Tag: Peru

• Monday, August 22nd 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Peru tops list of food insecure countries in the region

  

  Peru has been singled out as the country with the highest rates in South America of people living under food insecurity, it was reported.

• Friday, August 19th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Peruvian forces hit Shining Path rebels, many killed

  

  Peruvian regular forces gunned down between 10 and 15 members of the Shining Path rebel group during an “Operation Patriot” deployment in which the rebels' leader Víctor Quispe Palomino, also known as “Comrade José”, managed to escape despite being wounded.

• Thursday, August 18th 2022 - 09:16 UTC

  Cases of monkeypox soar in Peru

  

  Peru has the highest monkeypox infection rate per million inhabitants and it also ranks third in the world behind the United States and Canada, the latest Oxford University global monkeypox surveillance study released Wednesday showed.

• Thursday, August 4th 2022 - 10:40 UTC

  Peru's PM resigns for “personal reasons”

  

  Aníbal Torres Wednesday turned in his resignation as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Peru (Prime Minister) to President Pedro Castillo Terrones citing “personal reasons,” it was reported in Lima.

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2022 - 09:36 UTC

  Peru reports first death of patient with monkeypox

  

  Peruvian health authorities Monday confirmed the first death of a patient with monkeypox in the continent's country second worst hit by the outbreak, while neighboring Bolivia confirmed the first infection.

• Friday, July 29th 2022 - 19:20 UTC

  Machu Picchu increases capacity to appease angry tourists

  

  Operators at the Machu Picchu Inca citadel in Peru have agreed to increase the site's capacity from 4,000 to slightly over 5,000 tourists after protests from would-be travelers, it was announced Thursday.

• 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.

• Saturday, July 16th 2022 - 10:22 UTC

  Peruvian Congress prevents the OAS General Assembly from being held for rejecting non-binary bathrooms

  

  The General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) scheduled for October is at risk, as the Peruvian Congress insists on rejecting the installation of a “neutral” or non-binary restroom during the meeting, to be held in Lima, the capital of the country.

• Friday, July 15th 2022 - 10:18 UTC

  Cocaine production in Bolivia “stable,” US agency reports

  

  The United States' Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Thursday published a report thoroughly describing crops and distribution activities in Bolivia, Peru and Colombia.