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One of the main lines of action of the current administration, led by President Ollanta Humala, is the fight against poverty, which decreased by 4 points to 23.9%. "That is why structured and multisectoral policies and programs have been implemented, which led to outstanding results," said Finance Minister, Alonso Segura. |
 Finance Minister, Alonso Segura, affirmed today Peruvian economy will continue dynamizing thru 2017 stimulated by the construction sector and putting into operation mining and infrastructure projects, among others.
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 Trade offices will be established in different regions of the country, Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Magali Silva announced on Monday.
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 Peru stands a good chance of realizing a long-sought petrochemical complex project provided the appropriate natural gas pipeline infrastructure is built, a US-based consultant said.
"There is enough [feedstock] ethane for a world-scale plant," Bob Bauman of Texas-based Polymer Consulting International. "However, locating the plant has its own set of infrastructure issues including housing for workers, roads, and the ports."
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 The Argentine oil company Pluspetrol will be fined S/. 37 million for contamination and pollution it has caused in the communities surrounding Lot 8, according to El Comercio. The company will face eight separate fines after they were officially imposed in 2012. Pluspetrol failed to follow environmental remediation measures and for contamination of Lot 8 in the area of Loreto in the Peruvian Amazon, they are being fined S/. 37 million.
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The Minister of Transport and Communications, Jose Gallardo Ku, affirmed the new International Airport located in Pisco (Ica region) will be ready in May this year. |
 Interior Minister, Jose Luis Perez Guadalupe, affirmed today Peru offers foreign investors the security they need because Peru faces the new forms of delinquency and criminality the way it successfully handled terrorism.
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 The Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (Minagri) officially approved a package that will convert hundreds of hectares of coca fields into alternative crops in the Valley of the Apurimac, Ene, and Mantaro (Vraem) region, according to El Comercio.
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Julio Urbina is building strong educational ties between Penn State and his native Peru. The Penn State associate professor of electrical engineering was recently awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach and conduct research in Peru. While there, he intends to forge a link between the two countries beyond a shared stage of academics.
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 The Peruvian National Council for Science, Technology and Innovation Technology (Concytec) will be allocating S/. 45 million to fund 120 projects this year, which represents double the funding compared to 2014, according to Gestion.
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 On Monday morning First Lady Nadine Heredia urged teachers and parents to commit to schoolchildren's education after highlighting Peru's progress in education and the nutritious school diets provided by the government for children attending public schools.
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In the award ceremony of the LEC Award (Business Leaders of Change) discourse, Rosario Baz�n - who will represent Peru in the global competition Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) in Monaco - received applause from everyone present, yet was perhaps applauded with more energy by the women in the room. On International Women's Day it was a pleasure to talk to Rosario Baz�n, a business woman who has never been afraid of anything nor ever felt strange being the only woman in a room.
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La Paisana Jacinta has returned to Peruvian television months after it was banned following a UN recommendation for its racist and discriminatory affects.
Frequencia Latina removed it less than a year ago and its return has been ignored by State authorities since. On the other hand, indigenous groups from more than 20 Latin America countries voiced their disapproval of the return of the show, according to El Comercio.
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Peru's Chancellor Gonzalo Gutierrez reaffirmed Peru wants Chile's formal commitment to eradicate any acts of espionage from the bilateral relations existing between both countries. |
 Chilean Foreign Minister Heraldo Mu�oz on Monday expressed his desire to overcome the controversy with Peru regarding the case of alleged spying raised by that country and to strengthen the bilateral relationship, although he said that for now Chile's ambassador in Lima will remain in Santiago after being called home for consultations.
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I the course of Mario Vargas Llosa's seventy-nine years, Peru has alternated between dictatorship and democracy with the sort of regularity that other countries experience through mere shiftings from one political party to another. During his nation's most violent and despairing periods, Vargas Llosa must keenly have felt the truth of his own repeated assertion that the writer of fiction wishes to replace the world as it is with another one entirely. |
Travis Wright may have grown up with pollo a la brasa in northern Virginia. But to think he and his wife, Jody, were going to open up a Peruvian rotisserie restaurant without actually going to Peru, that was not going to happen. "If we're going to be authentic, we have to be authentic. We can't say that our Peruvian research was done in Arlington, Virginia." |
The former City of the Kings-once merely a stopover for travelers venturing south to Machu Picchu or the Nazca Lines-has recaptured a taste of its old splendor, but the new royalty rules from the kitchen, not the palace. Ferran Adri� of elBulli fame declared the "future of gastronomy is being cooked up in Peru," and the Madrid Fusi�n International Gastronomy Summit officially named Lima the "Gastronomy Capital of the Americas." The rising tide of culinary excellence lifted all boats in the beachfront capital, and neighborhoods like Miraflores, San Isidro and Barranco now emit a vibrant cosmopolitan energy.
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 Mother of drug mule Melissa Reid has arrived in Peru in an attempt to plead for her return to Great Britain, according to Mirror news agency. Recently developed expulsion laws in Peru have given hope to the families of Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum.
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