Latin America would have posted 1.2% growth last year, whereas Peru's 2014 GDP doubled it at 2.4%, reported Peru's Finance Minister Alonso Segura. 

Tahoe Resources Inc. agreed to buy Rio Alto Mining Ltd. for about C$1.35 billion ($1.09 billion) to add the La Arena mine in Peru in the gold industry's biggest takeover in almost 10 months.

The cash-and-stock offer is valued at C$4 a share, or 22 percent more than Vancouver-based Rio Alto's Feb. 6 closing share price, both companies said Monday in a statement.

The high plain stretches as far as the eye can see and the glint of sun on water in the distance marks Lake Junin. This highland lagoon, which gives this region its name, marks the place of origin for maca; a small, pungent root whose famed aphrodisiac quality has driven demand beyond the wildest expectations of the local farmers who have been growing it for generations.

It was on the shores of Lake Junin at more than 4,000 metres above sea level, historians say, that the Pumpush people domesticated maca more than 3,000 years ago. But only in the past few decades has it earned a worldwide reputation as an energy-giving root that can also be used for osteoporosis, hormone imbalance, menopause symptoms, prostate cancer and fertility.

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Peru presented its first KT-1P plane co-produced and manufactured in Lima today, after an agreement with South Korea that plans to give the country 20 new planes.

An agreement with South Korea's Aerospace Industries and the Peruvian government has granted Peru a total of 20 planes to be built, 16 of which will be co-produced here in the country.

The famous Sushisamba is celebrating in grand fashion, with a weekend of Peruvian-themed cocktails devised especially by in-house guru, Richard Woods. It includes the Matcha Pisco, which pairs Matcha tea-infused pisco with orange liqueur and egg whites. And should you find yourself hungry after three or four of these, executive chef Claudio Cordoso has prepared a menu including crab tamales and scallop ceviche to perfectly complement the unique flavour of the drinks. Couple all of this with some of the best views in London, and you're set to party in impressive style. 

Just six nautical miles off Peru's largest port, Callao, more than 7,000 sea lions pack the Palomino Islands, two small rocky outcroppings west of Lima, where the animals swim among visitors who dare to dive in the cold Pacific waters. 

Peru's Fernando Iwasaki was granted the Don Quijote Prize for Journalism for his "La Mancha Extraterritorial," an essay on the present situation of Spanish language and its future, published in a Chilean journal in August last year. 

Juana Burga is presently Peru's most internationally sought after model. Her Instagram account is testament to her globetrotting status. One day she's in Paris, another in Cusco, and the next in Barcelona.

And the projects she embarks on are just as diverse.

Jennifer Logan's relatives say they are hoping test results will reveal why she died at a retreat in Peru after drinking a concoction called "tobacco purge tea." The Canadian woman died at the retreat outside the city of Puerto Maldonado on Jan. 17 after drinking the tea, meant to provide a spiritual cleanse through purging, during a ceremony with a shaman.