Peruvian president Alan Garcia is currently packing his bags for his second get-together with U.S. president George W. Bush in Washington. He is scheduled to depart from Lima’s Jorge Chavez airport on Sunday and will shake hands with Bush at the White House a day later on Monday, April 23rd. Later he will meet with [...]
Peru filed an official protest with the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (O.A.S.) that Chile clears its remaining land mines in areas near the two countries border, according to previous commitments made during the organization’s assembly last year in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The protest was filed by the Peruvian ambassador to [...]
Peruvian sports stars, Surfing world champion Sofia Mulanovich and international soccer player Claudio Pizarro will team up within the next few days for a special media campaign to boost votes worldwide for the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu as one of the new 7 world wonders. Lima’s football club Universitario del Deportes will also [...]
Chile’s massive armament purchase affects the strategic balance in the South American region and is always reason for concern, said Peru’s Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaúnde after being asked about a recent article published in Chilean newspaper “La Tercera” which gave an account of the latest purchase of twelve F-16 supersonic fighter jets for [...]
The 5th Penal Court of the Superior Court of Justice in Lima (CSJL) sentenced Vladimiro Montesinos, ex-intelligence chief and adviser of former president Alberto Fujimori, to five years in prison, after he was found guilty of abuse of power and influence peddling. The Supreme Court presided by the justice Victor Prado Saldarriaga also sentenced him [...]