Word: peru
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...York City and Chicago last month as dozens of people in white haz-mat suits converged on the offices of JPMorgan Chase to decry what they claimed was the bank's underwriting of illegal logging in Indonesia, and human-rights abuses tied to a Chase-funded mining operation in Peru. Oil companies and industrial giants may be accustomed to such treatment, but not JPMorgan Chase, the second largest bank in the U.S. Two weeks after the protests, the firm announced that it would introduce policies to promote sustainable forestry and indigenous peoples' rights, and block funding that could be used...
Natural resources are far from the only arena in which the Peruvian state has near-absolute jurisdiction. The state’s massive power, combined with the dearth of democratic institutions, has generated a crisis of political legitimacy in Peru and other Latin American countries, often manifesting itself in the form of violence or paralyzing demonstrations...
Vargas Llosa’s politics will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with his father Mario, an internationally renowned novelist who voiced similar opinions during his unsuccessful bid for the presidency of Peru back in 1990, and yet again when father and son campaigned for current president Alejandro Toledo...
Civil society organizations increasingly have a role in policy-making, such as the recent sweeping forestry reforms in Peru and Brazil that prioritized sustainability and protection of indigenous territory...
...though bureaucracy frustrated my own work in Peru, I saw grassroots movements of traditionally marginalized groups make unprecedented economic and social progress...