Peru government to review medical records cited in pardon of ex-TV mogul

Justice Minister Aurelio Pastor said Wednesday a full review will be made of the medical reports used to justify the pardon granted last December to former TV owner José Enrique Crousillat, who took millions of dollars in bribes in exchange for favorable coverage of the Fujimori regime in the 1990s. “We are going to ask [...]

Peru D.A. to open investigation into prison pardon granted to ex-TV owner

The district attorney in charge of corruption crimes is to open a preliminary investigation into the pardon granted earlier this month by President Garcia to former TV mogul José Enrique Crousillat. The investigation is being made into possible irregularities in the request for the pardon. The former majority shareholder of America Television was sentenced last [...]

Peru President Garcia visits Tokyo and Seoul en route to Singapore for APEC Forum

President Alan Garcia met South Korea’s President Lee Muyng-Bank Wednesday for protocol ceremonies at the presidential palace of Cheong Wa Dae, during his first day in Seoul.  

Cancer prevention campaign launched nationwide

Peru’s National League for the Prevention of Cancer has launched its nationwide 2009 fund-raising campaign, which aims to collect funds for awareness and prevention activities and a modern clinic designed to attend to 60,000 cancer patients annually. Across the Andean country, a small “army” of 10,000 volunteers is currently collecting passersby’s loose change – on [...]

Famed Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo greeted by Peru’s García at Government Palace before concert

Plácido Domingo, one of the most praised, versatile and talented operatic tenors, met with Peru President Alan García at the Government Palace in Lima on Tuesday, a day before his scheduled performance with Peru’s National Symphonic Orchestra. “We truly appreciate your visit to Lima,” said García, who showed Plácido Domingo plans for the construction of [...]

Alan García: Peru-Brazil relations at “highest and most creative point in history”

Peru President Alan García congratulated Brazil as the country celebrated 187 years of independence on Tuesday, and said that relations between the two countries were at their “highest and most creative point in history.”

Social conflicts up by nearly 250 percent since Peru’s Garcia took office

Social conflicts have shot up from 84 in July 2006 – a month after Peru President Alan Garcia was elected as APRA’s presidential candidate in a runoff election – to 284 this past month, reported daily El Comercio on Tuesday. Of the 284 social conflicts tracked last month, more than 60 percent were related to [...]

Two soldiers, four Shining Path guerrillas dead after shootout in Huancavelica

Two soldiers and four suspected Shining Path guerrillas were killed in the highland department of Huancavelica early Wednesday morning after an operation to capture “Comrade Raúl” turned violent, said Defense Minister Rafael Rey.

Laptops given to Asháninka youth by Junín Regional Government gather dust as majority of communities lack electricity

More than 2,600 laptops given to Asháninka children by Peru’s Education Ministry and the Junín Regional Government gather dust as 50 of the 73 communities targeted by the project lack electricity, and consequently no way of recharging their computer batteries. “It’s true that most of these communities have no electricity,” said Regional President Vladimiro Huaroc, [...]

Peru’s Garcia travels to Argentina for UNASUR Summit, Uribe expected to come under fire for military base deal

Peru President Alan García – the only South American leader to have expressed support for Colombian President Alvaro Uribe’s U.S. military base deal – left early Thursday to attend an extraordinary Union of South American Nations, or UNASUR, Summit in Argentina.

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