Tag: Peru

• 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.

• Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 22:48 UTC

  Strong quake felt in Peru, Chile and Bolivia

  

  A strong earthquake rocked Chile, Perú, and Bolivia Thursday morning. Authorities in the three countries are still to release detailed reports on the aftermath of the event.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Uruguay, Peru take preventive action against monkeypox

  

  Uruguayan health authorities announced during the weekend they were monitoring the possible local appearance of suspected cases of monkeypox, based on “the symptomatology and travel history” of individuals.

• Saturday, May 7th 2022 - 10:18 UTC

  New lineage of Omicron variant circulating in Peru

  

  Peru's Health Ministry officials reported this week the finding of a new lineage of the SARS.CoV-2 Omicron variant called BA.1.22.

• 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.

• Wednesday, April 27th 2022 - 21:14 UTC

  Peru declares H3N2 epidemiological alert

  

  Peru's Health Ministry (Minsa) Tuesday issued an epidemiological alert in light of the growing number of Influenza A (H3N2) cases in Ayacucho, Piura, and Lima.

• Saturday, April 23rd 2022 - 10:39 UTC

  Castillo to seek referendum regarding Constitutional reform in Peru

  

  Peruvian President Pedro Castillo Terrones Friday announced he would be launching a public consultation so that the citizenry may decide on whether a new Constitution is wanted or not.

• Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 20:40 UTC

  Warrant issued for preventive arrest of Peruvian President nephews

  

  A Lima judge has ordered the preventive arrest for 36 months of two nephews of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo Terrones as well as of his former aide Bruno Pacheco for their alleged involvement in cases of corruption, it was reported.

• Thursday, April 7th 2022 - 08:16 UTC

  One dead as unrest in Peru mounts

  

  Protests all across Peru demanding the resignation of President Pedro Castillo Terrones have left 1 dead and at least 25 law enforcement officers injured in the town of Ica, south of Lima.