Tag: Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

• Tuesday, December 12th 2017 - 08:13 UTC

  Peruvian president admits working for Odebrecht, as financial advisor or irrigation project

  

  Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski acknowledged that he worked as a financial adviser for an irrigation project owned by the Brazilian builder Odebrecht, contradicting his previous denials of having any links to the company. Odebrecht is at the center of Latin America’s biggest graft scandal and has admitted to paying about US$ 30 million in bribes to secure contracts in Peru over a decade.

• Wednesday, September 20th 2017 - 01:46 UTC

  Peru appoints more conservative cabinet following a no confidence vote

  

  Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski made Vice President Mercedes Araoz his new prime minister in a Cabinet shuffle on Sunday that won praise from the opposition - a sign his year-old government will likely avoid a fresh standoff with Congress. Kuczynski also swore in Deputy Economy Minister Claudia Cooper as his new finance minister and replaced his justice, education, health and housing ministers.

• Friday, March 17th 2017 - 06:39 UTC

  Torrential rains and mudslides ravage Peru: thousands left homeless

  

  Muddy water spilled onto streets and into homes on Thursday in a new round of unusually heavy rains that has killed at least a eighteen people in Peru and now threatens flooding in the capital Lima. The intense rains and mudslides over the past three days have wrought havoc around the Andean nation and caught residents in Lima, a desert city of 10 million where it almost never rains, by surprise.

• Sunday, February 26th 2017 - 14:04 UTC

  “I prefer bridges to walls”, Kuczynski tells Trump at the White House

  

  The first Latin American leader to visit U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House said that he told Trump he prefers bridges to walls and favors the free movement of people across borders. However, Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski declined to comment specifically on Trump's proposal to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border to curb illegal immigration and drug trafficking in a press conference following the meeting.

• Tuesday, December 6th 2016 - 06:31 UTC

  Incarcerated ex Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori hospitalized

  

  Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was hospitalized over concerns he may be at risk of cerebral ischemia, a reduced blood supply to the brain, it was reported Monday by authorities of the detention facilities where he is serving a sentence for human rights violations.

• Monday, November 21st 2016 - 12:15 UTC

  APEC summit criticizes protectionism and consider Asia-Pacific free trade area

  

  Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski brought the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit to a close in Lima on Sunday with a message against protectionism and awareness that the meeting was held “at a key moment in the world's economic history.”

• Friday, November 4th 2016 - 22:59 UTC

  Bolivia seeks access to Pacific Ocean via Peruvian por of Ilo

  

  Integration between both countries appears to be on a smooth path after second binational cabinet meeting in Sucre, chaired by Presidents Evo Morales and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. Railway road to Brazilian port of Santos also on the table

• Saturday, August 20th 2016 - 05:40 UTC

  Peru Supreme Court overturns sentence against ex president Fujimori for alleged diversion of public funds

  

  Peru’s Judiciary overturned an eight-year sentence against former president Alberto Fujimori for alleged diversion of public funds to tabloids to facilitate his second re-election in 2000. The Supreme Court said in a ruling “there isn’t enough material evidence” to declare any criminal responsibility of Fujimori, who is serving another 25-year sentence in prison for crimes against humanity.

• Friday, July 29th 2016 - 13:40 UTC

  Kuczynski pledges to modernize Peru and a “social revolution” to fight poverty, racism and corruption

  

  Pedro Pablo Kuczynski took office as Peru's president on Thursday, asking the opposition-controlled Congress to help him fight income inequality and ensure all Peruvians have access to running water, health care and free primary education.

• Thursday, July 28th 2016 - 06:35 UTC

  “Gringo” president with pro-business cabinet and limited congressional support takes office in Peru

  

  Pedro Pablo Kuczynski takes office as Peru's presidency this Thursday with a Cabinet that shares his Ivy League, pro-business pedigree — a reliance on technocrats that could become a liability as he deals with an unfriendly congress, a resurgent left and environment aware peasants and indigenous peoples living on rich natural resources.