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Peru’s presidential candidates select running mates

All but one of Peru’s leading presidential candidates have selected their vice presidents for 2016…

  • Culture

Peru opens armed-conflict memorial museum in Lima

The Lugar de la Memoria museum was inaugurated in Lima yesterday to commemorate victims of…

  • Business

Mining company ousts directors over Peru community spat

Shareholders of gold-mining company Minera IRL voted to oust board chairman Jaime Pinto yesterday in…

  • News

Canadian kills fellow tourist during ayahuasca ceremony

A Canadian man killed his friend and fellow tourist after both men consumed ayahuasca in…

  • News

Keiko Fujimori to choose between centrism and old guard

Presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori’s selection of her party’s congressional candidates threatens to alienate the base…

  • Culture

Arequipa club wins Peru’s soccer league championship

The Arequipa-based FBC Melgar defeated Lima club, Sporting Cristal, 3-2 last night to win the…

  • Lima

Peru: four police officers involved in Lima shakedown

Police have arrested two officers and are searching for two more in the kidnapping and…

  • Opinion

What will the emerging-markets bubble mean for Peru?

For over a decade, emerging markets have been the darlings of the world economy. For…

  • Business

Peru to fine Kimberly-Clark and Protisa for price-fixing

Peru’s commercial trade regulator will levy fines against American firm Kimberly-Clark and its Chilean competitor…

  • News

Peru: Cesar Acuña accused of campaign finance irregularities

A newspaper report has revealed phantom donors to the presidential campaign of former La Libertad…

  • Culture

Peru wins fourth consecutive gastronomy tourism award

The World Travel Awards have selected Peru as the Best Culinary Destination in 2015 for…

  • News

Peru: Alan Garcia’s lawyer guilty in ‘narco-pardons’ case

A court sentenced the former lawyer for Alan Garcia, Miguel Facundo, to a prison sentence…

  • News

Northern Peru gang included eight police officers

Police in Piura have arrested 29 members of a gang which included eight police officers…

  • News

Peru: Alan Garcia wins party alliances for 2016 elections

The Popular Christian Party (PPC) will back APRA leader and presidential candidate Alan Garcia in…

  • Lima

TripAdvisor lists Lima as global destination ‘on the rise’

The tourism travel website, TripAdvisor, has placed Lima in its list of the world’s top 10…