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Montevideo, April 15th 2025 - 21:35 UTC

Tag: Peru

  • Wednesday, November 8th 2023 - 10:15 UTC

    New Foreign Minister appointed in Peru

    Gonzalez-Olaechea is known for his conservative stance

    Political Scientist Javier Gonzalez-Olaechea Franco was sworn in Tuesday as Peru’s new Foreign Minister following the resignation of Ana Cecilia Gervasi over sloppy arrangements for a one-on-one presidential meeting between Dina Boluarte and her US colleague Joseph Biden in Washington DC.

  • Tuesday, November 7th 2023 - 10:24 UTC

    Peru's Foreign Minister resigns after Biden meeting fiasco

    Gervasi had been on the post since December 2022

    Ana Cecilia Gervasi Monday turned in her resignation as Foreign Minister of Peru following strong criticism over a failed bilateral meeting between President Dina Boluarte and her US counterpart Joseph Biden during last week’s summit of leaders of the Americas in Washington DC.

  • Thursday, October 26th 2023 - 09:03 UTC

    Presidents of Peru and Ecuador ratify “historic friendship”

    “The current relationship between Peru and Ecuador is an inspiring example,” Lasso told Boluarte

    Presidents Dina Boluarte of Peru and Guillermo Lasso of Ecuador Wednesday ratified a “historic friendship and cooperation ties” between the two countries, 25 years after the signing of the Comprehensive and Definitive Peace Agreement, which in 1998 put an end to the armed conflict over a territorial dispute.

  • Friday, October 20th 2023 - 10:41 UTC

    Peruvian Prime Minister targeted by prosecution probe

    Otárola is said to have met before with people who were awarded juicy government contracts

    Peruvian prosecutors have opened an investigation against Prime Minister Alberto Otálora for his alleged involvement in acts of corruption, it was reported Thursday in Lima.

  • Saturday, October 7th 2023 - 10:17 UTC

    Sentence against Peru Libre leader reduced

    Cerrón obtained a more lenient sentence on appeal

    Peru's Judiciary Friday upheld a prison sentence of three years and a half imposed on leftwing political leader Vladimir Cerrón for corruption, it was reported in Lima.

  • Saturday, September 23rd 2023 - 09:36 UTC

    New legislation decriminalizes self-defense in Peru

    The initiative was mooted by Congresswoman Patricia Chirinos of the rightwing party Avanza País

    Peru's one-house Congress has allowed the use of lethal force in case of “imminent danger” in a move to protect the citizenry. President Dina Boluarte has signed the bill into law, it was reported in Lima.

  • Monday, September 18th 2023 - 09:53 UTC

    Peru: Boluarte's gov't targets freedom of the press

    Boluarte's government has downplayed rumors that it might be trying to wage a Bukele-style war on crime

    Journalist guilds in Peru have expressed their concern about restrictions on freedom the government of President Dina Boluarte is planning to exert through changes to the Penal Code to hold demonstrators and reporters criminally accountable, it was reported in Lima.

  • Thursday, September 14th 2023 - 10:09 UTC

    Peru to allocate green debt swap to tropical forest protection in Amazon

    It was Peru's third swap after similar deals in 2002 and 2008

    The Peruvian administration of President Dina Boluarte pledged to use the proceeds from a US$ 20 million debt swap with the United States for climate action in the Amazon to finance a tropical forest protection fund over the next 13 years, it was reported Wednesday in Lima. It is the third debt-for-nature swap between the two governments.

  • Tuesday, September 5th 2023 - 09:40 UTC

    Peru: Shining Path attack results in 6 people killed

    “My deepest condolences to the families of the four courageous members of the Peruvian army who died in Putis, Ayacucho,” Boluarte said on social networks

    Four Peruvian troops and two members of the Shining Path terrorist group were killed in a gunfight in the department of Ayacucho where a law enforcement patrol was performing “territorial control actions,” it was reported from Lima by the Joint Command of the Armed Forces. Remnants of the Maoist rebel group once focused on overthrowing the government have turned to drug trafficking.

  • Monday, September 4th 2023 - 11:26 UTC

    Peru: State of Emergency around Ubinas volcano extended

    The Ubinas is, together with Sabancaya, the most active volcano in Peru

    Peru's Government extended for another 60 days starting Monday the State of Emergency decreed around the erupting Ubinas volcano in the Moquegua region, some 1,250 km south of Lima, it was published Sunday in El Peruano (Official Gazette).