BESET PERU SEEKS TO STRENGTHEN THE LEGAL BATTLE AGAINST GUERRILLAS, REVEALING ITS JUDICIAL SHORTCOMINGS
Lawyers and politicians say the system has failed to convict suspected terrorists or to protect the human rights of the population in general. When a local think tank recently asked 1,000 Peruvians to identify the nation's least effective institutions, the courts came in second, sandwiched between the social security system and the police.