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 [...]

Huanchaco farmers encouraged to take on hydroponic farming to save water

The city of Huanchaco has launched a hydroponic pilot project to help local farmers grow lettuce, radishes and other crops and, most importantly, to save water. Only 350,000 milliliters of water will be needed to grow 250,000 lettuces, while regular farming techniques require 20 million liters of water to produces barely 100,000 lettuces, said Huanchaco [...]

Venezuela has no ties to ALBA Houses in Peru, ambassador says

Venezuela has no ties to the so-called ALBA Houses operating in Peru, said Venezuela’s ambassador, Armando Laguna, responding to a Peruvian congressional committee report that concluded that Venezuela and Bolivia engaged in ideological infiltration and meddled in Peruvian internal affairs. “Venezuela has nothing to do with the ALBA Houses,” said Laguna, who denied any ideological [...]

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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President of Puno region gripped by criticism and criminal allegations

The walls are starting to close in from all sides on Hernán Fuentes, the outspoken leftist regional president of Puno. In an attempt to deflect mounting political hostility, Fuentes charges he is the victim of political persecution by President Alan Garcia’s conservative government. But with even his own brother adding his voice to the cacophony [...]

President of Puno region retracts asylum statements

The regional president of Peru’s southern Puno Department, Hernán Fuentes, was considering seeking asylum in  Venezuela or Bolivia for what he calls political persecution by the central government, but he retracted the idea almost as soon as Peruvian media reported his comments. Fuentes is a strong supporter of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, or [...]

Subcommittee to recommend investigation of ALBA cultural centers

Legislators conducting a preliminary investigation into the financing of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, ALBA, cultural centers will reportedly recommend to Congress a larger probe to determine the influence of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Peru’s internal affairs. The congressional subcommittee’s head, lawmaker Rolando Souza, will request Congress’ Foreign Relations Commission create an investigative [...]

President García urges diplomatic solution to Colombia’s standoff with Ecuador and Venezuela

Following meetings with his Ecuadorean counterpart, President Alan García said today that Colombia did indeed violate Ecuador’s sovereignty when its military killed 21 members of Colombia’s largest rebel group, including a senior commander, during a raid Saturday on a guerrilla encampment in Ecuador’s northern jungle. Garcia said Colombian President Alvaro Uribe should offer a full [...]