A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck a remote Amazon region of Peru on Wednesday, shaking office buildings in the capital almost 600 kilometers (370 miles) away, witnesses and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, Reuters reported.
Local media said (...)
Peru's President-elect Ollanta Humala has taken a hard fall in popularity after suspending his brother from his political coalition over ethics concerns, according to an Ipsos Apoyo poll published on Sunday, according to Reuters.
His rating (...)
Left-wing former army commander Ollanta Humala won Peru's presidential election and vowed the poor will share in the country's new wealth but financial markets plummeted on fears that he will ruin the economy, Reuters reported.
Humala claimed (...)
Left-wing former army commander Ollanta Humala won Peru's presidential election and vowed the poor will share in the country's new wealth but financial markets plunged on fears that he will ruin the economy, according to Reuters.
Right-wing (...)
Polling stations opened Sunday in Peru in a tight presidential runoff election that pits two populists against each other, as dpa reported.
Final opinion polls prior to the election showed a technical tie between left-wing nationalist Ollanta (...)
Awwa 25, 1432 /April 29, 2011, SPA -- one of the world's fastest-growing economies, holds a run-off presidential election on June 5, Reuters reported.
The latest poll shows left-wing nationalist Ollanta Humala and right-wing lawmaker Keiko Fujimori (...)
Awwal 07, 1432, April 11, 2011, SPA -- Peru was headed for a presidential run-off after no candidate won the required outright majority in Sunday's first
round of voting, according to official projections.
Preliminary official results with 50 per (...)
Awwal 05, 1432 / April 09, 2011, SPA -- Peru's ruling party gave its backing to presidential candidate Pedro Pablo Kuczynski on Saturday, a day before Peruvians vote in the first round of an election that a left-wing nationalist is favored to win, (...)
Akhir 14, 1432 H/March 19, 2011, SPA -- Peruvian President Alan Garcia announced Saturday that his Cabinet chief has resigned just three weeks before nationwide elections and four months before the end of his boss's term, according to AP.
Jose (...)
Awwal 03, 1432 H/Feb 06, 2011, SPA -- Former President Alejandro Toledo is the clear front-runner in Peru's presidential race, according to a poll released on Sunday by a survey institute at Lima's Catholic University.
Other survey firms also show (...)
Awwal 02, 1432 H/Feb 05, 2011, SPA -- The developments in the Middle East may force postponement of a summit of Latin American and Arab leaders, AP quoted Peru's President Alan Garcia as saying Saturday.
Garcia told reporters that the Arab League (...)
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian author who helped put Latin American literature on the world stage in the 1960s, dazzled readers with a string of international best-sellers for the next four decades, according to Reuters.
Vargas Llosa, who won the (...)
Peruvian President Alan Garcia celebrated Thursday
the news that Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the 2010
Nobel Prize for Literature.
"It is a great day for Peru," dpa quoted Garcia as telling Peruvian radio station
RPP.
The (...)
Peruvian police and protesters opposed to an irrigation project in the country's South clashed on Thursday, killing one man and injuring 18, as President Alan Garcia faces a new conflict over natural resources in the surging economy, according to (...)
Peruvian President Alan Garcia picked Education Minister Jose Chang as his new prime minister on Tuesday in a widely expected cabinet shuffle, but said he did not know if other key posts will change hands.
Chang will replace Prime Minister Javier (...)
Peru's Prime Minister Javier Velasquez said on Monday he would formally step down this week so he can mount a run for president next year and that several ministers now serving would be a "good" replacement for him.
Velasquez, a member of President (...)
Peruvian President Alan Garcia said on Sunday his Prime Minister Javier Velasquez will step down as part of a broader cabinet shuffle that will be carried out this week so ministers can run for political office.
Normally in Peru all ministers offer (...)
A Peruvian court on Wednesday repealed parole granted to US citizen Lori Berenson in May, who was convicted on terrorism charges, according to dpa.
Berenson had served almost 15 years until May, after she was
convicted of involvement in a plot (...)
At least 21 people died and 25 were injured in a bus
accident Tuesday in the northern Peruvian town of Sindron, the Health
Department of La Libertad region said.
Although the cause of the accident was not immediately known,
preliminary reports (...)
The government of Peru has declared a state of emergency as winter temperatures in large parts of the South American country plunge to record lows, media reports said today.
So far, at least 100 people have died in the worst cold spell in 46 (...)
The fossil of a giant whale called Leviathan for having teeth bigger than a grown man's forearms has been found in Peru by paleontologists who today said it may have been the largest predator to ever roam the seas, according to Reuters.
Leviathan (...)
Peruvian Finance Minister Mercedes Araoz told local media today she is considering running for president next year, in a candidacy that would likely benefit from the country's booming economic growth, according to Reuters.
Araoz confirmed she is in (...)
At least 100 people went missing today in Peru
after the ship they were travelling in was shipwrecked in the Amazon
River, dpa quoted Peruvian radio station RPP as reporting.
According to RPP, some 80 survivors had been rescued, and two
bodies (...)
Peru's Southern Copper has asked the government to postpone a public meeting over its Tia Maria project, which has sparked protests by villagers who fear the mine will affect water supplies, according to Reuters.
Southern Copper, one of the world's (...)
At least six people died by today in clashes
between striking miners and police in the Peruvian province of
Arequipa, dpa quoted the authorities as saying.
Other sources said there were at least nine dead.
Miners in the area launched an (...)
