LIMA – Peru’s ex-president Alberto Fujimori said from his hospital bed on Thursday that a return to prison would be a “death sentence,” the day after a court revoked a pardon for crimes against humanity. […]
LIMA – A Peruvian judge has annulled the medical pardon for former strongman Alberto Fujimori and ordered him sent back to prison. Ex-president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardoned Fujimori, who ruled as a dictator during the […]
LIMA – A Peruvian judge has barred former president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski , who resigned this week over allegations he was involved in the continent-wide Carwash bribery scandal, from leaving the South American nation for […]
LIMA – Pedro Pablo Kuczynski on Wednesday tendered his resignation after just a year and seven months in office, in the midst of a “vote‑buying” scandal. Congress still has to vote on whether to accept […]
CARACAS – Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, announced that he will attend the Summit of the Americas “at all costs” to bring “the truth of the country” at a press conference at the presidential palace in […]
LIMA – Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has said that Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro is “not welcome” at a regional summit to be held in his country’s capital, Lima, in April. Kuczynski cited “a rupture […]
SANTIAGO – Pope Francis made a forceful call to combat corruption in Peru, calling it a social “virus” a month after the Andean nation’s president pardoned a former autocratic leader who had been jailed for […]
LIMA – From deep in the Amazon rainforest, Pope Francis demanded on Friday that corporations stop their relentless extraction of timber, gas and gold from God’s “holy ground,” and called on governments to recognize the […]
LIMA – Former president Alberto Fujimori called for Peruvians on Saturday to set aside their “grudges” in order to unite against violence and crime, appealing to his right-wing political base two days after being freed […]
LIMA – Alberto Fujimori, the former authoritarian leader of Peru, left hospital in the capital Lima a free man on Thursday, days after being granted a presidential pardon. The 79-year-old waved to supporters outside the […]
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