Has Regionalization Failed?

PERU - Report 06 Jun 2014 by Roberto Abusada

Executive Summary The discovery of massive corruption in several regional administrations may offer an opportunity to change a system that challenges the very notion of a unified state. Regional presidents have, illegally and erroneously, challenged national authority, trying to treat Peru as a federal state, in claiming authority over water use or underground mineral resources. That has created sometimes-insurmountable difficulties in the development of several large projects. The public is up in arms over the recent corruption cases, as accusations of wrongdoing have surfaced in as many a...

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