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.

DISARMAMENT: Taking Aim at Those Who Finance Cluster Bombs

By Ángel Páez
A future international treaty to ban cluster munitions should prohibit financial institutions from investing in companies that manufacture the weapons, Thomas Nash, coordinator of the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC), told IPS in the Peruvian capital.

RIGHTS-PERU: Fujimori in the General’s Labyrinth

By Ángel Páez
Testimony given by retired General Nicolás Hermoza, head of the Peruvian armed forces between 1991 and 1998, will help strengthen the case for former president Alberto Fujimori's extradition from Chile, on charges of crimes against humanity.

PERU: Fujimori Denies Knowledge of Military Abuses

By Ángel Páez
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) is blaming the commanders of the armed forces during his regime for the criminal acts of which he stands accused, in an attempt to avoid extradition from Chile to Peru to face the charges against him.

PERU: Setting the Drug Lords Free

By Ángel Páez
Releasing alleged or convicted drug traffickers from prison is becoming common practice in the Peruvian justice system.

PERU: Human Rights Violators Find Ready Employment

By Ángel Páez
Governing party supporters accused of committing human rights violations during the first administration (1985-1990) of Peruvian President Alan García, who was voted back into office in 2006, today hold high-level public posts, despite criticism from the opposition.

PERU: Lax Sentences Bode Poorly for Fight Against Corruption

By Ángel Páez
Authorities in Peru expect the Chilean Supreme Court to decide on the extradition request for former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), wanted for crimes against humanity and corruption, by the middle of this year.

PERU: Lax Sentences Bode Poorly for Fight Against Corruption

By Ángel Páez
Authorities in Peru expect the Chilean Supreme Court to decide on the extradition request for former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), wanted for crimes against humanity and corruption, by the middle of this year.

PERU: UN Mission Probes Private Security Groups

By Ángel Páez
A priest who provides support for Peruvian farmers in their conflict with a transnational gold mining corporation complained to a United Nations mission that he was under surveillance by a private security company.

PERU: Former Death Squad Member Implicates President Garcia

By Ángel Páez
"They already kidnapped, tortured and shot me once for informing on the (paramilitary) group that was made up of militant members of the APRA party, like me. Now that the party is once again in power, I have no doubt that they might try it again," Miguel Exebio Reyes told IPS in a clandestine interview.

PERU: Former Death Squad Member Implicates President Garcia

By Ángel Páez
"They already kidnapped, tortured and shot me once for informing on the (paramilitary) group that was made up of militant members of the APRA party, like me. Now that the party is once again in power, I have no doubt that they might try it again," Miguel Exebio Reyes told IPS in a clandestine interview.

DEATH PENALTY-PERU: President’s Bid Unlikely to Save Bill

By Ángel Páez
In an attempt to overcome the congressional defeat suffered by his death penalty bill, Peruvian President Alan García said he would seek a referendum to allow citizens to vote on whether or not they want capital punishment for terrorists.

PERU: Apristas, Fujimoristas Back Law Increasing Oversight of NGOs

By Ángel Páez
The governing Peruvian Aprista Party and pro-Fujimori members of Congress demonstrated their virtual alliance by passing a law that will allow the state to exert greater control over non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

RIGHTS-PERU: The Struggle for Reparations – in Quechua

By Ángel Páez
Isabel Limancca can express herself much better in Quechua. But she speaks Spanish well enough to wage a struggle against the Peruvian state from this remote town in Peru's southern Andean highlands.

RIGHTS-PERU: The Struggle for Reparations – in Quechua

By Ángel Páez
Isabel Limancca can express herself much better in Quechua. But she speaks Spanish well enough to wage a struggle against the Peruvian state from this remote town in Peru's southern Andean highlands.

RIGHTS-PERU: Civil War Erased Even the Victims’ Names

By Ángel Páez
If they are lucky, they have a photograph to remember their dead family members, killed by Maoist guerrillas, soldiers, or members of paramilitary groups during Peru's 1980-2000 civil war. There are also numerous common graves with the unidentified remains of victims.

DEATH PENALTY-PERU: Alan Garcia’s New-Found Faith in the Firing Squad

By Ángel Páez
Within the first 100 days of his administration, Peru's President Alan García has put forward two proposals for applying the death penalty: for raping children and terrorism. But Congress is not in as much of a hurry to pass the president's draft laws as he is.

PERU: Special Defence for Rights Abusers, Not Victims

By Ángel Páez
In Peru everyone has the right to a public defender - but some have a greater right than others.

RIGHTS-PERU: Time Is of the Essence in Extradition of War Criminal

By Ángel Páez
Retired Peruvian army major Telmo Hurtado, a fugitive from justice who is living in the United States, could escape charges of crimes against humanity if authorities in both countries do not move ahead quickly on the requests for his preventive arrest and extradition.

PERU: Congress to Debate Death Penalty for Child Rapists

By Ángel Páez
Three different draft laws have been announced in Peru to expand the death penalty to child rapists, who are "not human beings" but "abominable, execrable and monstrous" creatures who "have no rights," according to one of the initiatives.

CORRUPTION-PERU: Supreme Court Justice for 300 Dollars

By Ángel Páez
The case of a Supreme Court justice in Peru caught red-handed taking a 300 dollar bribe has shaken the country, as the magistrate was sitting on the chamber of the Court that is to try former president Alberto Fujimori, whose regime was riddled with corruption.

DRUGS-PERU: Traffickers Do Not Live by Tinned Vegetables Alone

By Ángel Páez
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