Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, credited for taking down the communist Shining Path insurgency in the 1990s but imprisoned for 25 years on charges of human rights abuses and corruption, died on Wednesday. He was 86.
Dina Boluarte became Peru’s sixth president since 2016 late on Wednesday following the impeachment and arrest of now-former President Pedro Castillo, a widely unpopular communist who had attempted to dissolve the nation’s Congress and invalidate the Constitution on the same day.
Peru’s opposition-led Congress voted 76-41 on Monday to begin an impeachment trial against communist President Pedro Castillo over corruption charges.
A coalition of three political parties in Peru successfully collected the 26 signatures necessary to begin an impeachment debate against communist President Pedro Castillo, attracting popular support resulting in angry citizens chasing Castillo out of a public appearance on Monday.
Peru’s National Jury of Elections (JNE) officially declared Pedro Castillo the winner of the June 6 presidential election on Monday, ending nearly two months of uncertainty over who would lead the nation.
Peruvians remain no closer to knowing who their next president is on Friday after a shake-up at the National Jury of Elections (JNE) caused by one of its members declaring its investigation into fraud allegations biased.
A prosecutor on the case against conservative presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori of Peru requested her preventative arrest on Thursday.
Communist candidate Pedro Castillo appears to have won the Peruvian presidential election as of Wednesday afternoon, in a tight race separating him from rival conservative Keiko Fujimori by less than 0.5 percent of the vote.
Keiko Fujimori, the far-right candidate in Peru’s presidential election on Sunday, claimed late on Monday that her party had evidence of “concerning” irregularities that may constitute fraud.
The results of the presidential election in Peru on Sunday remain in a dead heat as of Monday afternoon, with a little over 34,000 votes of the 17 million separating communist candidate Pedro Castillo of the Free Peru party from conservative Keiko Fujimori and her Popular Force party.
Radical leftist Pedro Castillo and hardline conservative Keiko Fujimori are stuck in a statistical tie less than a week before Peru’s June 6 presidential elections, polls showed on Monday.
Military officials identified the believed-to-be-defunct Marxist terrorist organization Shining Path on Monday as the party responsible for the massacre of 18 people, including at least four children, this weekend in southern Peru.
Police in Peru opened a “preliminary” police investigation against presidential election frontrunner Pedro Castillo, a far-leftist, this weekend in response to accusations that he lied about holding a second job when filing paperwork to run for office.
Conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori has attracted a surge of support, bringing her within three points of frontrunner Marxist Pedro Castillo in Peru’s presidential race, a poll published Monday revealed.
Far-left vice presidential candidate Dina Boluarte vowed to voters in Peru this week that Lima’s middle class would “cease to be” following her running mate Pedro Castillo’s win in the first round of that country’s presidential election.
Keiko Fujimori, a conservative opposition leader in Peru, will challenge the “radical leftist” Pedro Castillo for the Peruvian presidency in a runoff election in June after Peru’s latest presidential election on Sunday failed to produce a 51 percent majority for any presidential candidate.
The Congress of Peru voted to oust President Martín Vizcarra on Monday using a constitutional provision that allows it to do so when it deems the president “morally incapable” of running the country.
President Martín Vizcarra of Peru dissolved the nation’s Congress on Monday after it denied him the power to check judicial appointments.
The Brazilian contractor Odebrecht – implicated in hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of bribes throughout South America – filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, seeking to restructure some $20 billion in debt.
Two-time Peruvian President Alan García ended his life with a gunshot wound to the head Wednesday after excusing himself from the presence of investigators seeking to detain him on corruption charges and retreating to his bedroom.
Peru’s Interior Minister Mauro Medina issued a statement Thursday vowing “appropriate measures” after a selfie of conservative Popular Force party leader Keiko Fujimori in the back of a police car began making the rounds on social media.
Peruvian Judge Richard Concepción Carhuancho ordered the arrest of conservative opposition party leader Keiko Fujimori on Wednesday, along with 17 other politicians, on charges of having accepted bribes and laundered money from the Brazilian contractor Odebrecht.
Peru lived yet another tense moment on Friday morning as President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski threatened to withdraw his resignation from the nation’s highest office if Congress rejected it and pursued impeachment proceedings, instead.
Peruvian courts are weighing whether to prevent Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who resigned as president on Wednesday, from leaving the country following multiple allegations of corruption, including one linking him to the disgraced Brazilian firm Odebrecht.
After barely a year and a half in office, centrist businessman Pedro Pablo Kuczynski presented his resignation from the presidency of Peru to the nation’s legislature on Wednesday following a scandal involving videos purporting to show him discussing the purchase of votes.
An attorney for Abimael Guzmán, the head of a Peruvian Marxist terrorist group responsible for over 35,000 deaths, demanded his client’s freedom on Wednesday, citing a medical pardon for the president in charge during his capture, Alberto Fujimori.
On Sunday, French voters cast both the left and right establishment parties of their country out of the running for the presidency, opting instead for a choice between the populist right and a former socialist now selling himself as the safe bet.
A policy dispute in Peru’s presidential runoff election turned racially insensitive this week when the campaign advisor for candidate Pedro Pablo Kuczynski called opposing candidate Keiko Fujimori — a Japanese-Peruvian — a “chinawoman” and said her criticism of his policies was because “her eyes have gotten too wrinkly and she can’t read very well.”
Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, has swept Peru’s presidential elections Sunday with 39.46 percent of the vote. In a run-off vote, she will face economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, whom she defeated by a solid 15 percentage points.
Peru’s National Electoral Panel has eliminated two of the top three polling candidates for president in the nation’s upcoming elections, leaving center-right Senator Keiko Fujimori with a clear path to victory in April. The nation’s electoral board eliminated candidates Julio
Conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori is leading Peru’s presidential election with 32 percent of the vote, according to the latest national polls, signaling a potential shift rightward for yet another South American nation.