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Peru's public sector budget bill for next fiscal year-2015 includes 5.8 billion soles (over US$2 billion) for state-run social programs such as Juntos, Qaliwarma, Cuna Mas, Pension 65, among others. |
Production Minister, Piero Ghezzi, has formally began Peru's highly anticipated European roadshow to investors by visiting on Monday the Madrid Stock Exchange with a business delegation.
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Peru's Private Investment Promotion Agency (ProInversion) has begun the process of selecting operators for four fibre-optic network rollout projects. The agency has opened a tender for four projects to provide internet access to nearly 3,000 public and private institutions, as well as the general public, in four regions through the deployment of a fibre-optic backbone network. In total, the projects will serve 1,169 communities, covering 757,000 people and will require the installation of 5,201km of fibre-optic cable.
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 A new presidential tracking poll conducted by GFK shows President Ollanta Humala's approval rating at 26 percent, up four percentage points from last month.
According to the national urban survey carried out on August 24-27, President Humala's highest approval ratings are found in the East (42%) and central Peru (34%), followed by the North (22%) and the South (20%).
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 A local election board ruled Monday that the former mayor of Lima, Luis Casta�eda Lossio, included incorrect information on his r�sum�, excluding him at least temporarily from the October municipal elections.
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 On October 5, 2014 voters in Lima, Peru will cast ballots in the metropolitan mayoral election, likely either granting incumbent Mayor Susana Villar�n another term or returning control of City Hall to Luis Casta�eda, who served as mayor in 2003-2010. After a tumultuous four-year term, Villar�n's re-election bid has drawn international attention due to her status as Lima's first leftist mayor in 20 years and first female mayor ever.
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 Peru's export and tourism promotion board Promperu and 25 Peruvian agro export enterprises have confirmed their attendance at Asia Fruit Logistica 2014, to be held from September 3-5 in Hong Kong, China.
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 Regional producers and international buyers closed deals worth US$730 million during this year's edition of Expoalimentaria Fair, which took place from August 27-29, said Gaston Pacheco, president of the Association of Exporters (ADEX).
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 Although being able to predict the date on which the next big earthquake will occur is still some way off becoming a reality, it is now possible to identify the areas where they will occur. IRD researchers and their French, Ecuadorian and Peruvian partners have just measured the current deformation in the northern part of the Andes for the first time using GPS, where the tectonics of the Pacific and South American plates govern the high seismic activity in the region. The scientists then identified the areas where the fault, located at the interface of these two plates, is capable of generating large earthquakes or not.
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 The U.S.S. America, United States' latest amphibious warship aircraft carrier, has arrived in Peru for holding joint offshore training exercises between the American and Peruvian navy.
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 Peru is currently waiting for approval from the European nations that make up the Schengen group, however only a few hurdles remain and many expect the waiver to be implemented by early 2015. The European Union needs to draft a report that addresses such issues as immigration, economic benefits of tourism and trade, as well as the diplomatic relations between Peru and the EU.
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 Peru has started a process of close consultations with the United States for gaining admission into the Visa Waiver program, which will allow Peruvian citizens to travel there for business, pleasure or transit for less than 90 days without having to obtain a visa.
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 Peru's Foreign Ministry announced the Humala administration has sent back its top envoy to Tel Aviv after he was recalled five weeks ago as a protest against Israel's military operation in Gaza.
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What happens when you take an entire fleet of great chefs and gastronomic researchers, put them all in the same room, and tell them to speak about their opinion on the biodiversity and nutrition of food? Well the answer to that, of course, is the Qaray conference. A three-day event coinciding with the first three days of Mistura, September 5th, 6th, and 7th, the Qaray talks are sure to make your Mistura experience complete. Among the Peruvians on the list of exhibitors are the ever popular, ever progressive Gast�n Acurio, Hector Solis, and Virgilio Martinez.
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Protected natural areas in Peru have so far been toured by roughly one million domestic visitors this year, of whom a major figure corresponds to bird watchers, according to the National Service of Natural Areas Protected by the State (Sernanp). |
 The Ministry of Culture has declared Cultural Patrimony of the Nation for Las Pallas, a dance native to the Huanuco department. According to the board, the dance, an emblematic expression of that area and its culture, has an important historic and aesthetic value that adds to the societies to which it belongs, also perform this dance, during the feast of the Lord of Huamantanga (September 14th) and the feast of Santo Domingo (August 4th), respectively.
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Peruvian long-distance runner Raul Pacheco Mendoza took first place at the 32th Mexico City Marathon for second year in a row. |
 Peruvian boxer Linda Lecca successfully defended her WBA super flyweight title with a unanimous decision victory over Mexican Guadalupe Martinez at the Complejo Deportivo "El Cancher�n" in Huarochir�, east of Lima, on Saturday evening.
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 The Peruvian hackers have broken into military, police, and other sensitive government networks in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Venezuela and Peru, defacing websites and extracting sensitive data to strut their programming prowess and make political points. Their latest stunt may be their most consequential.
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 After a couple days operating on people in Iquitos, Peru, we realize we're going to need some more patients. We started with about 50 candidates, with hernias, tumors or unidentified pains. But most were excluded for a variety of reasons.
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