Peru president blasts Chile for alleged military spying

President Alan García on Monday blasted “dictatorial, Pinochet-like” elements in Chile’s government for allegedly keeping a Peruvian air force officer on its payroll to turn over military top secrets to Peru’s southern neighbor.

Best social networking site for Peru’s expat community gets FB-like facelift

By Rick Vecchio
~ Peruvian Times Editor ~
Peruvian Times’ sister site Expatperu.com has undergone a major redesign with a fabulous social networking application for Peru’s English-speaking international community, or anyone interested in getting an inside view of how things really work in South America’s third largest nation.

Barbara Fraser Interviews director of El Instituto del Bien Común: background of Indigenous unrest

Fujimori, Arana, massacres, impunity and immunity

By Paul Goulder ~

In April ex-President Fujimori was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison and the long fight for justice by relatives of those killed at Cantuta and Barrios Altos, and who had absolutely no connection with terrorism, have seen some belated and grim reward. It has been called “un hito jurídico [...]

Ex-President Alberto Fujimori found guilty of sanctioning paramilitary death squad

Peru’s ex-President Alberto Fujimori was found guilty on all charges Tuesday for sanctioning a paramilitary death squad that gunned down 25 people in two notorious massacres during the first two years of his 10-year authoritarian rule.
Chief Judge César San Martín announced the unanimous verdict by the three judge panel at 9:26 a.m., bringing to a [...]

Sensational diva soprano emerges from Peru’s Southern Andes

By Paul Goulder
Puno awoke one morning last week to the arrival of a reporting team from the top-rated Lima television channel to interview Edith Ramos, whose mercurial, multi-octave voice has people calling her the next Ima Sumac, Peru`s greatest soprano during the Hollywood boom era.

Peru’s journalistic community mourns passing of Mary Powers

Mary Powers, a leader and beloved colleague of Peru’s foreign press community, died Friday, Jan. 9, at home after a long illness.  She was 54.
Mary was born in Springfield, Mass., the daughter of the late Thomas “Jinx” and Harriet Powers of West Springfield.  Mary attended  St. Thomas School and graduated from Cathedral High School.

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