Tag: Peru

• Tuesday, December 11th 2018 - 09:24 UTC

  Russian helicopter maintenance hangar opened in Peru

  

  Russian-made Mil Mi helicopters can now undergo maintenance and repairs in Lima, Peru, after facilities to carry out those tasks were opened Monday within a local Air Force compound, it was announced.

• Tuesday, December 11th 2018 - 08:24 UTC

  OAS Mission congratulates Peruvians for the peaceful Sunday vote

  

  The Electoral Experts Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) congratulated Peruvian citizens for a peaceful vote in which they expressed their will in a decisive way. The Mission also congratulated electoral authorities on their ability to organize in a short-term the national referendum on December 9.

• Thursday, December 6th 2018 - 09:20 UTC

  Illegal financing of political parties now punishable by jail in Peru

  

  Peru's Congress Wednesday passed the bill which adds illicit financing of political organizations to the Penal Code, it was announced.

• Monday, December 3rd 2018 - 15:24 UTC

  Uruguay rejects Peruvian ex-president Alan García's asylum petition

  

  Uruguay’s President, Tabaré Vázquez announced Monday along with Uruguayan Foreign Minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa that Peruvian former president Alan García will not receive political asylum. The rejection of the request is due to the fact that in Peru “the three powers of the State operate” freely, said Vázquez.

• Friday, November 23rd 2018 - 10:10 UTC

  Nobody hurt as Peruvian airliner crash-lands at La Paz

  

  A Peruvian Airlines Boeing 737-500 registered OB-2041P, coming from Cuzco, crash-landed Thursday morning at La Paz's El Alto airport after problems with its undercarriage, it was reported.

• Thursday, November 22nd 2018 - 09:05 UTC

  Fourteen air forces involved in combat exercises in northeast Brazil

  

  The air forces of 14 nations including the United States are taking part this week in air combat exercises and non-conventional warfare training at a base in northern Brazil, the Brazilian Air Force said on Wednesday.

• Monday, November 19th 2018 - 18:17 UTC

  Asylum to Alan García: Why Uruguay?

  

  The Territorial Asylum right under which Peru's former President Alan García seeks to protect himself, investigated by the Justice of his country, is framed in a convention signed in Caracas, Venezuela that provides that every State belonging to the Organization of American States (OAS) has the right to admit “the persons it deems appropriate.” Garcia's hope is based on Uruguay's record of respect for this right.

• 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.