Peru News
Breaking news today Thursday 25th of April 2024.
Breaking news today Thursday 25th of April 2024.
The President of the Republic Dina Boluarte on Thursday afternoon enacted the bill to create the National University of Carabaya in Puno region.
The Judiciary has declared founded the request of the Ad Hoc State Attorney's Office handling the Lava Jato case to become the civil damages claimant in the preparatory investigation into the Olmos case —a request that establishes the payment of damages in the order of US$181 million by former presidents Alejandro Toledo, Ollanta Humala, and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK).
The Central Reserve Bank (BCR) on Thursday indicated that digital retail payments (by electronic wallets, transfers, credit, and debit cards) have increased fivefold in Peru over recent years, proving rapid development.
Actions to guarantee the safety of economic activities in Peru's southern areas were coordinated by Interior Minister Walter Ortiz and Association of Agricultural Producer Guilds of Peru (AGAP) Chairman Gabriel Amaro.
The Central Reserve Bank (BCR) has estimated that the Peruvian Economy will increase by around 3% in the second and third quarters of this year.
Complementary Municipal Elections will be held on May 26, 2024, in the districts of Pion and Ninabamba, both located in the Andean region of Cajamarca. Find out why this electoral process will be carried out only in these two jurisdictions.
Military personnel from the Defense Department of the United States of America, Colombia, and Ecuador, along with their military weapons, were granted authorization to enter our country to carry out training cooperation activities with Peru's Armed Forces.
The Attorney General's Office, through the Illicit Enrichment and Constitutional Complaints Section, has ordered the extension of the investigation into the President of the Republic Dina Boluarte and Ayacucho Region Governor Wilfredo Oscorima.
Representatives of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum's diplomatic missions in Peru participated in the opening ceremony of the "II APEC Inter-Embassy Confraternity Softball Tournament Peru 2024 – 125 Years of Japanese Immigration to Peru."
Peruvian Economy and Finance Minister Jose Arista affirmed that around S/1.2 billion (about US$323 million) is expected to be collected every year from general sales taxes applied to streaming services, for which legislative powers will be requested to Congress.
The meetings of Ministers Responsible for Trade and Women of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC), to be held in Peru's southern city of Arequipa, will include highest-level representatives of the 21 economies that are part of this free trade bloc, said Ambassador Carlos Vasquez, 2024 Chair of APEC Senior Officials' Meetings.
The Executive Branch will request Congress legislative powers in terms of economic reactivation, Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzen announced on Wednesday afternoon.
Peru presented, in Oslo, its position on the severe humanitarian consequences of the use of explosive weapons at the follow-up conference to the "Political Declaration on Strengthening the Protection of Civilians from the Humanitarian Consequences Arising from the Use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas."
The Second Office of the Supraprovincial Criminal Prosecutor's Office Specialized in Terrorism and Related Crimes managed to get pre-trial detention orders against Iranian Majid Azizi, as well as Peruvians Luis Filomeno Loja Vasquez and Angelo Felipe Trucios Leon.
The President of the Republic Dina Boluarte arrived at the Attorney General's Office in Lima on Wednesday morning to testify before the head of said institution, Juan Carlos Villena.
The Executive Branch has authorized the trip of Peruvian Foreign Affairs Minister Javier Gonzalez-Olaechea to Beijing, China, in order to pay an official visit to said city.