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Police seize $1 million of counterfeit clothing in Lima market

Yesterday morning police seized $1.25 million worth of clothing from the Polvos Azules shopping mall…

  • Economy

Copper prices send nuevo sol to six-year low at 3.20 per dollar

Peru’s currency closed last week at over 3.20 per dollar, a six-year low, on falling…

  • News

Dengue declines in northern Peru ahead of El Niño rains

Dengue fever has been significantly reduced in northern Peru ahead of El Niño weather conditions…

  • News

Military helicopter rotor kills woman in northern Peru

A college student who tried to approach Peru’s Cabinet chief Pedro Cateriano in Tumbes yesterday…

  • Culture

Historic Lima soccer team at risk of liquidation

Universitario de Deportes, Peru’s second oldest soccer club, faces the risk of being dissolved and…

  • Economy

Peru’s oil future in question after key license attracts zero bids

None of the qualified oil companies placed a bid for block 192, Peru’s largest oil…

  • News

Ecuadorian climbers’ bodies found in Cordillera Blanca mountains

Three Ecuadorian mountain climbers perished in Huascaran National Park of the Cordillera Blanca mountain range.…

  • News

Peru’s cell phone tracking law faces little opposition

A decree requiring telecommunications companies to provide police with the identity and location of cell…

  • Lite

U.S. firm sues Peru for payment of 140-year-old bonds

An Illinois firm has sued the government of Peru for $182 million for its failure…

  • Economy

Tia Maria protests resume ahead of talks with government

Two weeks after the end of martial law in Arequipa’s Islay province, residents held a…

  • Lima

Peru to build cable cars to serve poor Lima districts

Peru’s housing and construction ministry will build two aerial cable car lines to improve mobility…

  • Culture

Lima book fair generates $4.3 million in sales

The 20th edition of Lima’s annual book fair attracted over 500,000 visitors and sold over…

  • Economy

Government backtracks on minimum wage increase

Prime minister Pedro Cateriano announced that Peru would not increase the minimum wage before the…

  • Lima

Lima police launch ‘mega-operations’ to battle rising crime

Thousands of police descended on high-crime neighborhoods in Lima over the weekend in raids aimed…

  • News

15 more rescued from second Shining Path ‘production camp’

Peru’s armed forces freed 15 enslaved workers from a Shining Path work farm in Junin…