Prosecutorial agency, backlash and resistance in the Peruvian chapter of Lava Jato by Baraybar, V, Gonzalez-Ocantos, EA

“…One interesting feature of Peru’s Lava Jato is that prosecutors not only had to deal with an obstructionist political class, but also with networks of judicial clientelism commanded by senior officials. The chapter traces how rank-and-file prosecutors negotiated such bureaucratic pathologies to protect the inquiry, and discusses the likely impact of these struggles on the future of the case.…”