Peru: Minister Diez Canseco complains of journalistic smear to destroy him.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

November; subheadings as published

Distressed, with abrupt gestures and without concealing his indignation, First Vice-President Raul Diez Canseco Terry [who is also minister of foreign trade and tourism] claimed that he is the object of a brutal political demolition campaign that is seeking to assassinate him morally, and called the allegation made against him in a local newspaper false and underhand.

"This here (showing the newspaper's front page) is a lack of journalistic ethics that damages the political institution and weakens democracy," he said.

"I want you to know that I make a clear …