Mayor Villaran releases report that highlights overspending in Castañeda...
The administration of Lima’s former mayor, Luis Castañeda, included unnecessary spending, lack of transparency and the delivery of incomplete works as a result of excessive outsourcing to the...
View ArticleGarcia: No need for nuclear power thanks to plenty of hydro, gas
Peru won’t need to look to nuclear power as an alternative energy source for the foreseeable future thanks to its large hydro-electric potential and natural gas reserves, President Alan Garcia said....
View ArticleReport: Climate change causing historic shortage of water in Tacna
The department of Tacna, on Peru’s southern border with Chile and Bolivia, is facing some of the scarcest water conditions in its history as a result of climate change, according to a report by the...
View ArticlePresidential race tightens in final weeks to vote
Less than three weeks from Peru’s general elections, recent opinion polls have shown a sharp increase in support for Nationalist candidate Ollanta Humala and former Prime Minister Pedro Pablo...
View ArticleAuthorities investigate 18 police officers in VRAE
Peruvian authorities are investigating 18 counter-drugs police working in the coca growing Apurimac and Ene river valleys for drug trafficking, according to daily La Republica. The cases cover a period...
View ArticleCastañeda maintains optimism despite drop in polls
Presidential hopeful and former Lima mayor Luis Castañeda is still optimistic that he can make it to a run-off vote despite a struggling campaign that has seen him drop to fourth place in recent...
View ArticleA little Peruvian girl with a damaged heart gets help
UPDATE: EsSalud, the national health care network of Peru, has reportedly made a last-minute decision to assume the remaining cost for 5-year-old Valeria Vásquez‘s heart transplant. According to an...
View ArticlePedro Pablo Kuczynski, the insider
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski vs Alejandro Toledo. With three other candidates bunched between them, and less than three weeks to go before the vote on April 10th, Mr Kuczynski could squeeze into the...
View ArticleRegions plan for Earth Hour 2011 with cultural, educational activities
At least five Peruvian regions have said they will turn off their lights for an hour this Saturday to take part in Earth Hour 2011, state news agency Andina reported. In Iquitos, the capital of the...
View ArticlePresidential debate planned for April 3
The top five candidates in Peru’s presidential race have agreed to hold another debate on April 3, a week before Peruvians go to the polls, state news agency Andina reported. Candidates participating...
View ArticleCandidates to debate poverty, employment, security and drug trafficking
Presidential candidates will debate on April 3 their proposals to lower poverty, increase employment, as well as improve security and combat drug trafficking, Lima-based NGO Transparencia said...
View ArticleWorld Bank: Next gov’t needs to maintain macroeconomic, fiscal policies to...
The World Bank’s former director for Peru and other Andean nations, Felipe Jaramillo, called on the country’s next government to maintain macroeconomic and fiscal policies to reduce poverty. “While...
View ArticlePoll leader Humala says will respect Central Bank independence, FTAs
Presidential candidate Ollanta Humala, who recently overtook opponents in opinion polls less than two weeks before Peru’s general elections, said he would respect the independence of the Central Bank...
View ArticleFirst set of Machu Picchu artifacts to be returned on March 30
This week Peru is to receive the first batch of artifacts that were taken from Machu Picchu nearly a century ago for research at Yale University, Culture Minister Juan Ossio said. “We expect that the...
View ArticleIngemmet installs monitoring system at El Misti
The Arequipa office of the Peruvian geology, mining and metallurgy agency Ingemmet is setting up a system around the crater of the El Misti volcano to warn of any eruptions, state news agency Andina...
View ArticleYale to return all Machu Picchu artifacts by December 2012
Yale University is planning to send to Peru the last shipment of Machu Picchu artifacts by December 2012, state news agency Andina reported. The first shipment of the archaeological pieces, which were...
View ArticleTwenty-one dead, numerous injured as bus plunges 200 meters in southern...
At least 21 people are dead after an inter-provincial bus racing through Peru’s southern highlands went over a cliff early Friday, daily El Comercio reported. The accident occurred at 5:00a.m. when a...
View ArticleOP-ED – The 2011 Election: Facing a leap back to the bad old days
By Nicholas Asheshov Special to the Peruvian Times With the short end of a week before voting on Sunday, April 10, the first round of Peru’s presidential elections has lurched into a curtain-raiser to...
View ArticleFujimoristas pledge not to repeat “self-coup” on 19 year anniversary
Representatives from Peru’s Fuerza 2011 party pledged Tuesday not to repeat the 1992 “self-coup” of jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori if its presidential candidate and daughter of the former...
View ArticleGovernment Palace opens doors to show Machu Picchu artifacts
Artifacts from Machu Picchu, which were taken from Peru almost a century ago and recently returned by Yale University, have been put on display at the Government Palace, state news agency Andina...
View ArticleLooking into the devil’s jaws
La República daily distributed DVD copies with its newspaper on April 5 of a documentary film that retraces the murder 19 years ago of a university professor and nine students by a military death...
View ArticleVargas Llosa throws support behind Toledo
Peruvian author and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa has thrown his support behind former president Alejandro Toledo’s bid for a second shot at the country’s highest office. Vargas Llosa, who was...
View Article100 Years Of Machu Picchu
It’s true: a whole century has passed since Hiram Bingham re-discovered Machu Picchu, and Peru will be celebrating with typical enthusiasm. In the words of one government official, Culture Minister...
View ArticleMachu Picchu Artifacts To Return Home
After years of arguments, some quite bitter, Yale has finally agreed to send back some of the many artifacts it holds, originally taken from Machu Picchu and other ancient Peruvian archaeological...
View ArticlePalace exhibition of Machu Picchu pieces to continue until Sunday 17
If you haven’t yet seen the Machu Picchu objects that Yale University has returned to Peru, now is your chance to see both the pieces and the halls of the government palace on the Plaza de Armas. The...
