Peru's oil production is expected to increase in 2014 for the first time in over 30 years, as a result of the startup of output from new wells, according to Mines and Energy Minister, Jorge Merino. 

Peru's Association of Table Grape Producers, Provid, reported that the country had exported 16 million boxes of grapes by week 2 of this year, i.e. 72% of what was projected for the 2013/2014 campaign, said Jos� Antonio Castro, the guild's manager. 

Peru exported USD6.48 million worth of canned mangos in 2013, up 8% from USD6.02 mln in 2012.

The average export price in 2013 was USD1.32 per kilo, up 11% from 2012, according to the country's foreign trade consultancy Agrodataperu. Exported volumes fell 3% to 4,894 tonnes in 2013.

Peruvian blueberry exports could increase to 3,000 tonnes by the end of 2014 on a wave of rising interest for the profitable crop that was introduced in Peru in 2007.

Furthermore, the number of companies producing blueberries in Peru this year could double from the ten companies that were operating in late 2013, announced Federico Beltr�n, general manager of Peru's Terra Business.

In his recent book "Maritime Delimitation with Equity: the case of Peru vs. Chile", Manuel Rodriguez Cuadros, the former Foreign Affairs minister of Peru says that  "Peru and Chile have a maritime dispute, which involves three issues, in which the two countries have an express and objective disagreement -an opposition of legal views and interests."

Rodriguez Cuadros asserts that "The dispute on maritime delimitation strictly speaking opposes the Chilean thesis, which asserts the existence of a delimitation line running from parallel 18� 21' 00'' and the Peruvian position, which asserts that no legal instrument, not even tacitly, has established such boundary, for this reason the maritime boundary needs to be delimited in accordance with customary international law."

The book sets the legal framework and the facts surrounding the upcoming International Court of Justice's rule regarding this issue.

Policymakers are awaiting the court's decision with caution, but have expressed optimism about the dispute's outcome. 

Peru's government remains optimistic as it awaits a ruling from The Hague-based International Court of Justice over the maritime boundary dispute with Chile, according to Peruvian Foreign Minister Eda Rivas.

The government is awaiting the ruling "very optimistically, but without triumphalism," Rivas said last week after meeting with municipal officials from across the country.

Chile should "care for and enhance" its ties with neighboring Peru, Chilean Foreign Minister Alfredo Moreno said Monday, in the lead-up to an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on their maritime dispute. 

Peruvian President Ollanta Humala and Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja met Monday evening in Lima to discuss issues ranging from trade to investment and cooperation. 

Prince Akishino, the youngest son of Japan's Emperor Akihito, and his wife Princess Kiko will pay an official visit to Peru from January 26-30, 2014, according to Japanese government officials. 

Barranco is a district known for many as a place to go out and party with friends. However, slowly and steadily, we have observed in the past months, an upsurge of restaurants popping up here and there, offering a variety of food that can accommodate customers of all sorts and with different-size wallets.