Peru has seen Latin America's greatest increase in people who have shifted out poverty into a growing middle class, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). 

The government also raised its estimate of inflation this year to 3 percent from its earlier view of 2.8 percent, according to a biannual report published by the ministry.

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has recently approved a pair of direct loans to two wind power projects in Peru for the acquisition of wind turbines required to power the Andean nation.
 

 

With the mission to take possession for Peru of a land called the "terrestrial triangle" located in a border area between Peru and Chile in South America, no more than one hundred people who begun the march from a province in the south of Peru, were stopped by the National Police of that country in order to avoid a political conflict.

Deli Viva had only been opened for about two months when the Peru This Week team decided to visit this new, four-table, cozy restaurant/cafe on the ever-popular Av. La Mar in June. Working in a partnership with Punto Organico, the organic market situated next door, Deli Viva uses many of the organic products sold at Punto Organico in the food that they prepare. Deli Viva enjoys an abundance of takeout customers as well.

Chincha, home to the Afro-Peruvian culture, is located about 200 km south of Lima. Now, whilst Chincha itself can be a nice summer destination, the main attraction in Chincha is actually located in a small town about 15 km from the highway called El Carmen, which is home to the incredible Hacienda San Jose. 

The F�d�ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) described Peruvian-born Christopher Olivares and Gerald Tavara as football wizards just after Peru claimed gold at the Boys' Youth Olympic Football Tournament Nanjing 2014. 

MANY Peruvians looked kindly on the government of Alberto Fujimori, which overcame both hyperinflation and the Maoist terrorists of the Shining Path in the 1990s. But after Mr Fujimori sent troops to close down Congress in 1992, Enrique Zileri, the editor and proprietor of Caretas, the country's leading newsweekly, who died on August 25th aged 83, saw him for what he was: an autocrat in a democrat's clothes.

Caretas went on to expose the shadowy power and dark past of Vladimiro Montesinos, Mr Fujimori's spy chief, who had been a lawyer for drug traffickers. It campaigned against the president's attempt to stay in office for an unconstitutional third term. With Peru's television stations and many of its newspapers bribed by Mr Fujimori (who is serving a jail sentence), Mr Zileri's principled stance was important.