Peru
By Paula Bayarte Lima, Mar 5 (EFE).- Punch, a baby squirrel monkey from the Peruvian Amazon, was separated from his mother at birth and transported to arid Lima to be sold as a pet, where he was fortunately rescued. Like his famous Japanese namesake, he now clings to a stuffed...
Lima, Feb 19 (EFE).- Peru’s new Interim President José María Balcázar has been embroiled in a series of controversies and accusations involving up to 13 different crimes, including malfeasance, fraud, and embezzlement. Balcázar, 83, belongs to the Marxist Peru Libre party, which backed former President Pedro Castillo (2021-2022), but his...
Lima, Feb 17 (EFE).- Peru’s Congress removed on Tuesday Interim President José Jerí less than two months before the general elections. Jeri was removed with 75 votes in favor, 24 against, and 3 abstentions. He was the seventh president since the 2016 elections. Congress ousted Jerí after just four months...
Lima (EFE).- Peruvian former President Pedro Castillo (2021-2022) was sentenced on Thursday to 11 years and five months for conspiracy to rebel following his failed coup attempt on Dec. 7, 2022. The Supreme Court of Peru, which tried Castillo, ruled that he did not commit the crime of rebellion, as...
Lima, Nov 26 (EFE). – Former Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra (2018-2020) was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in prison after the court determined he received over 2.3 million soles (about 700,000 dollars) in bribes when he was governor of the southern region of Moquegua (2011-2014). The president of the Fourth...
Lima (EFE).- A Peruvian court on Wednesday rejected a request from the Prosecutor’s Office to impose a 36-month travel ban on former Peruvian president Dina Boluarte (2022-2025), who is under investigation for alleged money laundering. Judge Fernando Valdez, head of the Second National Preparatory Investigation Court, ruled that “there is...
Lima (EFE).- At least five burials dating from 800 to 2,000 years ago have been uncovered during gas pipeline expansion works in Lima, revealing new evidence of the ancient cultures that once flourished in the Peruvian capital. The remains were found just beneath street level in the upscale Santiago de...
Hamm, Germany, (EFE).- A German court on Wednesday dismissed a landmark lawsuit filed by Peruvian farmer and mountain guide Saúl Lliuya against energy giant RWE, the German international multi-energy company, over its contribution to climate change and the melting of a glacier near his hometown in the Andes. Despite the...
Lima, (EFE).- Peru’s government imposed a nighttime curfew and authorized military control in the remote Andean district of Pataz, following the abduction and murder of 13 security workers at the Poderosa gold mine. The decision, announced Monday by President Dina Boluarte, comes amid growing national outrage over rampant violence linked...
By Paula Bayarte Lima (EFE).- The Peruvian Mari Luz Canaquiri and her colleagues won a historic ruling that holds the Marañón River as a subject of a right, which the activist said paves the way to protecting the Amazon. Canaquiri’s struggle earned her the Goldman Prize, considered the environmental Nobel...
Brasilia, (EFE).- Nadine Heredia, former First Lady of Peru, arrived in Brazil on Wednesday under diplomatic asylum granted by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s government, just hours after receiving a 15-year prison sentence in a high-profile corruption case involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht. Heredia, wife of former President Ollanta...
Lima, Apr 15 (EFE). – Former Peruvian President Ollanta Humala (2011-2016) was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for money laundering over illegal contributions from former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and the Brazilian company Odebrecht to finance his electoral campaigns in 2006 and 2011. Humala’s wife, Nadine Heredia, who...
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