Peru is confronted with a rapid escalation of the action of organized crime, but a series of new laws prevents the struggle against this scourge, reported Human Rights Watch, HRW, HRW.
Although the government declared an emergency by developing the armed forces on the streets in various areas, laws approved by 2023 critical the powers of prosecutors and courts, HRW explained.
According to the NGO, which reminds that half of the Peruvian Congress are faced with investigations of corruption or other criminal cases, parliament, with a conservative majority, in essence subjugates, allows the “Progress of organized crime” could be accused of being “synergy”.
HRW examined 34 laws and acts of legislative content, as well as 54 executive decrees issued by the President Dina Boluarteand concluded that they resulted in the “drastic restriction of prosecutors’ powers to conduct investigations.
It is about “A harsh blow to efforts to dismiss criminal organizations and to reveal relations with corrupt government officials”the NGO was over.
Pointed out in particular “Modification of the definition of organized crime in the Criminal Code to exclude many corruption offenses.”
According to official statistics, the number of homicides on an annual basis in the Andean state increased by 137% in the period from 2018 to 2024. Half of the homicides are committed by paid killers, the Latin American authorities estimate.
Source :Skai
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