Peru

LIMA, June 6 (NNN-ANDINA) — Peruvian Commission for Promotion of Export and Tourism (PromPeru) reported that Peru and United Arab Emirates have signed an air services agreement after 12 years of negotiations.

The deal was reached last Friday and, as result, Peru has become the second-most important trading partner of the UAE in Latin America.

This move has enabled two of the ten largest airlines in the world to extend their routes to Peru, thus facilitating tourism and strengthening economic-commercial relations.

LIMA, June 4 (NNN-ANDINA) — Peruvian Foreign Affairs Minister Ana Cecilia Gervasi and United Arab Emirates Ambassador to Peru, Mohamed Abdulla Ali Khater Alshami, signed a bilateral air services agreement (ASA), it was reported on Friday.

The ceremony was also attended by Ministers Alex Contreras (Economy-Finance) and Paola Lazarte (Transportation-Communications).

This event was held at Torre Tagle Palace —the Foreign Affairs Ministry headquarters— located in the Peruvian capital, Lima. 

LIMA, May 11 (NNN-ANDINA) – All of the 27 miners trapped by a fire in a gold mine in southern Peru over the weekend, have died of carbon monoxide poisoning, local authorities confirmed.

Autopsies on the victims showed, they died from inhaling the poisonous gas, after the fire broke out on Saturday in Esperanza I mine, of the Yanaquihua mining company, in the province of Condesuyos, said the public prosecutor’s office, of the department of Arequipa.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s government will allow the extradition to the United States of the prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway on the Dutch Caribbean Island of Aruba, bringing her family hope there will be justice in the case.

Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot will face trial on extortion and wire fraud charges, stemming from an accusation that he tried to extort the Holloway family after their daughter’s disappearance.

LIMA, April 29 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Peru’s Foreign Ministry summoned Chilean ambassador Óscar Fuentes as thousands of Venezuelan migrants are trying to cross into the country from the southern border to “protest for the lack of collaboration shown by the Chilean police authorities” when a group tried to force their way into the country and circumvent the police checkpoints.

LIMA, April 10 (Xinhua) -- At least 10 people were killed and another 25 injured in the predawn hours of Monday after a passenger bus skidded off the road and plunged into a river in Peru's department of Lima.

The accident occurred around 2:30 a.m. at kilometer 109 of the Central Highway, the head of the Highway Protection Division of the Peruvian National Police, Col. Victor Meza, said, according to state news agency Andina.

LIMA, Feb 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Peruvian President Dina Boluarte announced the “definitive recall” of her ambassador to Mexico, citing the continued support that the North American country has given to deposed president Pedro Castillo.

Peru’s leftist former president Castillo was impeached and arrested for attempting to dissolve parliament and rule by decree in December, and Boluarte has since seen weeks of anti-government protests across the Andean nation calling for her removal.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — In an industrial corridor of Peru’s capital, a dingy stairwell leads to a second-floor safehouse. Dozens of Quechua and Aymara activists lie on mattresses strewn on the floor, resting up for more anti-government demonstrations as volunteers cook a breakfast of donated rice, pasta and vegetables.

LIMA, Feb 11 (NNN-ANDINA) – Peru has extended the state of emergency in several regions, to deal with the two-month political turmoil, that has claimed dozens of lives, in clashes between protesters and security forces.

A mandate, published in the official newspaper, El Peruano, yesterday said, the measure will be extended by 60 days, due to “continued terrorist activities and other illegal acts.”

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Landslides triggered by steady rains swept mud, water and rocks into several villages in southern Peru, killing at least 36 people, authorities said Monday.

Wilson Gutierrez, a civil defense official in the Mariano Nicolás Valcárcel municipality in Camana province, told local radio RPP that 36 bodies had been recovered in a remote sector called Miski.

Among the dead were five people who were riding in a van that was pushed into a river by a surge of mud.