The phenomenon of child workers continues to spread, however, various humanitarian organizations are trying to protect the young victims. In the Peruvian province of Chiclayo there are over 3,350 children and adolescents aged between 6 and 17 who work and over 50% do not attend school. Fundaci�n Telef�nica has managed to send over 600 children workers back to school.   

While the Comptroller General, Fuad Khoury, has ordered the temporary freezing of most banking operations by the Ancash regional government,  Interior Minister Walter Alban announced that the government is to change the police leadership in the central  region, where a number of politically-related killings have grabbed national attention.  

The World Bank has provided Colombia and Peru some US$20mn each to assist the countries in introducing technology to streamline their judicial systems.  

heir Excellencies the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, and Mrs. Sharon Johnston will welcome His Excellency Ollanta Humala Tasso, President of the Republic of Peru, and his wife, Mrs. Nadine Heredia, First Lady of Peru, to Canada, on the occasion of their State visit, from April 9 to 11, 2014.  

Peru and the US. State of Iowa signed a cooperation agreement on agricultural and livestock research, postgraduate education in science, development in management of clean, and renewable energy, as well as reasonable and sustainable use of water resources, among other issues on Thursday.

The memorandum of understanding (MoU) which will strengthen cooperation was signed at the headquarters of the Iowa government by the governor Terry E. Branstad and the Ambassador of Peru in the United States, Harold Forsyth. 

The First Health Ministers' Meeting of South American and Arab Countries (ASPA) began on Friday in Peruvian capital Lima with the focus on universal health coverage and the Post-2015 United Nations' development agenda.  

Peru's culinary ambassador, chef Gaston Acurio, told me that "in the last 20 years, a community of chefs all over Latin America have been working together to get to this point" [where the food is attaining worldwide attention].  When I asked who's leading the charge for Peru in the U.S., Acurio replied that our own chef Ricardo Zarate "believed in Peru even before it was popular in the U.S., and is doing great things with Mo-Chica, Picca, and Paiche." Endorsement?-that's practically a knighthood.

Screening Tomorrow at the AFI Silver Theater in DC: PERU SABE. CUISINE AS AN AGENT OF SOCIAL CHANGE at 6:10 PM   

Sport shooter Nicolas Pacheco Espinosa was named Wednesday's night the "2013 Athlete of the Year" in a ceremony held at Lima's National Stadium.