Tag: Pedro Castillo

• Tuesday, July 26th 2022 - 20:20 UTC

  Former Peruvian Presidential Secretary turns himself in

  

  Bruno Pacheco, the former Peruvian Presidential Secretary and one of the most wanted men in the country turned himself in Tuesday. He is under investigation in a series of corruption scandals for which the head of state Pedro Castillo Terrones has already been summoned to testify. He had been at large for over 100 days.

• Saturday, July 23rd 2022 - 10:28 UTC

  Peru: Case against Castillo reopened despite immunity

  

  Peruvian judiciary authorities have launched the fifth active inquest into President Pedro Castillo Terrones' alleged involvement in acts of corruption, it was announced Friday in Lima, after Prosecutor Patricia Benavides reopened the case once opened by Zoraida Ávalos on the purchase of biodiesel from Heaven Petroleum.

• Monday, July 18th 2022 - 09:11 UTC

  Peruvian President's approval ratings keep sinking

  

  Peruvian President Pedro Castillo Terrones' approval ratings fell yet again, according to an Ipsos survey released Sunday by the Lima newspaper El Comercio. Meanwhile, 79% of Peruvians also disapproved of the management of Congress, the study showed.

• Tuesday, July 5th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Peruvian President's sister-in-law linked to alleged corruption case

  

  Peruvian Prosecutors Monday announced the opening of a preliminary investigation that targets President Pedro Castillo Terrones' sister-in-law Jenifer Paredes, who was reported in a TV show aired Sunday as being involved in an alleged corruption scheme in a sanitation project in Cajamarca, the president's native region.

• Friday, July 1st 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Castillo resigns as member of party that took him to Peru's presidency

  

  Peru's President Pedro Castillo Terrones has resigned from Perú Libre, the party under which he ran for office and beat Keiko Fujimori's Fuerza Popular in last year's runoff. Castillo's enrolment as a party member dated from Sept. 30, 2020.

• Thursday, June 30th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Peru's President wanted out of the political party that took him to the job

  

  After winning the presidential runoff over Conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori, President Pedro Castillo Terrones has been accused by his Peru Libre political force of having broken party unity and applying neoliberal policies at odds with the group's leftist stance.

• Saturday, June 4th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Peru: audio of Congress Speaker Alva planning Castillo's sacking goes viral

  

  Peruvian Congress Speaker Maria del Carmen Alva has been recorded last year granting President Pedro Castillo was going to be impeached out of office. These audios went viral Friday on social media.

• Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  Peru's President takes steps to attend Los Angeles Summit

  

  Peru's President Pedro Castillo Terrones has filed a request before the National Congress to be allowed to leave the country between June 7 and 12 to attend the IX Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California.

• Wednesday, May 4th 2022 - 22:15 UTC

  Peru's President said to have plagiarized university thesis a decade ago

  

  Peru's President Pedro Castillo Terrones Wednesday rejected allegations that he and his wife Liliana Paredes had plagiarized the contents of the thesis they filed to get a Masters' Degree in Educational Psychology at the César Vallejo private university a decade ago.

• Thursday, April 28th 2022 - 20:56 UTC

  Merely 7% of Peruvians believe new constitution a priority

  

  According to a survey published Wednesday by Lima's El Comercio, only 7% of Peruvians believed a new Constitution was among the people's priorities.