Ex-President Alberto Fujimori’s mountain of legal problems might have gotten a lot tougher to overcome following a ruling Thursday by the Lima Bar Association’s Ethics Commission ordering a two-year suspension of his defense lawyer, Cesar Nakazaki, from practicing law.
Congressman Rolando Sousa, a leading member of Fujimori’s opposition party bloc and also Nakazaki’s law partner, broke […]

Celebrated Peruvian folk singer Dina Páucar, also known as the “Beautiful Goddess of Love,” is receiving the distinguished roster of UNICEF goodwill ambassador today during a ceremony hosted by the United Nations.
Páucar, an iconic example of social change for Andean Indians and mixed-race mestizos and known for her philanthropy, is one of Peru’s biggest music […]

A Peruvian environmental organization was awarded the prestigious Energy Globe award during a ceremony hosted by the European Parliament for its work promoting sustainable solid waste management programs in Peru and five other Latin American countries.
The non-profit Peruvian Ciudad Saludable, or “Healthy City” was recognized Monday for its enterprise-driven model promoting the establishment and operation […]

Less than 24 hours after a 5.3 Richter quake shook the Southern Peruvian cities of Ica and Cañete, another tremor occurred early Thursday morning. The Peruvian Geophysical Institute registered the new quake at 4:01 am local time (9:01 GMT). No injuries or serious damage was immediately reported.
The epicenter of the 4.1 tremor was detected approximately […]

An opposition congressman under fire for gunning down his neighbor’s pet Schnauzer has not only confessed that he lied about the incident, but that he shot the defenseless pooch with an unlicensed rifle.
“To err is human and I, like any of you, am mortal. I am not beyond committing errors,” Miro Ruiz told reporters late […]

President Alan García is to confirm Thursday, at the opening of the APEC Trade Ministers Meeting in Arequipa, the signing of free trade agreements (FTA) with Canada and Singapore.
Peru concluded its FTA negotiations with Canada during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January, with both countries seeking to diversify their markets in the […]

While Peru celebrates the fruits of record economic growth, poverty reduction and political stability, forensic experts in an isolated, windswept Andean zone are unearthing evidence of a dark past few want to remember.
The Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team started last week to exhume the human remains from Peru’s largest known mass grave in the highland community […]

President Alan Garcia lauded a report by the National Statistics Institute that showed Peru’s poverty rate dropped more than 5 percentage points in 2007. But he also warned Peruvians that the figures could be fleeting.
“Just as there can be hiccups of growth that later drop, there too can be hiccups of poverty reduction that later […]

As Peru’s valuable water resources continue to diminish at an alarming rate, representatives from 15 farming federations traveled Monday to Israel to learn about the latest innovations in irrigation technology.
Agriculture Minister Ismael Benavides said the irrigation training in Israel “will help to complement our program to improve irrigation, infrastructure, and irrigation and spray-tech, which this […]

Critics believe former President Fujimori’s precancerous mouth condition, leukoplakia, is being used as a ploy to obtain a mistrial and to distract public attention from the testimony given by retired army Gen. Rodolfo Robles, who has told the court that Fujimori was fully aware of the Colina death squad’s assassinations of Maoist Shining Path […]