Tag: Peru

• Wednesday, June 8th 2011 - 06:13 UTC

  Humala calls US a ‘strategic partner’ and plans to discuss taxes with corporations

  

  Peru's nationalist president-elect Ollanta Humala said on Tuesday he will chart his own course, described the US as a ‘strategic partner’ and promised to discuss with mining companies his plans to tax windfall earnings to pay for social programs.

• Tuesday, June 7th 2011 - 22:59 UTC

  Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and Peru shoppers, most promising for retail expansion

  

  Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and Peru figure among the short list of top ranked developing countries for global retail expansion. In the 10th annual Global Retail Development Index (GRDI), elaborated by global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney, Brazil jumped to first place from number 5 in last year’s study.

• Tuesday, June 7th 2011 - 22:31 UTC

  Peru’s economic fundamentals sound and will be respected, says Humala

  

  The Peruvian currency and Lima’s stock market partially recovered on Tuesday from the dramatic Monday collapse when it was confirmed nationalist Ollanta Humala had been elected in a very tight run-off to become the country’s next president.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 04:06 UTC

  Peruvian president says he’s rather fond of Chavez with whom fights are over

  

  Peruvian outgoing president Alan García said on Sunday that the days of rivalry and fights with his peer Hugo Chavez are over and admitted he’s quite fond of the Venezuelan president whom he considers a man “respectful of institutions and power”.

• Sunday, May 22nd 2011 - 22:46 UTC

  Argentina and Peru main recipients of Chilean investments in services sector

  

  Argentina and Peru are the top recipients of Chilean overseas investments in the service sector according to report released last week covering a two decade period from 1990 to 2010.

• Wednesday, May 4th 2011 - 22:58 UTC

  Peru accepts Ecuador maritime borders, much to Chile’s chagrin

  

  Peru recognized maritime borders with Ecuador on Monday employing the same criteria they took Chile to The Hague in 2008 for using.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 21:55 UTC

  Falklands’ war book reveals Israel’s arms and equipment support for Argentina

  

  Israel’s role during the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict as a willing supplier of arms, equipment and other materials to Argentina has been revealed in a book titled “Operation Israel: the rearming of Argentina during the dictatorship (1976/1983)” written by Hernan Dobry, with an advance published over the weekend in Buenos Aires daily La Nacion.

• Wednesday, April 13th 2011 - 23:04 UTC

  EU, Colombia, Peru sign ambitious trade agreement; saves half a billion Euros in tariffs

  

  EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gutch together with Colombian Minister for Trade Sergio Diaz-Granados Guida and Peruvian Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade Carlos Posada Ugaz, celebrated Wednesday in Brussels the initialling of an ambitious trade agreement between the EU, Colombia and Peru.

• Tuesday, April 12th 2011 - 04:25 UTC

  Humala’s run off with Keiko Fujimori; Peruvian economy faces overheating

  

  Peru’s presidential election on Sunday will have a second round of voting between Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori on 5th June, according to the latest official percentages which indicate the nationalist former Army officer has 31.75% of the vote and the daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, 23.29%, quite distanced from Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s (PPK) 18.8%.

• Friday, April 8th 2011 - 22:45 UTC

  Peru/Mexico sign trade agreement, fist step for a regional expansion towards Asia

  

  Peru and Mexico signed this week a trade agreement with the aim of jointly reaching out to Asia, an undertaking that they want Chile and Colombia to join