Humala Plans Trip to Venezuela Over Weekend

President Ollanta Humala plans to travel to Venezuela on the weekend,  where he will meet with that country’s president, Hugo Chavez, state news agency Andina reported. The trip is intended to deepen bilateral ties between Lima and Caracas with a focus on trade, social issues and diplomacy, Andina said. The government has requested that Congress provide [...]

Venezuela’s Chavez: Humala to Visit in Early 2012

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that his Peruvian counterpart, Ollanta Humala, will be visiting Venezuela in 2012, daily El Comercio reported. Chavez said Humala is expected to visit early next year, although he did not provide an exact date, El Comercio said. Humala had planned to travel to Venezuela earlier this month for the first conference of [...]

Humala, Garcia send well-wishes to Chavez

Peruvian President-elect Ollanta Humala sent a message to Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez Friday after it was revealed the latter has undergone cancer treatment in Cuba for a tumor. “My best wishes and solidarity for President Hugo Chavez, his family, and I will pray for his recovery and quick return to his homeland,” Humala said by Twitter. [...]

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.

Former Venezuelan governor and Chávez critic Didalco Bolivar in Lima seeking political asylum

Former governor of Venezuela’s northern Aragua State and outspoken Hugo Chávez critic Didalco Bolívar landed in Peru a week ago and is expected to formalize a request for political asylum at any moment, reported daily El Comercio on Friday. “I don’t know anything,” said Foreign Affairs Minister José Antonio García Belaunde when asked about Bolívar’s [...]

Cardinal Cipriani warns of “foreign meddling in Peru’s internal affairs” during July 28th homily

The Archbishop of Lima, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, said during his sermon on Independence Day Tuesday that “Peru needs an iron front to stamp out foreign meddling and interference in the country’s internal affairs.” “Peru is an open country and is always ready to initiate dialogue with those willing to collaborate in good faith,” said [...]

Chávez critic granted asylum, Venezuela recalls ambassador to Peru

To protest Peru’s decision to grant political asylum to President Hugo Chavez’s most outspoken critic, Manuel Rosales, Venezuela has recalled its ambassador in Lima, daily Peru21 reported Tuesday. According to Venezuela’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, Rosales should have been arrested and then extradited to his home country, where he currently faces corruption charges. Venezuela disparaged Peru’s [...]

Chavez critic Manuel Rosales flees Venezuela, files for political asymlum in Peru

Venezuela’s main opposition leader and Maracaibo Mayor Manuel Rosales has fled Venezuela and sought political asylum in Peru to escape a trial on corruption charges he says are politically motivated.

Peru’s Garcia proposes solutions for environmental crisis threatening world hunger

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 [...]

Peru President Inaugurates EU-Latin America Summit

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