Stories written by Milagros Salazar
Milagros Salazar started her career with IPS in June 2006. She specialises in social and environmental conflicts, in particular those relating to the mining, oil and gas industries in Peru. She also writes about the illegal production and trade of cocaine throughout country. Salazar also writes for the political pages of the daily La República, published in Lima. Since 1993, she has been working as an editor and correspondent for several national dailies, including Expreso and El Peruano. Born in Lima in 1976, Salazar holds a bachelor’s degree in social communication from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and a master’s degree in human rights from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú. She has also pursued further study on political governance as part of programmes sponsored by the U.S.-based George Washington University.

PERU: President Garcia Floats Hope for Waterless City Dwellers

By Milagros Salazar
Seventy percent of residents in the Peruvian capital’s northwestern Carabayllo district lack drinking water - but they represent only a fraction of the seven million people in this South American country of 27 million with no piped water.

PERU: Leaching Out the Water with the Gold

By Milagros Salazar
The conflict that brought operations at Yanacocha, Latin America's largest gold mine, to a halt just a month after President Alan García took office in Peru was merely the latest illustration of the tensions between mining companies and local communities in the northern province of Cajamarca.

PERU: ‘Voluntary Payment’ Instead of Taxes for Mining Firms

By Milagros Salazar
Peruvian Prime Minister Jorge del Castillo told Congress that private mining companies operating in Peru would make a "voluntary payment" of 757.5 million dollars over the next five years, to go towards fighting poverty. However, they will not pay the tax on windfall profits that new President Alan García had promised in his campaign.

PERU: Beggar on a Throne of Gold

By Milagros Salazar
Mining companies operating in Peru are seeing increasing millions in profits as a result of the surge in international prices for metals, but few are contributing what is needed to alleviate the poverty of the people living in mining areas.

PERU: Indigenous Community to Take Oil Company to Court

By Milagros Salazar
Arankartuktaram! This Achuar cry sums up what indigenous communities in the heart of Peru's Amazon jungle region are demanding from the State and multinational oil companies - a little respect.

DRUGS-PERU: Cocaleros Carve a Niche in Congress

By Milagros Salazar
Long represented in Bolivia's political institutions, another cocalero movement has gained a formal foothold in the Andean region - this time in the legislature in neighbouring Peru.
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