Venezuela's neighbors accuse Nicolas Maduro of protecting 'terrorist groups' in Colombia
The Lima Group regional bloc on Friday accused the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of protecting "terrorist groups" in Colombia, keeping up pressure days after an attempted military uprising failed to dislodge Maduro from power. The bloc, a dozen countries in the Americas that ...
Embattled ex-Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski undergoes heart surgery
Peru's former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who is under arrest in connection with the Odebrecht corruption scandal and has been hospitalized for heart problems, underwent emergency surgery Saturday to install a pacemaker, his brother said. "He has come out of a fairly long operation ... ...
Odebrecht boss tells prosecutors of payoffs to Peruvian politicians
Prosecutors said a top former executive of Brazilian multinational Odebrecht gave details Wednesday of multimillion-dollar payoffs to Peruvian politicians, including a top aide of former President Alan Garcia, who committed suicide last week. Jorge Barata, Odebrecht's former chief in Peru, provided details of "money routes" ...
Thousands of Peruvians say goodbye to ex-President Garcia following suicide
Thousand of Peruvians said goodbye on Thursday in Lima to ex-president Alan Garcia — who killed himself this week — in the second of three days of national mourning declared by President Martin Vizcarra. Garcia shot himself in the head on Wednesday to avoid arrest ...
Odebrecht: The scandal shaking Latin America from Brazil to Peru and beyond
The corruption scandal involving Latin America's biggest construction company, Odebrecht, took a dramatic turn Wednesday with the suicide of former Peruvian President Alan Garcia, who was embroiled in the affair. According to the U.S. Justice Department, Odebrecht paid $788 million in bribes across 12 countries, ...
Alan Garcia was the charismatic chameleon of Peruvian politics, once popular enough to be elected president twice. But his terms were filled with ups and downs and he eventually became caught up in the Odebrecht bribery scandal that rocked Latin America. Garcia, 69, fatally shot ...
Mike Pompeo visits Colombia-Venezuela border and hears critic after praising Peru refugee policy
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ended a visit to Peru on Sunday and traveled to the Colombian border city of Cucuta, crossed through by thousands of Venezuelans fleeing crisis under President Nicolas Maduro. After attending a Sunday service in the Peruvian capital Lima, the ...
Peruvian judge orders arrest of ex-President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in bribery probe
A Peruvian judge ordered the arrest of former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski on Wednesday while also authorizing a search of several properties as part of a probe into a bribery scheme linked to scandal-plagued Brazilian builder Odebrecht. Kuczynski, 80, underwent medical exams accompanied by police ...
43-million-year-old fossil of four-legged whale found in Peru
Paleontologists have found a well-preserved fossil of a four-legged ancestor of whales that also swam, a discovery that sheds new light on the mammals' transition from land to the ocean. The ancestors of whales and dolphins walked on Earth about 50 million years ago in ...
Most trapped in upper deck, 17 perish in Lima bus inferno at illegal terminal
An inferno swept through a bus at an illegal transport terminal in Lima, killing 17 people trapped inside in one of Peru's worst fire disasters in over a decade, the state prosecutor's office said Monday. Most of the victims were trapped on the upper deck ...
Italy's Justice Ministry has ordered a preliminary inquiry into an appeals court's ruling that overturned a rape verdict by arguing in part that the woman who was attacked was too ugly to be a credible rape victim. The ruling has sparked outrage in Italy, prompting ...
Peruvians strongly back anti-corruption reforms in referendum, exit poll suggests
Peruvians showed strong support in a referendum on Sunday for political and judicial reforms introduced by the new President Martin Vizcarra to target corruption in one of Latin America's most promising economies, according to an exit poll. The proposed reforms were announced in August following ...
