Tag: Peru

• Monday, April 15th 2019 - 09:35 UTC

  Pompeo pays tribute to Peru for receiving 700.000 Venezuela refugees

  

  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ended a visit to Peru on Sunday and travelled to the Colombian border city of Cucuta, crossed through by thousands of Venezuelans fleeing crisis under President Nicolas Maduro.

• Thursday, April 11th 2019 - 07:22 UTC

  Peru intent in promoting Machu Picchu and the Cusco region

  

  The Executive Branch of the Government of Peru is working on a land management proposal for Machu Picchu said Prime Minister Salvador del Solar in order to increase the number of tourists to the Inca citadel in the Cusco region while also improving the experience and enhancing the impact of tourism in the region.

• Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 07:31 UTC

  Seven countries have launched the Forum for Progress of South America

  

  South American countries on Friday launched the Forum for the Progress of South America (Prosur), a new regional bloc which seeks the “integration and strengthening of the region.”

• Tuesday, March 19th 2019 - 06:57 UTC

  Ex Peruvian president spends a night in California jail for drunkenness

  

  Former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo, who is facing extradition from the United States over corruption charges, was briefly jailed for public intoxication after getting drunk in a California restaurant, local police said on Monday.

• Wednesday, March 13th 2019 - 08:40 UTC

  Peru cabinet reshuffle: new prime minister but Finance and Mines remain

  

  Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra swore in actor and former Culture Minister Salvador del Solar as his new prime minister in a cabinet shuffle that may help shore up his slipping approval ratings.

• Thursday, March 7th 2019 - 09:06 UTC

  Peru opens military base in the Amazon to tackle illegal mining and deforestation

  

  Peru opened this week a military base in the Amazon in a bid to tackle illegal mining, the main culprit for deforestation in the world's largest rainforest. “The government has taken the political decision to be present in this region to eradicate illegal mining,” said Defense Minister Jose Huerta at the inauguration of the base in the Tambopata nature reserve.

• Friday, March 1st 2019 - 20:05 UTC

  Peru hit by earthquake also felt in Bolivia, Brazil and Chile

  

  An earthquake measuring 7.0 degrees on the Richter scale Friday rattled southern Peru, 67 km (41 miles) north-northwest of Juliaca, near the Bolivian border, it was reported.

• Monday, January 28th 2019 - 08:40 UTC

  Landslide crashes into hotel wedding celebration killing 15 in Peru

  

  ”A landslide crashed into a hotel during a wedding celebration in southeastern Peru, killing at least 15 people, authorities said on Sunday.

• Monday, January 14th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Peru establishes an annual Patagonian toothfish TAC of 161 tons

  

  The Peruvian Ministry of Production has established the maximum allowable catch of the Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) resource for the current year at 161 tones. According to ministerial Resolution 007/2019, the quota may be modified if the Institute of the Sea Peru has proven evidence of greater availability of the resource, for which purpose it shall remit the recommendation with the corresponding measures to the Production ministry.

• Thursday, December 27th 2018 - 21:59 UTC

  Peru's GDP forecast to go up in 2019 thanks to private investment, domestic consumption

  

  Peru's gross domestic product (GDP) is set to expand 3.7% this year and the next, boosted by the good performance of private investment and consumption, according to The Economist.