Boluarte amnesties hundreds of security forces implicated in human rights abuses in Peru
Police officers, members of self-defense committees, and Peruvian military personnel who were under investigation or convicted of human rights violations between 1980 and 2000 will benefit from an amnesty law passed days ago.
Ex-dictator Alberto Fujimori announces his candidacy for the Peruvian presidency
Several lawyers have said that it is illegal for Fujimori to be a candidate. Meanwhile, his daughter, Keiko, and her political party, Popular Force (Fuerza Popular), are under investigation for money laundering.
Peruvian President Pedro Castillo leaves Free Peru party
“The decision obeys my responsibility as president of 33 million Peruvians,” the head of state said in a letter
Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemns pardon of former dictator Alberto Fujimori
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) considered that the Constitutional Court’s decision to reinstate a controversial presidential pardon granted to former dictator Alberto Fujimori in 2017, failed to give adequate weight to the right to justice of Fujimori’s victims
Protests erupt in Peru against the pardon of Fujimori
Fujimori’s dictatorship in the 1990s was marked by grave human rights violations as well as corruption including crimes of aggravated kidnapping, forced disappearance and murder of thousands of leftist guerillas especially of the Shining Path.
Outrage in Peru following Court’s decision to release former dictator Alberto Fujimori
83-year-old Alberto Fujimori has been serving a 25-year prison sentence since 2009 for crimes against humanity and corruption committed during his regime
US police monitored journalists, activists after George Floyd’s murder and other stories
Today we look at an investigation into police surveillance of activists in the US, the trial of 3 former health ministers for mass forced sterilizations in Peru and more
Peruvian President Pedro Castillo presents a bill to reduce poor families’ electricity bills
The energy bill, presented in the Peruvian Congress by President Pedro Castillo, will provide over 21 million vulnerable families with a discount of up to 15% on their monthly electricity bills
Peruvian President Pedro Castillo’s cabinet continues to suffer blows
Defense minister Walter Ayala is the tenth minister of President Pedro Castillos’s cabinet who had been forced to resign due to a defamation campaign by right-wing forces
Latin American movements warn of a coup underway in Peru
The Social Movements of ALBA platform said the resignation of Peruvian foreign minister Héctor Béjar is a clear example of the ongoing coup against the newly inaugurated left government
It’s official: Left candidate Pedro Castillo declared winner of presidential elections in Peru
Pedro Castillo of the left-wing Free Peru party won the run-off elections with 50.126% of the votes, receiving 44,263 more votes than his opponent Keiko Fujimori of the far-right Popular Force party
There’s a dirty tricks campaign underway in Peru to deny the left’s presidential victory
The campaign to overturn Peru’s presidential election results is one of “unconventional warfare.”
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