Moquegua’s regional Civil Defense Institute is maintaing a yellow alert, indicating that the Ubinas volcano in southwestern Peru could erupt.
Since the volcano began to emit acid-laden ash, smoke and toxic gases more than two months ago, hundreds of residents have complained of migraines, conjunctivitis and respiratory infections.
“The inhabitants of (San Pedro de Querapi), who came […]

Peru President Alan Garcia enacted a legislative decree to declare a 60-day state of emergency in 11 of Peru’s 24 departments Thursday as temperatures in the Andes region continue to drop dramatically and claim the lives of residents.
As Peru remains in the grip of intense cold — meteorologists have registered temperatures dipping to -22°C, or […]

The cold weather death toll continues to rise in Peru’s southern highlands after a snowstorm hit the Puno region and led to the death Wednesday of a 9 month-old baby. The meteorological phenomenon, which was widely reported in Peru’s newspapers Thursday morning, left up to 6 cm, or 2.36 inches of snow, in some areas.
Several […]

Peru Agriculture Minister Ismael Benavides said Wednesday he will sign a legislative decree to establish an agrarian compensation program to get in line with U.S.-Peru FTA requirements.
The compensation program, Benavides told state news agency Andina, is to be funded by the Public Treasury and the Inter-American Development Bank. It will administer $700 million over the […]

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 […]

President Alan Garcia called Friday on European, Latin American and Caribbean heads of state to increase production of food crops by 2 percent to prevent starvation for millions of poor people confronted by skyrocketing prices for wheat, rice and corn.
Garcia told nearly 60 presidents and chancellors assembled for the Fifth EU-Latin America Summit that while […]

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Climate change continues to wreck havoc in Peru’s southern altiplano, where the arrival of freezing temperatures since March — almost three months earlier than usual — have killed more than a dozen people.

More than seven months after a magnitude-8 earthquake rocked southern Peru, authorities from the hard-hit Ica Department found a reportedly large quantity of donations hoarded in the house of a local mayor.
According to daily El Comercio, authorities under the orders of prosecutor Ángel Mendoza Suppo confiscated food products, clothes, blankets, shoes, foldable beds, tents, and […]

Fifteen people drowned, including several young children, and many more are still reported missing, after the riverboat they were travelling on capsized during a storm on the Tapiche River in the Requena district, Loreto department.