Programme (PVL), the backbone of the policies aimed at reducing malnutrition levels in the country. But the results of the nutritional supplement programme are poor.

PERU: Army’s Version of Civil War Events Questioned

By Ángel Páez
A decade after the end of Peru's 20-year counterinsurgency war was officially declared, the army broke its silence, to give its own version of events.

PERU: Wikileaks Cables Reveal Two-Faced Politics by US

By Ángel Páez
"It’s not surprising for the United States to cooperate with military or government officials in Peru about which it has information linking them to serious crimes," said activist Ricardo Soberón, referring to contradictions revealed in cables released by the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks.

PERU: Human Rights Body Protects Chinese Citizen at Risk of Execution

By Ángel Páez
A prosecutor in Peru clarified that Wong Ho Wing, a Chinese businessman in prison in this country since 2008 on charges of customs tax fraud, will not be released despite an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights decision to accept his case, which was filed to prevent his extradition to China, where he could face the death penalty.

PERU: Mining Firms Alarmed at Election of Leftist Governor

By Ángel Páez
The triumph of a left-wing candidate, Gregorio Santos, as governor of the region of Cajamarca, one of Peru's richest mining areas, has raised concern among mining companies operating there in a climate of tension and conflicts with local communities.
Telmo Hurtado as a young man, and in a current snapshot. Credit: Courtesy of La República newspaper

RIGHTS-PERU: US Court OKs Extradition of ‘Butcher of the Andes’

By Ángel Páez
A U.S. appeals court has given the green light to the extradition to Peru of retired Peruvian army officer Telmo Hurtado, who fled to Miami in 2002 to escape trial for the Aug. 14, 1985 massacre of 69 people in the southern Andean village of Accomarca.
Susana Villarán waves to supporters after rival concedes defeat. Credit: Courtesy of La República

PERU: New Leftwing Mayor of Lima to Face Uphill Task

By Ángel Páez
When Susana Villarán is sworn in as mayor of the Peruvian capital on Jan. 1, she will face tough challenges, such as a meagre budget for public works, 1.5 million city residents without clean water and a mismanaged nutritional supplement programme.
Members of Anta Women's Association heading to a meeting. Credit: Courtesy of Pierre Yves Gimet

PERU: Women Sterilised Against Their Will Seek Justice, Again

By Ángel Páez
Poor, rural, Quechua-speaking women in the Peruvian province of Anta who were victims of a forced sterilisation programme between 1996 and 2000 have filed a new lawsuit in their continuing struggle for justice.
Vladimiro Montesinos entering the courtroom. Credit: Courtesy of the La República newspaper.

PERU: “No Sentence Will Bring Them Back to Life”

By Ángel Páez
"My son Javier received eight bullets, one for each year of his life. That pain can't be erased by a sentence," Rosa Rojas, who lost her husband and young son in the 1991 Barrios Altos massacre in Peru, told IPS.

PERU: Centre-Left Candidate Surges Ahead in Lima Mayoral Contest

By Ángel Páez
Centre-left candidate Susana Villarán has unexpectedly surged ahead of her centre-right rival Lourdes Flores in the polls to become the front-runner in the race for Sunday's elections for mayor in the Peruvian capital.
Preparing for the regional anti-drug summit. Credit: Courtesy of DEVIDA

LATIN AMERICA: Peru Urges Regional Alliance Against Drug Trade

By Ángel Páez
The nations of Latin America must ally themselves -- regardless of their roles as drug producers, consumers or transit routes -- in a full-force fight against drug trafficking, says Peru, which plans to lead the way.
Martin Scheinin Credit: Courtesy of United Nations (Peru office)

RIGHTS-PERU: U.N. Expert Concerned by “Climate of Impunity”

By Ángel Páez
Trials of members of the security forces for human rights violations in Peru, especially in cases of massacres of civilians, are moving very slowly, creating "the perception of a climate of impunity," said United Nations expert Martin Scheinin at the conclusion of a visit to the country.
Hilaria Supa in front of signboard of Congress Credit: Virgilio Grajeda/IPS

PERU: Quechua Congresswoman Fights Discrimination in Education

By Ángel Páez
Hilaria Supa has broken down many barriers in her life. Now she has overcome another one, in an unprecedented achievement: this Quechua indigenous woman who never went to school is today chair of the congressional education committee in Peru.

CORRUPTION-PERU: Gov’t Tries to Track Down Millions from Convicted Officials

By Ángel Páez
The Peruvian government will try to track down funds hidden away by former officials of the Alberto Fujimori regime (1990-2000) and others sentenced for corruption.
Susana Villarán on campaign trail Credit: Courtesy of La República

PERU: Woman Candidate Breathes New Life into Left

By Ángel Páez
The campaign for the October municipal elections in Peru has brought new hope to the badly weakened left, in the form of Susana Villarán, who has shot up from the "other candidates" category to third in the polls in the race for the mayor's office in Lima.
Approaching the cave where the killers concealed the bodies. Credit: Ángel Páez/IPS

PERU: Unearthing Victims of the Christmas Massacre

By Ángel Páez
The families of 40 villagers murdered in Peru on Christmas Day in 1984 are camping out next to the eight graves in which their loved ones were buried, to keep watch over the slow, painful process of exhuming the bodies, a task that is being carried out by the public prosecutor's office.

PERU: President Admits Corruption Has Tarnished Government

By Ángel Páez
In his Independence Day speech in the Peruvian Congress, which was broadcast nationwide, President Alan García admitted that corruption has tarnished his administration, although he lectured the judicial branch for delays in punishing those responsible.
Angélica Mendoza and Adelina García of ANFASEP, in the Museum of Memory, Ayacucho. Credit: Elías Navarro/IPS

RIGHTS-PERU: No Reparations Yet for Families of Civil War Victims

By Ángel Páez
The families of victims of the political violence in the impoverished southern highlands province of Ayacucho, the epicentre of Peru's 1980-2000 counterinsurgency war, complain that the government of Alan García has set new conditions for the start of the payment of reparations.
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