Prosecutors in Peru expanded an investigation this week into alleged money laundering by members of the ruling leftist Free Peru party to include party leader Vladimir Cerrón, Prime Minister Guido Bellido, and Cerrón’s brother Waldermar, the official party spokesman in Congress.
Recently inaugurated communist President Pedro Castillo is seeking to expand political and trade ties to China, Reuters reported on Friday, with little room to grow given China’s status as Peru’s largest trade partner already and Peru’s participation in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Today is Peru’s independence day, ordinarily an occasion for great celebrations in one of Latin America’s most important nations.
Police in Lima arrested nine people on Wednesday in connection with an alleged criminal ring that charged severe Chinese coronavirus patients up to $21,000 for an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) bed at a state-run hospital, Peru’s Gestión newspaper reported.
Peru’s National Jury of Elections (JNE) officially declared Pedro Castillo the winner of the June 6 presidential election on Monday, ending nearly two months of uncertainty over who would lead the nation.
Peruvians remain no closer to knowing who their next president is on Friday after a shake-up at the National Jury of Elections (JNE) caused by one of its members declaring its investigation into fraud allegations biased.
An in-depth report published by the Peruvian investigative outlet Ojo Público on Tuesday revealed extensive evidence that at least four Latin American nations — Peru, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico — used spare doses of Chinese-made coronavirus vaccines to immunize politicians and celebrities.
A prosecutor on the case against conservative presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori of Peru requested her preventative arrest on Thursday.
Communist candidate Pedro Castillo appears to have won the Peruvian presidential election as of Wednesday afternoon, in a tight race separating him from rival conservative Keiko Fujimori by less than 0.5 percent of the vote.
Keiko Fujimori, the far-right candidate in Peru’s presidential election on Sunday, claimed late on Monday that her party had evidence of “concerning” irregularities that may constitute fraud.
The results of the presidential election in Peru on Sunday remain in a dead heat as of Monday afternoon, with a little over 34,000 votes of the 17 million separating communist candidate Pedro Castillo of the Free Peru party from conservative Keiko Fujimori and her Popular Force party.
Radical leftist Pedro Castillo and hardline conservative Keiko Fujimori are stuck in a statistical tie less than a week before Peru’s June 6 presidential elections, polls showed on Monday.
Military officials identified the believed-to-be-defunct Marxist terrorist organization Shining Path on Monday as the party responsible for the massacre of 18 people, including at least four children, this weekend in southern Peru.
Police in Peru opened a “preliminary” police investigation against presidential election frontrunner Pedro Castillo, a far-leftist, this weekend in response to accusations that he lied about holding a second job when filing paperwork to run for office.
Conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori has attracted a surge of support, bringing her within three points of frontrunner Marxist Pedro Castillo in Peru’s presidential race, a poll published Monday revealed.
The Chinese coronavirus pandemic has allowed dozens of countries around the world to expand the power of their central governments, presumably to protect populations and facilitate processes like mass vaccinations.
Far-left vice presidential candidate Dina Boluarte vowed to voters in Peru this week that Lima’s middle class would “cease to be” following her running mate Pedro Castillo’s win in the first round of that country’s presidential election.
Keiko Fujimori, a conservative opposition leader in Peru, will challenge the “radical leftist” Pedro Castillo for the Peruvian presidency in a runoff election in June after Peru’s latest presidential election on Sunday failed to produce a 51 percent majority for any presidential candidate.
Peru’s foreign minister resigned on Tuesday after admitting that she received an early dose of a Chinese coronavirus vaccine candidate before Peru had officially launched its coronavirus vaccination campaign.
Less than a month away from the presumed inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, Americans are departing a year in which their presidential election largely eclipsed campaigns around the world.
The Chinese coronavirus pandemic – which global health authorities first warned the world of in January, months after the virus first began circulating in China – will forever mark 2020 as a historic year.
Police in Peru recently carried out a drug raid in the capital Lima while disguising themselves as Santa Claus and his elves, authorities revealed Wednesday.
Manuel Merino, who became president of Peru on Tuesday, resigned on Sunday after nationwide protests erupted against his rule, killing at least two people.
The Congress of Peru voted to oust President Martín Vizcarra on Monday using a constitutional provision that allows it to do so when it deems the president “morally incapable” of running the country.
The governments of Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru issued a joint statement Wednesday warning Chinese ships to stop fishing illegally within their sovereign territory.
Authorities in Peru last week opened Machu Picchu on the request of a single Japanese tourist who had waited almost seven months to visit the famous Inca ruins.
An illegal alien stands accused of bludgeoning an 81-year-old woman to death in Frederick County, Maryland.
Police in Peru arrested clowns attending the funeral of a colleague who died from the coronavirus in an increased effort to enforce lockdown restrictions and slow the spread of the disease.
A police-triggered stampede killed 13 people and injured three others at a nightclub throwing an “illegal party” in Lima, Peru, on Saturday evening.
The mayor of a small town in Peru was arrested by authorities on Wednesday after violating lockdown measures in order to go out drinking with friends, before hiding from police in a coffin reserved for victims of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
At least nine inmates died in Peru during a prison riot demanding better sanitary conditions to protect from the Chinese coronavirus, the country’s prison authority announced on Tuesday.
Police in Lima arrested a Chinese citizen for illegally conducting rapid coronavirus tests on the public with testing kits stolen from Peru’s health ministry, Singapore’s CNA reported on Monday.
Officials in Peru doused a group of Americans with bleach as they tried to leave the country after being placed in a nationwide quarantine, according to footage and witness testimony obtained by The Washington Post.
Hundreds of Americans are stuck in Peru after the government shut down the country’s borders to slow the number of coronavirus infections.
The president of the Latin-American Catholic Bishops’ Conference (CELAM) said that Europeans need to leave behind a “poetic” understanding of climate change to begin combating it effectively.
President Martín Vizcarra of Peru dissolved the nation’s Congress on Monday after it denied him the power to check judicial appointments.
Latin American leaders called on the international community to find solutions to the crisis in Venezuela during the United Nations General Assembly this week, as Nicolás Maduro’s socialist dictatorship continues to preside over the most serious political and economic crisis in the region.
An angry mob of Peruvians attacked a Venezuelan man, accused of killing a 70-year-old, with stones, sticks, and boiling water last weekend.
Federal authorities have confiscated an incredible 16.5 tons of cocaine from a ship at a port in South Philadelphia.
The Brazilian contractor Odebrecht – implicated in hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of bribes throughout South America – filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, seeking to restructure some $20 billion in debt.
