Illegal mining in the Peruvian Parliament: An analysis of the impact of the financing of the Fuerza Popular campaign on the 2016 general elections

• Autor: Brou González, Penélope Soleil
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2019
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/21173
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/politai/article/view/21173
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Lobby; illicit mining; legislative power; political financing; minería ilícita; poder legislativo; financiamiento político

Illicit activities that collect large amounts of money are linked through lobby, campaing financing, and similar activities, with various state sectors and seem to be left aside when analyzing the impact of money on politics. Following this premise, this research is framed within the studies on the political strategies of illegal mining groups in particular in the Madre de Dios Region. The article intends to carry out an exploratory study on the relationship between illegal and informal mining groups and the political party that obtained parliamentary majority in the 2016 general election, Fuerza Popular, arguing that in a personalistic electoral scenario marked by political parties that far from operating with a fixed programmatic line they do in the form of constellations of interests, the campaign financing allow to form nexuses between the financiers and the political candidates. In the case of the Legislative Branch, once the seats have been obtained, this link has led to the discussion of legislative bill that would benefit the economic interests of the illicit miners, which address issues such as non-formalization or the minimization of condemnation of these groups. Being an activity that, being rooted in our country is connected with other illicit activities such as drug trafficking or human trafficking, it is very important to analyze the link it maintains with peruvian politics to reveal the ways in which these activities remain outside the law.