Tag: Peru

• Monday, August 23rd 2021 - 09:02 UTC

  Peru extends sanitary restrictions until September 5 while new set of measures is devised

  

  Peru's authorities have extended the current COVID-19 sanitary restrictions until September 5, it was announced Sunday.

• Saturday, August 21st 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Investors wary of South American debt in local currencies

  

  South American debt in local currency has become a painful experience for international investors, with little signals of relief and reversal of the situation.

• Saturday, August 21st 2021 - 08:56 UTC

  Former Peruvian Foreign Minister back in office

  

  Peruvian former Foreign Minister Óscar Maúrtua has been appointed again for the job to replace Héctor Béjar, who resigned earlier this week after just 19 days in office.

• Friday, August 20th 2021 - 09:03 UTC

  Peru's Parliament falls short of declaring Evo Morales persona non grata

  

  Peruvian Congress turns down motion to declare Evo Morales “persona non grata”

• Wednesday, August 18th 2021 - 09:34 UTC

  Peru's FM resigns over comments regarding Navy's involvement in bomb attacks in the 1970s

  

  Peru's Foreign Minister Héctor Béjar Tuesday handed in his resignation to President Pedro Castillo, which was accepted. “I am free again!” posted the departing official on social media.

• Wednesday, August 18th 2021 - 07:21 UTC

  Peruvian foreign minister, three weeks in the job, resigns

  

  The Peruvian foreign minister Hector Bejar resigned on Tuesday following some controversial statements about the origins of terrorism in his country, thus becoming the first loss in the cabinet of president Pedro Castillo who took office in July.

• Tuesday, August 17th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  Polls and proposed prime minister bloat disapproval for Peruvian president

  

  No rest for Peruvian president Pedro Castillo, not only opinion polls show that he is the newly inaugurated president with the lowest approval and highest disapproval since 1980, but his candidate for prime minister is again in trouble this time for alleged money laundering and illegal financing of his political campaign as a member of congress.

• Sunday, August 8th 2021 - 13:02 UTC

  Migration crisis in Ecuadorian border town: Clandestine crossings and lack of government support

  

  By Sebastián Astorga (*) – A border town divided between two countries, where before the Covid-19 pandemic people passed through without custom controls, is now divided by fences on the two bridges that cross from Ecuador to Peru in its vicinity, cutting off almost completely the only commercial activity on which it survived and further burdening the situation of the more than ten thousand migrants who are passing through, many of them on foot.

• Thursday, August 5th 2021 - 09:46 UTC

  Peruvian president purges Armed Forces command; names new military chiefs

  

  Peruvian president Pedro Castillo renewed the Armed Forces Joint Command, with the appointment of a new chief and new heads in the Army, Navy and Air Force. The new Joint Command will be headed by the up to now Army commander, General Manuel Gomez de la Torre, and replaced him in the Army with his second in command, General Jose Vizcarra

• Wednesday, August 4th 2021 - 09:57 UTC

  Peru: fractured cabinet, lame duck PM or a patient wolf in waiting?

  

  Peruvian president Pedro Castillo seems to have weathered two political storms involving his Economy and Justice ministers, Pedro Francke, and Anibal Torres acknowledged as outstanding figures in the country, but who refused to join the cabinet because of differences with cabinet chief Guido Bellido, described as a radical left-winger.