Alberto Fujimori Admitted to Health Clinic for Tests
Former President Alberto Fujimori was taken to a private clinic on Sunday evening for tests, following complaints of stomach pains. His family doctor, former Health minister and congressman Alejandro...
View ArticleNew Education Minister to Continue Policies
President Kuczynski swore in his new Education minister, Marilu Martens, on Sunday afternoon at the government palace and vowed that his government’s education reform will continue. “We have to run,...
View ArticleNational Plan Implements Search for Persons Missing in 1980-2000 Conflict
A national plan has been approved to implement the Search for Missing Persons Law, which was enacted in June this year during President Humala’s administration. The Ministry of Justice and Human...
View ArticleFrench Loan for Lima’s Rapid Transit System
The French Development Agency, AFD, has granted a loan of close to €120.5 million ($126 mn) to partially finance the construction of the Lima Metro’s Line 2. Most of Line 2 of the city’s rapid transit...
View ArticleWater Pressure in Lima Cut Back to Save for Non-Rainy Days
The Lima water board, Sedapal, began to reduce the pressure of the city’s water supply this week, in an effort to offset the lack rain in the central Andes. The measure will be applied from 8pm...
View ArticleMachu Picchu Extreme Makeover Plans Explained
By Rick Vecchio ✐ Peruvian Times Contributing Editor ☄ Nearly three years have passed since plans for an extreme makeover of Machu Picchu first came to light. Many travelers are wondering when this...
View ArticleThe Road to Ruins
By Gary Ziegler ✐ The Andean Research Expedition Report 2016 ☄ “Follow the roads; they lead to ruins.” ~ Gene Savoy (Here is the story about what that advice helped reveal in the remote Vilcabamba...
View ArticleNew Year, Same Tragedy
By Jacqueline Bhabha — The Mark News — Refugees and other distress migrants have been forced to leave their homes in exceedingly large numbers for the past 18 months. It has become commonplace to...
View ArticleThe New Industrial Revolution
By Wayne Visser —The Mark News — Corporate social responsibility can go a long way to addressing the many challenges facing the world today. To that end, we will need to replace the linear industrial...
View ArticleRescuers rush to save 7 trapped miners in Southern Peru
Authorities sprang into action Wednesday to rescue seven men trapped hundreds of meters below ground after a rock and mudslide blocked the entrance of an informal mine in a remote province of Arequipa....
View ArticleThe New Collaborators
By Zeger van der Wal — The Mark News — The massive challenges faced by governments across Asia can be better addressed through cross-sectoral partnerships, but such relationships also come with...
View ArticleChinchero — Lost in the Clouds of Poor Engineering, Bad Finance
By Nicholas Asheshov ✐ It seems President Kuczynski is to lay the First Stone of the new Chinchero Airport in Cusco this coming week. If so, it will be the third first stone for this sad project....
View ArticleEnvironment Minister says tackling social conflicts is “urgent”
Peru’s Environment Minister Ricardo Giesecke said Monday that tackling social conflicts in the country will be an “urgent” task in his portfolio, state news agency Andina reported. Social conflicts...
View ArticleReport: Environment Minister Held Talks For Job With Gold Miner
Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal held talks with gold miner Minera Yanacocha about a job offer in mid-2011, only months before his appointment to the Cabinet, according to a report by...
View ArticleInformal Miners Temporarily Suspend Protests in Madre de Dios
Informal miners in Peru’s south-eastern Madre de Dios department agreed on Thursday to temporarily lift protests that turned deadly on Wednesday, daily El Comercio reported. The head of the Madre de...
View ArticleMinas Conga Opponents Hold Protest Awaiting Environmental Review
Opponents of the huge Minas Conga copper and gold project in Cajamarca region held a 24-hour protest on Wednesday, only days ahead of when the government is expected to make public a review by three...
View ArticleTen Year Ban on Genetically Modified Seeds and Foods Takes Force Thursday
A 10-year ban on genetically modified foods in Peru came into effect this week, state news agency Andina reported. Peru’s executive has approved the regulations for the law that prohibits the...
View ArticleForest Fires Raze Crops and Wildlife in Andean Highlands
Park rangers and firefighters have succeeded in putting out fires in four wildlife reserves in northern Peru, but several other forest fires continue to smolder or burn in other parts of the country....
View ArticleEnvironment Minister says tackling social conflicts is “urgent”
Peru’s Environment Minister Ricardo Giesecke said Monday that tackling social conflicts in the country will be an “urgent” task in his portfolio, state news agency Andina reported. Social conflicts...
View ArticleReport: Environment Minister Held Talks For Job With Gold Miner
Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal held talks with gold miner Minera Yanacocha about a job offer in mid-2011, only months before his appointment to the Cabinet, according to a report by...
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