Tag: Peru

• Thursday, August 5th 2021 - 09:46 UTC

  Peruvian president purges Armed Forces command; names new military chiefs

  

  Peruvian president Pedro Castillo renewed the Armed Forces Joint Command, with the appointment of a new chief and new heads in the Army, Navy and Air Force. The new Joint Command will be headed by the up to now Army commander, General Manuel Gomez de la Torre, and replaced him in the Army with his second in command, General Jose Vizcarra

• Wednesday, August 4th 2021 - 09:57 UTC

  Peru: fractured cabinet, lame duck PM or a patient wolf in waiting?

  

  Peruvian president Pedro Castillo seems to have weathered two political storms involving his Economy and Justice ministers, Pedro Francke, and Anibal Torres acknowledged as outstanding figures in the country, but who refused to join the cabinet because of differences with cabinet chief Guido Bellido, described as a radical left-winger.

• Saturday, July 31st 2021 - 07:22 UTC

  Bad start for Peruvian president Castillo, two trips in two days

  

  Another bump in the head for the stubborn Peruvian president Pedro Castillo who took office this week. Not only his nomination for prime minister Guido Bellido has been questioned as a former admirer of a terrorist group that ravaged Peru in the eighties and nineties, but now repeats with his foreign minister, Hector Béjar, a former guerrilla member, with academic background who in his books praises armed revolution, “with no forgiveness”.

• Friday, July 30th 2021 - 07:28 UTC

  New Peruvian President appoints leftist congressman Guido Bellido as PM

  

  Peru's President Pedro Castillo Thursday appointed Congressman Guido Bellido Ugarte of his Peru Libre leftwing party to become the country's new Prime Minister, while the remaining members of the cabinet are still due to take office.

• Thursday, July 29th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Pedro Castillo sworn in as Peru's new president

  

  Pedro Castillo Terrones has been sworn in Wednesday as Peru's new President for the 2021-2026 term just barely a week after being declared the winner of the June 6 runoff against conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori.

• Tuesday, July 27th 2021 - 09:42 UTC

  Bad start for Castillo in Peru: he does not have control over congress

  

  As anticipated Peruvian Socialist elect president Pedro Castillo was unable to gain control of the one-house Congress, which on Monday chose the candidate of an opposition-led alliance.

• Wednesday, July 21st 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Peru's President-elect outlines plans which include people from every political background

  

  Peru's President-elect Pedro Castillo Tuesday sought to calm down a shaken country just one day after being declared the winner.

• Tuesday, July 20th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Castillo to be Peru's next president after all

  

  Peru's National Electoral Jury (JNE) Monday declared leftist Pedro Castillo has won June 6's presidential runoff by 44,263 votes (50.12%) over the conservative Keiko Fujimori.

• Monday, July 12th 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  Peruvian prosecution to investigate Keiko Fujimori's alleged “disturbing of the vote”

  

  Peru's State Attorney has announced conservative presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori is to be investigated for allegedly disturbing the electoral process through the filing of 760 requests for annulment of different polling stations after June 6's presidential runoff.

• Wednesday, July 7th 2021 - 09:06 UTC

  Peru's middle class shrinks from 43% to 24% during 2020

  

  A new study released Tuesday by the Institute of Economics and Business Development (Iedep) of the Lima Chamber of Commerce showed that some 6.3 million Peruvians fell from the country's middle-class social group during 2020.