Tag: Peru

• 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.

• Saturday, July 31st 2021 - 07:22 UTC

  Bad start for Peruvian president Castillo, two trips in two days

  

  Another bump in the head for the stubborn Peruvian president Pedro Castillo who took office this week. Not only his nomination for prime minister Guido Bellido has been questioned as a former admirer of a terrorist group that ravaged Peru in the eighties and nineties, but now repeats with his foreign minister, Hector Béjar, a former guerrilla member, with academic background who in his books praises armed revolution, “with no forgiveness”.

• Friday, July 30th 2021 - 07:28 UTC

  New Peruvian President appoints leftist congressman Guido Bellido as PM

  

  Peru's President Pedro Castillo Thursday appointed Congressman Guido Bellido Ugarte of his Peru Libre leftwing party to become the country's new Prime Minister, while the remaining members of the cabinet are still due to take office.

• Thursday, July 29th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Pedro Castillo sworn in as Peru's new president

  

  Pedro Castillo Terrones has been sworn in Wednesday as Peru's new President for the 2021-2026 term just barely a week after being declared the winner of the June 6 runoff against conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori.

• Tuesday, July 27th 2021 - 09:42 UTC

  Bad start for Castillo in Peru: he does not have control over congress

  

  As anticipated Peruvian Socialist elect president Pedro Castillo was unable to gain control of the one-house Congress, which on Monday chose the candidate of an opposition-led alliance.