Mining company Southern approved an investment of US$2.6 billion to complete expansion of Toquepala mine, build Tia Maria project, both in Peru, and finance expansion of Buenavista in Mexico. 

Latin Resources has signed a key deal worth US$4 million in cash and exploration commitments for the Ilo Este Project in Peru with Compa�ia Minera Zahena S.A.C.
Recent exploration has indicated that Ilo Este could be a massive porphyry system and the agreement provides the exploration muscle to unlock its riches.

Tension over the development of Southern Copper Corp.'s Tia Maria copper project is heating up, as opponents and supporters hold rallies in southern Peru's Arequipa region.

The project, which the government is hoping will restart after Southern Copper put it on hold in 2011, is at the center of a dispute over the environmental impact of mining in rural communities.

Indigenous protesters plan to shut down more wells in Peru's biggest oil block unless operator Pluspetrol agrees to pay compensation for pollution on ancestral lands, a tribal leader said on Wednesday.

Ecuador and Peru realize that the problem of human trafficking requires an international solution.

Peru's Council of Ministers has recently approved the organization and functions rules of the Quality Institute (Inacal) established by law in July 2014, and which will be operational in March. 

 Ariana Fernandez and her magnetometer have a terrific view of Peru.

Admittedly, it's no postcard image. Fernandez, a senior majoring in archaeological studies, goes in more for soil samples than scenic vistas. Yet with her bits of burnt earth and some world-class technology, she sees South America's past, present, and geophysical future in stunning detail.

"I'm helping people learn more about past societies, while fulfilling the science-y part of my brain," Fernandez said, clutching a handful of soil sample cubes on the way to the lab. "What I didn't expect was that I'd be creating a magnetic dating curve for all of Peru."

A tear came to the President Obama's eye Wednesday when Maria Praeli told him about her mother, an undocumented resident of Connecticut who had to watch her own mother's funeral on an iPad because if she had returned home to Peru, she would not have been allowed back into the U.S.

"She hugged the iPad as if she was hugging her mother," Praeli said, recounting the story later Wednesday.

Lovers of the Peruvian white brandy made from muscat grapes can raise their Pisco Sour on February 7 to celebrate World Pisco Sour Day.

By way of background since many people in the U.S. are not familiar with the brandy produced in winemaking regions of Peru and Chile, the Pisco Sour cocktail is said to have originated by Victor Vaughen Morris, an American bartender working in Cerro de Pasco, a city in central Peru. In 1916, he opened Morris' Bar in Lima and it quickly became popular with the Peruvian upper class and visitors. The cocktail underwent many changes until Mario Brigit, a Peruvian bartender working at Morris' created the modern Peruvian recipe in the late 1920's by adding Angostura bitters and egg whites.