Peru hikes minimum wage 13% one week from elections
President Ollanta Humala signed a decree to raise Peru’s monthly minimum wage from $223 to…
8 years ago
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Emails from 2007 tarnish Peru’s Veronika Mendoza
New emails linking Veronika Mendoza to ruling party finance activities she had recently denied threaten…
8 years ago
Eighty years of Peru’s literary icon Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa celebrated his 80th birthday at a Madrid hotel on Monday, five years…
8 years ago
Peru: fugitive ex-governor arrested in Lima
Former Ayacucho governor Wilfredo Oscorima was arrested in the Miraflores district of Lima after more…
8 years ago
Peru’s ruling party in death throes as high-profile leaders resign
The party of President Ollanta Humala and first lady Nadine Heredia is suffering an existential…
8 years ago
Camisea natural gas: Peru’s political football
Peru’s presidential candidates in 2016 spar over energy policy and the biggest political liability for…
8 years ago
Paolo Guerrero becomes Peru’s top goal-scorer of all time
Striker Paolo Guerrero scored his 27th career goal for Peru’s national team against Venezuela to…
8 years ago
Bridge upgrade to reduce traffic 40% in Lima tourist district
The upscale Miraflores district of Lima inaugurated the newly widened Villena Rey bridge on Tuesday. The…
9 years ago
Exonerated, Keiko Fujimori to continue in Peru’s 2016 elections
Peru’s electoral authority has ruled that presidential frontrunner Keiko Fujimori would not be disqualified from…
9 years ago
Peru mulls barring Kuczynski in no-win situation
Peru’s elections board has lost significant credibility as it considers the disqualification of presidential candidate…
9 years ago
Pharmacy chain buys competitor in Peru’s fragmented industry
One of Peru’s largest healthcare and pharmaceutical companies has acquired the Arcangel pharmacy chain to…
9 years ago
Peru: Veronika Mendoza tied to first lady’s scandal
A handwriting analysis has shown that left-wing presidential candidate Veronika Mendoza had written in the controversial notebooks…
9 years ago
Peru may bar Keiko Fujimori from election for vote buying
UPDATE: The Lima elections board announced Friday night that it had opened an exclusion proceeding…
9 years ago
Peru: fugitive governor faces removal from office
Peru’s northern state of Ancash has begun proceedings to remove governor Waldo Rios after he…
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Keiko Fujimori’s VP barred from running for Peru’s Congress
A special elections board in Junin state has barred Vladimiro Huaroc, the second vice presidential…
9 years ago