Tag: Peru
Seven million year old crocodile fossil found in Peru
The discovery of a historic crocodile fossil has given paleontologists clues to how modern crocodiles – which are now both salt and freshwater creatures – first came ashore from the…
President Pedro Castillo narrowly avoids new impeachment proceedings
Peruvian President Pedro Castillo was forced to rush back from Ecuador by car on Friday, April 29. If he hadn’t reached the border before midnight, he would have run the…
against a background of social tensions, the president proposes to convene a constituent assembly
While the regime of President Pedro Castillo is criticized by 76% of the population, according to the polling institute Ipsos Peru, the social crisis leaves no respite to the government.…
Machu Picchu and the treasures of Peru
Royal finery, gold and silver jewelry, funerary objects never exhibited outside Peru, the City of Architecture and Heritage, offers until September 4 an unprecedented vision of the history of Machu…
social uprising in Peru, the noose is tightening around Pedro Castillo
The Peruvian president faces a general mobilization of the country against the rising cost of living. And the least we can say is that the emergency measures taken by the…
an agreement for the compensation of the victims of the oil spill
An agreement was reached between Lima and the Spanish oil company Repsol after the oil spill caused on January 15 during the unloading of a tanker off the La Pampilla…
First trial of a former Peruvian president in the context of the Odebrecht scandal
Together with his wife, Nadine Heredia, Ollanta Humala is the first Peruvian ex-president to be tried for corruption in the scandal known as “Lava Jato” of bribe payments by the…
30-year-old Utrecht resident died in a plane crash in Peru
The cause of the plane crash is still unclear. It is not the first time that a flight has gone wrong on the Nazca lines. According to the Ministry of…
a maternity hospital must close in Haiti, an armed gang stole his electric generator
The maternity hospital in question is the Sainte-Croix hospital in Léogâne, a town located some 40 kilometers southwest of the Haitian capital. ” On Wednesday, a gang from the Martissant…