Tag: Hector Bejar

• Saturday, August 21st 2021 - 08:56 UTC

  Former Peruvian Foreign Minister back in office

  

  Peruvian former Foreign Minister Óscar Maúrtua has been appointed again for the job to replace Héctor Béjar, who resigned earlier this week after just 19 days in office.

• Wednesday, August 18th 2021 - 09:34 UTC

  Peru's FM resigns over comments regarding Navy's involvement in bomb attacks in the 1970s

  

  Peru's Foreign Minister Héctor Béjar Tuesday handed in his resignation to President Pedro Castillo, which was accepted. “I am free again!” posted the departing official on social media.

• Wednesday, August 18th 2021 - 07:21 UTC

  Peruvian foreign minister, three weeks in the job, resigns

  

  The Peruvian foreign minister Hector Bejar resigned on Tuesday following some controversial statements about the origins of terrorism in his country, thus becoming the first loss in the cabinet of president Pedro Castillo who took office in July.

• 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”.