The host of Peru’s most popular tabloid TV scandal show has been ordered to serve four months of community service and pay a fine of 5,000 soles, or about $1,778, in civil reparation for defaming a producer from a rival television station.
“I will sweep the streets like Naomi Campbell, or perhaps go to Santa Monica […]

By Rick Vecchio ~

The decision last week by the European Parliament to reject inclusion of Peru’s Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement on its list of known terrorist groups has reverberated through Peru with hardly any notice taken by English language news media — with one very notable exception: The Wall Street Journal. And boy, did they […]

A columnist for daily Peru21 outed San Martín de Porres University on Thursday for allegedly seeking to ease her out as a journalism professor because she is a lesbian.
Esther Vargas, Peru21’s City Section editor Vargas, dedicated a full column on Peru21’s Society page to detail how she was asked by two administrators to either […]

A tabloid newspaper owner convicted of taking bribes from former intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos to run smear campaigns against opponents of ex-president Alberto Fujimori got an early release from prison yesterday.
Moisés Wolfenson was released from Lima’s San Jorge prison after Peru’s highest court, the Constitutional Tribunal, ruled that penitentiary officials miscalculated time, served during his […]

Controversy over a new law prohibiting public schools from hiring teachers who did not finish in the top third of their class during their studies has intensified, with Peru’s Education Minister threatening criminal charges against many of the country’s regional presidents who say the law is unconstitutional and discriminatory.
In an attempt to improve Peru’s ailing […]

Peru’s Foreign Relations Ministry announced Wednesday that it has begun legal action to revoke a Peruvian woman’s trademark registration of a popular Peruvian dance  in Chile. Cecilia Gurmendi, a former Marinera national champion in Peru, registered “Marinera” with Chile’s Trademark Registry in the Department of Industrial Property in November 2007.
The Foreign Relations Ministry says Marinera, […]

Jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori is scheduled to face his first human rights abuse trial Dec. 10 to answer for his regime’s brutal excesses to tame the Shining Path insurgency during his 10-year rule.
Coincidently, members of his political party spent all last week trying to muster support for a vote of censure against President Alan Garcia’s […]