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Montevideo, December 5th 2025 - 06:03 UTC

Tag: Peru

  • Sunday, August 19th 2018 - 18:26 UTC

    Complications for the diaspora: Venezuelans can only flee with a passport to Peru or Ecuador

    Peruvian Migration Office recorded last Saturday the largest number of Venezuelan citizens who entered the country in a single day: more than 5,100 people.

    The Ministry of the Interior of Peru has announced that as of the dawn of next Saturday, August 25, Venezuelans will be required to present their passport to be admitted to the country. This measure coincides with that taken by Ecuador this week when it reached record figures in the entry of Venezuelan citizens in that country. The National Superintendency of Migrations of Peru recorded last Saturday the largest number of Venezuelan citizens who entered the country in a single day: more than 5,100.

  • Friday, July 20th 2018 - 10:47 UTC

    Peru shocked at the extent of corruption in the Judicial branch; head Justice resigns

    In a short letter shared on Twitter, judicial chief Duberli Rodriguez announced he was tendering his resignation “due to the institutional crisis.”

    The head of Peru's judicial branch resigned on Thursday in the wake of a mounting corruption scandal involving secret phone recordings capturing numerous judges making behind-the-scenes deals on everything from promotions to criminal sentences.

  • Thursday, July 12th 2018 - 17:37 UTC

    Peruvians against corrupt judiciary - President Vizcarra announces reforms

    Peru's President Martín Vizcarra on Wednesday launched a plan for a judicial reform to end the “rot” within that branch of government.

    Thousands of Peruvians marched Wednesday evening in Lima to protest against corruption in the justice system, after recordings of unproper behaviour by judges and members of the Council of the Magistracy were aired.The demonstration began from Plaza San Martin and toured Lima's historic downtown on its way to the Main Courthouse building and back to Plaza San Martín.

  • Saturday, July 7th 2018 - 06:48 UTC

    Some 50.000 tourists gather for the Sun Festival at Cuzco in the Peruvian Andes

    Sacsayhuaman Archaeological Park welcomed more than 50,000 domestic and foreign tourists, who witnessed the main festivity of the stunning festival.

    Some 50,000 people gathered on the surrounding hills of Cusco (Emufec) in Peru with the purpose of seeing the impressive Inti Raymi event, which takes place on 3 scenes staged in 3 different places.

  • Friday, June 29th 2018 - 05:11 UTC

    President Vizcarra claims corruption costs Peru US$ 3 billion annually

    Vizcarra, Peru's former vice president, took office in March after his predecessor Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (R) stepped down amid corruption allegations.

    President Martin Vizcarra said that the Peruvian government will enforce a “zero tolerance” policy against corruption amid a spreading bribery scandal that has involved at least three former presidents.

  • Monday, May 21st 2018 - 09:06 UTC

    Boris Johnson, first foreign secretary to visit Peru in fifty years

    Mr. Johnson joined Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra and other high level Peruvian officials on a visit to Iquitos, located in the Amazon.

    Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson spent the first of his five-day visit to Latin America in Peru on Saturday 19 May. In the first visit of a British Foreign Secretary to Peru in over 50 years, Mr. Johnson joined Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra and other high level Peruvian officials on a visit to Iquitos, located in the Amazon.

  • Saturday, April 14th 2018 - 10:49 UTC

    Corruption and Venezuela in the agenda of a subdued Summit of the Americas

    “We should build a continent where citizens are first,” Peruvian president Vizcarra said. “We owe it to them. We owe it to their dreams.”

    Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra opened on Friday a subdued Summit of the Americas decrying widespread corruption and urging regional leaders to join forces in increasing transparency and boosting civil society. Addressing Western Hemisphere leaders in an auditorium where a number of seats were left notably empty, Peru's new president said that rather than accept corruption as a deep-seated scourge impossible to eliminate, governments should adopt concrete measures that prevent it from ever taking place.

  • Friday, April 6th 2018 - 09:17 UTC

    Trump will take his confrontation with China to the Summit of the Americas

    Trump is expected to argue that China’s trade policies had “not been productive for the hemisphere and that the United States should remain the partner of choice”

    United States President Donald Trump, engaged in an escalating confrontation with Beijing over trade, will urge Latin American leaders next week to work with the United States – not China – on trade, a senior US official said on Thursday. Trump’s trip to Lima, Peru, for the Summit of the Americas has been prefaced by aggressive moves on trade and immigration.

  • Wednesday, March 21st 2018 - 20:27 UTC

    Peruvian president offers resignation to Congress ahead of an impeachment vote

    Kuczynski's resignation follows the shock revelation of several of the president's allies caught allegedly trying to buy a lawmaker to block the impeachment.

    Embattled President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has offered his resignation to Peru's congress ahead of a scheduled vote on whether to impeach the former Wall Street investor on corruption charges, according to a presidential aide. If congress accepts the resignation, power would transfer to Vice President Martin Vizcarra, who is serving as Peru's ambassador to Canada.

  • Tuesday, March 20th 2018 - 10:17 UTC

    Peruvian president said removing him from office would amount to a coup détat

    The 79-year-old former Wall Street banker is facing an impeachment vote in the opposition-dominated Congress on Thursday over alleged bribe-taking

    Peru's embattled President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said on Monday he was confident of surviving an impeachment vote later this week. “I know that Thursday will be fine,” the conservative leader said in a speech in the Amazonian city of Iquitos.