Prime Minister Juan Jimenez said on Tuesday he was leaving President Ollanta Humala's government and that other cabinet changes would soon be announced by his successor - a local governor and former business manager.

Mr Jimenez, a human rights lawyer, said in a televised interview that he would be replaced by Cesar Villanueva, the regional president of the northern department of San Martin.

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Abengoa has issued $110m in secured project bonds for the 220kV Carhuamayo-Paragsha-Conococha-Kiman Ayllu -Cajamarca transmission line in northwest Peru.

Abengoa received a concession contract from the Peruvian government in 2008 for construction and operation of the transmission line for a 30 year period.

It's no secret that mining is one of the most important sectors of the Peruvian industrial economy. The high rates of production have attracted a large amount of investment, both Peruvian and foreign. The Mining and Investment Latin America conference aims to help inform and connect investors, experts, and producers. 

The ravaging of the Peruvian Amazon by a wave of illegal gold mining is twice as bad as researchers had thought.

That is according to a new study using groundbreaking technology that's discovered thousands of previously undetected small mines in the Madre de Dios region of Peru, near the Bolivian border, a global biodiversity hotspot.

Andean Community of Nations (CAN) members have launched a programme aimed at reducing drug demand in the region, a Peruvian official said here Tuesday.

The government of Peru on Monday threw its support behind India's claim for permanent membership in an expanded United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
In a joint statement issued during Indian Vice-President Hamid Ansari's visit to Peru, the two countries reiterated their commitment to democracy, peacekeeping and security, renunciation of the threat or use of force, peaceful settlement of disputes and respect for international law and principles of the United Nations.

The Peruvian government has set up a special committee charged with the organization of next year's 86th meeting of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) in Lima.

The U.S. Treasury Department said Tuesday it placed Kingpin Act sanctions on a man, his wife and five entities in Spain and Peru. Treasury said the five entities, Spanish-Peruvian dual national Luis Santiago Calle Quiros and his wife, Spanish national Maria Paloma Rodriguez Badillo, comprise a Spain-based money laundering cell that moves drug money from Europe to Colombia.

Some $3.7 million and 450,000 euros -- all false -- were seized in Lima from international counterfeiters hoping to pass off the bills as real in the United States, Peru police said Tuesday.

"This was a well-staged operation that adopted the same strategies as drug traffickers to conceal counterfeit bills and get them out of the country," Segundo Portocarrero, head of the police's fraud division, said at a press conference.

Digital Way, the only carrier-neutral provider of public Wi-F in Peru, has selected the Aptilo Service Management Platform to enable its free Wi-Fi service. Together Digital Way and Aptilo utilizing the SMP platform, a state-of-the-art system to manage mobile data services, have developed and integrated social media logins, convenient Wi-Fi access and a personalized user experience. 

"Jos� Andr�s, the chef who introduced America to traditional Spanish tapas and championed the path of avant-garde cuisine in the U.S., is opening a modern Chinese-Peruvian concept, in the heart of Penn Quarter in downtown Washington, DC. The restaurant will feature Chifa favorites-the cuisine known throughout Peru, melding Chinese style and native ingredients-with his personal and creative take on Chinese classics and this South American style. 

Peru's National Tourism Chamber (Canatur) said Tuesday that the South American nation is studying the possibility of establishing air connections with India via Panama.

If possible, India's state-run Air India could open fights from its capital city New Delhi to Peru's capital Lima and other regional capitals via Panama, said Canatur head Carlos Canales.

Peru's government has set a target of attracting 4 million overseas tourists to the country for next year, Peru's Foreign Trade and Tourism Ministry (Mincetur) has announced. 

Peru is hoping to see 4,000 visitors from Taiwan by the end of 2013 as a result of burgeoning economic and cultural ties, the Commercial Office of Peru in Taipei said Wednesday.

"Taiwan is one of the fastest-growing markets for us," said the office's director Gycs M. Gordon, adding that the number of Taiwanese tourists to the South American country has been growing by an annual 20 percent.  

My best friend Julia is coming to Lima in just a few days. She planned the visit as a surprise for me, and I am absolutely jumping with joy at the prospect of seeing her for the first time in months. I can't wait to share the wonders of Lima with Julia, but, for better or for worse, we're short on two important commodities: time and money. 

Every year on Oct. 31, Peruvians are faced with a dilemma. Should we celebrate Halloween, an American import, or Creole Music Day? Well, if you're tired of kids wearing masks and demanding candy, maybe it's time to celebrate a Peruvian holiday instead.

Creole Music Day, or "D�a de la Canci�n Criolla," is meant to celebrate the rich tradition of Peruvian Creole music. It's been celebrated on Oct. 31 in Peru every year since 1944. 

A few weeks ago, newspapers in Peru were splashing headlines about the huge blow the government had dealt to what is left of the infamous Shining Path - a brutal Maoist guerrilla group who, the stories say, have spent the last 20 years hanging out in the jungle slaughtering peasants and smuggling coke. The headlines announced to the world that Comrade Alipio, the group's military leader, had been killed.