Tag: Peru

• Monday, November 19th 2018 - 16:37 UTC

  Uruguay grants asylum to ex Peruvian president Alan Garcia

  

  Uruguay will grant asylum to Peruvian ex-president Alan Garcia, announced the country's foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa on Sunday evening when he was asked about the request. “The answer is yes”, said the minister in Montevideo.

• Friday, November 2nd 2018 - 17:45 UTC

  With Keiko Fujimori in prison, Peruvian president calls for a fight against corruption without partisan “armoring”

  

  The president of Peru, Martín Vizcarra, called on Friday to fight against corruption in favor of democracy “without threats, or armoring”, by opposing criticism on the judicial ruling that keeps the opposition leader Keiko Fujimori in preventive detention since Wednesday.

• Thursday, November 1st 2018 - 17:00 UTC

  Venezuelans arriving in Peru as of November 1 to be treated “as tourists”

  

  Venezuelan citizens arriving in Peru from now on are to be considered “tourists,” Migrations Planning Manager Francisco Ríos explained Thursday after the deadline to apply for temporary residence expired on October 31.

• Thursday, November 1st 2018 - 08:40 UTC

  Peruvian powerful leader Keiko Fujimori ordered to jail on corruption charges

  

  Former Peruvian first daughter Keiko Fujimori was ordered back to jail Wednesday in a case that has captured attention in a country reeling from a series of corruption scandals reaching into the highest echelons of power.

• Wednesday, October 31st 2018 - 18:51 UTC

  Venezuelan refugees line up at Peruvian border as immigration deadline looms over

  

  As Peru's deadline for granting residency nears, 6,000 Venezuelans lined up at the border Peru's Tuesday hoping to be allowed in, while 4,000 more are expected to join in the next two days, according to the ombudsman's office.

• Friday, October 19th 2018 - 09:15 UTC

  Human rights violations and environmental disasters: What leaves the Chinese investment in Latin America

  

  Chinese companies present a pattern of violations of human and environmental rights in Latin America, according to a report revealed by the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH).

• Tuesday, October 16th 2018 - 08:32 UTC

  Public opinion support for Peruvian president in his struggle with Congress

  

  Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra’s approval rating shot up 16 points to a high of 61% in October, after he adopted a harder line with the opposition-run Congress, a monthly Ipsos poll showed on Sunday.

• Wednesday, October 10th 2018 - 19:01 UTC

  Leader Keiko Fujimori arrested for money laundering in Peru

  

  A week after the justice annulled the pardon to her father, the former president Alberto Fujimori, after a request of the Peru's Attorney of Wash of Assets, the powerful leader of the Popular Force party, Keiko Fujimori, was arrested in Lima on Wednesday after going to a court to be questioned with her husband. The arrest occurred amid an investigation for alleged irregular handling of funds of the party's campaign for 2011 presidential elections.

• Wednesday, October 10th 2018 - 16:43 UTC

  Vizcarra calls for constitutional reform referendum to be held Dec. 9

  

  Peru's President Martín Vizcarra issued a supreme decree calling for a referendum to be held on Sunday, December 9, so that Peruvians can determine on four matters put forward for an upcoming constitutional reform approved by a Congressional plenum on October 4.

• Friday, October 5th 2018 - 08:25 UTC

  Fujimori pleads for his life: a return to prison means a “death sentence”

  

  Peru's ex-president Alberto Fujimori said from his hospital bed on Thursday that a return to prison would be a “death sentence,” the day after a court revoked a pardon for crimes against humanity. Fujimori, 80, addressed a plea to Peru's President Martin Vizcarra and the country's judiciary in a video recorded at his bedside.