Peru's Humala gains in poll on kidnap, mine rescues

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian President Ollanta Humala's approval rating climbed to 56 percent in April, boosted by the release of energy industry workers kidnapped by Shining Path rebels, an Ipsos Apoyo poll showed on Sunday. The president's approval rating rose 3 percentage points from the previous monthly opinion poll following last weekend's liberation of the 36 gas pipeline workers in a remote ...

Peru's President: Minas Conga Improvements Must Be Carried Out

President Ollanta Humala said Friday that Minera Yanacocha will have to carry out a series of measures to improve the stalled Minas Conga copper and gold project before it can proceed.

Exclusive: Peru's president faces claim at Americas rights commission

LIMA (Reuters) - A lawsuit Peruvian President Ollanta Humala successfully fought in courts before being elected has been filed to the main human rights body in the Americas - potentially reopening a case that cost him politically in the past. Documents reviewed by Reuters show that lawyers for a relative of two people who were disappeared in 1992, when Humala was an army officer battling Maoist ...

Peru's president: no problem in relations with Britain after cancellation of warship's visit

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's president is denying that problems exist in the country's relations with Britain after Peru's decision to cancel a visit by a British navy frigate.Britain last week criticized the decision to cancel the warship's visit. Peru said the visit was canceled out of solidarity with Argentina in its dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands.President Ollanta Humala says in ...

The Case for Peru: EPU

NEW YORK (ETF Digest) -- After a recent series of rises and falls, the MSCI All Peru Capped Index Fund has recovered most of its losses and is trading at a healthy $44.87 per share (as of March 14), just 11% below its all-time high of $50.47 in February 2011. Investors were spooked in June 2011 when the left wing candidate Ollanta Humala won definitively in a runoff presidential election against ...

Peru captures rebel leader. Is this the end of the Shining Path?

President Ollanta Humala declared the Maoist guerrilla group is no longer a threat after the capture of Comrade Artemio, reports guest blogger Hannah Stone.

Peru's Humala Looks To Resolve Mining Dispute In Tacna

President Ollanta Humala is expected to meet with authorities from southern Peru's Tacna region in an attempt to resolve concerns about the mining sector's use of water.

Peru president says annoyed by Berenson holiday trip to NY

LIMA, Peru — Peru’s president said Saturday that he is annoyed a judge granted a holiday trip to New York for a U.S. woman convicted of aiding guerrillas in the country

Bolivia’s Morales hopes to build railway to Peru to ferry exports to port

LIMA, Peru — Bolivia’s president says he hopes to build a new railway linking his country to Peru that would facilitate exports to Asia. Bolivian President Evo Morales says he has discussed the plan with Peruvian President Ollanta Humala. Morales tells the Peruvian radio station RPP that the railway would run from Puerto Suarez, on Bolivia’s border with Brazil, to the Pacific port of Ilo in Peru ...

Peru backs Bolivia’s coastal claim

Peruvian president Ollanta Humala said today he supports Bolivia's "legitimate" demand for Chile to grant it access to the Pacific coast, a long-held claim the landlocked Andean country plans to take to international courts in 2012.