View ArticleAuthorities look to create police unit for cultural heritage
Peru’s Interior and Culture ministries are discussing a proposal to create a special police unit in charge of taking care of cultural heritage, state news agency Andina reported. “It is a topic that...
View ArticleUncertainty shrouds Peru’s presidential race
Ollanta Humala wasted no time in getting back onto the campaign trail after losing Peru’s presidential election in 2006 to Alan García. Less than four months after that defeat, he was out, trying to...
View ArticlePolice remove land mines from perimeter of Lima maximum security prison
More than 3,000 land mines that were placed around Lima’s maximum security Miguel Castro Castro prison have been deactivated and removed, according to state news agency Andina. The operation was...
View ArticleLima and northern Peru to play key role in electing next president
The second round vote that will determine Peru’s next president will be determined largely on the electorate from Lima and northern Peru, according to historian and political analyst Antonio Zapata....
View ArticleInauguration of Machu Picchu artifacts in Cusco planned for July 7
The inauguration of the exhibit in Cusco of archaeological remains from Machu Picchu, which were recently returned to Peru from Yale University, is scheduled for July 7, state news agency Andina...
View ArticleMunicipality plans to start work on seven major projects, including...
Lima’s municipality is planning to start work on El Metropolitano 2, a bus line that will connect the city’s Ate district in east Lima to the neighbouring port city of Callao, by mid-2012, Mayor Susana...
View ArticleDatum Poll: Fujimori increases lead over Humala
Congresswoman Keiko Fujimori has increased her lead over competitor Ollanta Humala in the campaign for Peru’s presidency, according to a recent poll by firm Datum Internacional. The national poll of...
View ArticlePaul McCartney storms Lima
By Tony Darrington Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be. Whisper words of wisdom, let it be. If you were unable or unwilling to fork out the rumored several hundred soles for a McCartney Concert...
View ArticleEx-New York mayor Giuliani provides advice to Fujimori
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani arrived in Peru on Sunday to support the presidential campaign of right-wing Congresswoman Keiko Fujimori by providing advice on public safety and crime. During an...
View ArticlePPK confirms support for Fujimori, Toledo backs Humala
Former Prime Minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has confirmed his support for presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori in the June 5 runoff vote against leftist Ollanta Humala, daily El Comercio reported....
View ArticleTourists leave Puno amid escalating protests
More than 200 tourists who were stranded in southern Peru’s Puno department due to protests against mining activities have managed to leave the area, according to the president of the Regional Chamber...
View ArticleIllegal gold dredgers impounded on the Marañon River
The coast guard service based in Yurimaguas on the Huallaga River impounded three industrial dredges on the Marañon River this past week, in the department of Loreto in northeastern Peru, during an...
View ArticlePeru in shock move to abolish uncontacted tribe’s reserve
The survival of the uncontacted tribe whose images caused a worldwide sensation in February is in jeopardy, after Peruvian government plans to abolish a reserve that protects their territory were exposed.
View ArticleGerman experts begin research on climate change in Mantaro valley
Forestry experts from Germany’s Dresden, University of Technology have begun research into the effects of climate change in Peru’s Mantaro valley, in central Junin department. The research is part of...
View ArticleSusana Baca appointed Humala’s Culture Minister
Prominent Peruvian singer Susana Baca has been appointed to be the next Minister of Culture by President-elect Ollanta Humala, the incoming government announced by Twitter. Baca, 67, was born in Lima’s...
View ArticlePeru Gov’t looks to increase visitor limit to Machu Picchu
Peru’s Ministry of Tourism and Foreign Trade said Tuesday that a recent study supports more than doubling the number of visitors to Machu Picchu, the ancient Inca citadel perched on a mountain top in...
View ArticleNew law protects Bay of Ancon from port project
Congress enacted a law this week that protects Ancon, the bay north of Lima, against any commercial, port or other activities that would affect the environmental and social conditions of the area. The...
View ArticleChincha official says 15% of province reconstructed since 2007 quake
An official from Peru’s Chincha province, 200 kms south of Lima in the Ica region, say that about 15% of the 30,000 houses damaged in the massive earthquake in 2007 have been reconstructed. “On the...
View ArticleCusco’s Casa Concha opens doors for Machu Picchu exhibition
Cusco’s Casa Concha, owned by the Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad de Cusco (UNSAAC), has opened its doors for two weeks to exhibit more than 360 artifacts from Machu Picchu that were recently...
View ArticleScientists glimpse inside a Peruvian mummy
By Daniel Nasaw and Matt Danzico In a small room lined with shelves of skulls, fossils, bones and antique violins, researchers are using advanced computer imaging to study priceless objects, including...
View ArticleOne Million Tourists Visit Machu Picchu in 2011
The ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, uncovered from overgrowth and obscurity 100 years ago by U.S. explorer Hiram Bingham, will have received at least one million tourists by the end of this year,...
View ArticlePoll: Support Grows For Newmont’s Minas Conga Gold Project
A new poll by company GFK has found that national support for Newmont Mining’s massive Minas Conga gold project, located in Peru’s Cajamarca region, is increasing, daily El Comercio reported. The poll...
View ArticleAmazon road could cut uncontacted tribes’ land in half
Peru’s Congress is about to approve a highly controversial road that will slash in half the territory of at least two uncontacted tribes.
View Article500-year-old Chancay mummy found in northern Lima
Archaeologists in Peru announced Tuesday the discovery of the 500-year-old mummified remains of a woman from the pre-Columbian Chancay Culture (1100-1450 AD).
View ArticlePeruvian cuisine among Forbes top 10 food trends for 2012
Forbes magazine named Peruvian cuisine one of the leading trends for 2012 in American food and restaurants.
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