Peruvia

• US Says Peru Lining Up Labor Code For Trade Deal (Reuters, Missy Ryan)
  
  WASHINGTON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers will push a trade deal with Peru closer to a vote come September, once the Andean country brings its labor code in line with U.S. lawmakers' demands, a senior U.S. lawmaker said on Wednesday.
  
  "The (labor) language is such that it would allow us -- once it's done, and it will be done -- to move on this swiftly in September," Rep. Charles Rangel, head of the House Ways and Means Committee, said in an interview with Reuters conducted after he returned from a congressional mission to Lima.
  
  
  

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• 'Rangel Predicts Action on Peru Pact' (Associated Press, Edison Lopez)

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The U.S. Congress will give priority treatment to approval of a free trade pact between the U.S. and Peru when it reconvenes in September, the powerful head of the Ways and Means Committee promised Monday during a visit to Lima.

"It is a priority when we return to the Congress in September," Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., told reporters after meeting with President Alan Garcia to discuss the agreement.

He was accompanied by Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., and Rep. Allyson Schwartz, D-Pa."

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University of Southern California Professor Abraham F. Lowenthal has published 'Peru: Alan Garcia's First Year' in AmericaEconomia. "Peru now lacks the imminent threat that might have forced a more sustained an aggressive focus on the Andean highlands, the eastern jungle and the disaffected majority. If Alan Garcia continues to privilege immediate tactics over longer term national strategy, he will likely leave Peru's biggest problem to fester."
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