A violent, radical leftist mob stormed Lima, Peru, on Thursday, demanding the interim president’s resignation in defense of communist former President Pedro Castillo, currently imprisoned for attempting to stage a coup.
Police in Lima arrested nine people on Wednesday in connection with an alleged criminal ring that charged severe Chinese coronavirus patients up to $21,000 for an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) bed at a state-run hospital, Peru’s Gestión newspaper reported.
Police in Peru recently carried out a drug raid in the capital Lima while disguising themselves as Santa Claus and his elves, authorities revealed Wednesday.
A police-triggered stampede killed 13 people and injured three others at a nightclub throwing an “illegal party” in Lima, Peru, on Saturday evening.
At least nine inmates died in Peru during a prison riot demanding better sanitary conditions to protect from the Chinese coronavirus, the country’s prison authority announced on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump is expected to be on-site to herald the revival of the Lima Army Tank Plant at 2:50 p.m. Eastern Wednesday.
Cuban state propaganda newspaper Granma called for a regional “Latin America First” policy to combat the alleged “Monroe doctrine” revival occurring under President Donald Trump this week, promoting a “Thinking Americas Forum” to replace the pro-democracy Summit of the Americas that Trump is expected to attend.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced during Monday’s press briefing that President Donald Trump will travel to Peru and Colombia in April.
Americans who hold Peruvian land bonds are ramping up efforts to seek help from President Donald Trump and his administration in collecting payouts that Peru has been slow to pay, but a previous winner of the first-ever “Globalist of the Year” award stands in their way.
Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro has said he will attend the Summit of the Americas “rain, hail, or shine” despite being disinvited from the event.
The president of Peru has cleared the country’s former leader Alberto Fujimori of convictions for corruption and human rights crimes amid graft allegations against his own administration, prompting two-days of heated protests across nation’s capital, Lima.
President Barack Obama voiced support for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) at his Sunday press conference in Lima, Peru after the close of the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s 2016 meeting, while House Democrats prepare to choose between Pelosi and Rep. Timothy Ryan (D.-Ohio).
The U.S. Secret Service in conjunction with Peruvian law enforcement agencies seized $30 million in counterfeit money in its biggest haul of fake cash ever, the agency said in a statement Thursday.
New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio spoke at an Ohio event for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Sunday, where only 40 people were in attendance.
The “Panama Papers,” a trove of documents taken from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, have triggered raids by the government of El Salvador against the local Mossack Fonseca office, while Peruvian authorities raided the home of an executive of the firm.
