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Tag: Peru

  • Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

    Peru takes over CAN's pro tempore presidency

    Argentina's joining the group was suggested

    Peruvian President Pedro Castillo Terrones Monday welcomed his colleagues from Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia, Luis Arce for the Council of the Andean Community (CAN) summit in Lima.

  • Monday, August 29th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

    Peruvian president's sister-in-law handed down 30-month detention

    Castillo has denied the accusations and claimed the prosecution was trying to make him look corrupt

    Peruvian Judge Jhonny Gómez Sunday ordered the pre-trial detention for 30 months of President Pedro Castillo Terrones' sister-in-law Yenifer Paredes and other defendants in a corruption case because they posed a flight risk, among other reasons.

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

    Peru tops list of food insecure countries in the region

    Most Peruvians cannot afford a healthy diet and many of them go a day or two with nothing to eat, Escobar explained.

    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

    José must be wounded and hiding somewhere, General Gómez de la Torre said

    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

    Most cases in Peru were men

    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”

    With the departure of the Prime Minister, all cabinet members must submit their resignation to the President

    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

    “Apparently it would be an imported case, but studies have to be carried out to the utmost,” Auza said about the first infection confirmed in Bolivia

    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

    Tourists had blocked the railway to protest the lack of tickets to visit the iconic Inca citadel

    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

    Pacheco said he was willing “to collaborate with justice and tell the truth in all cases that are linked to me”

    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

    Castillo insisted no evidence had been found against him, although many of his aides and relatives were proven to be involved in illegal activities

    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.