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GOOD Magazine
February 10, 2018
In an attempt to change that, the nonprofit CARE Peru received funding from USAID to invest in the health of 1,200 communities. Using the positive results of these investments, CARE Peru convinced President Alan Garcia to pick up where they left off. And it worked. By 2016, the percentage of stuntedÃÂ ...
Southern Cross
February 1, 2018
In Peru, 34 people died and hundreds were injured in protests by indigenous groups in June 2009, after the government passed a series of laws that could have given timber, mining and other industries easier access to indigenous people's lands. At the time, then-President Alan Garcia said indigenousÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 21, 2018
... in Latin America. What is wrong with Peru, that when one finishes being president, one ends up behind bars? ... “[Ollanta] Humala, is in jail, [Alejandro] Toledo is in jail [living in the US awaiting extradition]; [Alberto] Fujimori was detained until just now; Alan Garcia isn't sure if he's in or out. What is wrongÃÂ ...
WTOP
January 13, 2018
Alan Garcia, whose second stint as Peru's president ran from 2006 to 2011 and who's under preliminary investigation into whether he took Odebrecht bribes, has said he contributed about $30,000 out of his own pocket for its construction. “I want it to be a figure that blesses Peru,” Garcia said at the time.
teleSUR English
December 30, 2017
The news of the comments comes just a week after Keiko Fujimori's opposition party narrowly lost a motion to impeach Peru's President Pablo Kuczynski for allegedly receiving nearly US$800,000 in kickbacks from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht. In the audio, which Peru's top prosecutor'sÃÂ ...
News24
December 27, 2017
Lima - Peru's president justified pardoning jailed ex-leader Alberto Fujimori by saying it would help heal the country's divisions. Cynics say it was really aimed at saving Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's own imperiled presidency. Here are some of the key events leading up to the controversial Christmas Eve pardonÃÂ ...
Paulick Report
December 25, 2017
Jockey Alan Garcia, a mainstay at Woodbine in Toronto the last three years, will be wintering at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., for the first time. ... Richardson returned to Churchill Downs to be stakes coordinator in 1990, eventually becoming senior vice president of racing overseeing racing operationsÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
December 22, 2017
Peru's political landscape has been torn apart by the Odebrecht scandal, known by its nickname “Car Wash.” In addition to Kuczynski, three former presidents — Toledo, Ollanta Humala and Alan Garcia — have been tainted by the scandal. Humala is in protective custody awaiting trial on corruption chargesÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 21, 2017
Kuczynski is not the only politician under investigation for links to the Odebrecht. Peru's prosecutors office is investigating Keiko Fujimori and her party over allegations of illegal donations from Odebrecht to her presidential campaigns in 2011 and 2016. Former president Alan Garcia (2006-11) is also underÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 15, 2017
Legislators in Peru have begun impeachment proceedings against Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who is accused of failing to disclose decade-old payments from the Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht, which has been embroiled in Latin America's biggest corruption scandal. Representatives of most politicalÃÂ ...
Xinhua
November 13, 2017
LIMA, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Former Peruvian President Alan Garcia reiterated on Monday that he had never received bribes from Brazilian ...
teleSUR English
November 10, 2017
He said Jorge Barata, former Odebrecht representative in Peru, should be ... Humala and Alan Garcia, who was referred to as "AG" in his notes.
Andean Airmail & PERUVIAN TIMES
October 6, 2017
The host of the three-day convention was Peru's Attorney General, ... ex President Alan Garcia is now under preliminary investigation, with his ...
Voice of America
September 18, 2017
Mercedes Araoz, Peru's new prime minister, said on local ... and former finance minister in the 2006-2011 term of former President Alan Garcia.
teleSUR English
December 31, 1999
Former Peru's President Alan Garcia toasts with ministers during his last cabinet meeting at the government palace in Lima, July 27, 2011.
The News Tribune
September 18, 2017
She served as economy minister during part of the 2006-11 administration of President Alan Garcia. Araoz replaced Fernando Zavala, who lostÃÂ ...
Omaha World-Herald
September 17, 2017
Milo Stanojevich, director of CARE in Peru, said a new program by U.S. AID ... When Alan Garcia was elected president, he pledged to reduceÃÂ ...
Yahoo7 News
September 8, 2017
The events took place on June 18-19, 1986, during the first government of ex-president Alan Garcia, who along with several of his ministers,ÃÂ ...
World Politics Review
August 8, 2017
LIMA, Peru—Peru's political establishment has been shaken by investigations ... Meanwhile, former President Alan Garcia, whose 2006-2011ÃÂ ...
New York Times
August 7, 2017
Another former president, Alejandro Toledo, who served from 2001 to ... of state not incriminated so far is Alan Garcia, who served two terms,ÃÂ ...
TIME
July 13, 2017
(LIMA, Peru) — A judge ordered the arrest of former President Ollanta Humala and his ... of Toledo, Humala and former President Alan Garcia.
WTOP
July 11, 2017
FILE - In this July 2, 2015, file photo, Peru's President Ollanta Humala waves to the ... of Toledo, Humala and former President Alan Garcia.
Buenos Aires Herald
March 25, 2017
Though downward trends in approval ratings are common - especially in Peru - the president's slow response to the issues at hand threatens to limit his ability to carry out his ambitious reform agenda.
The Economist
March 23, 2017
... an arrest warrant was issued for Alejandro Toledo, Peru's president between 2001 and 2006, for allegedly taking $20m from the firm.
PanAm Post
March 15, 2017
Thus it will be clear that other presidents profited, but Alan Garcia did not," wrote the former president after the prosecutor's announcement in reference to the complaint filed at the Public Ministry by the prosecutor's office.
Latin American Herald Tribune
March 8, 2017
LIMA - A court in Lima on Wednesday rejected the request for a writ of habeas corpus filed by former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo in response to the arrest warrant issued for him for allegedly taking $20 million in bribes from Brazilian ...
Patch.com
March 6, 2017
Alan Garcia of the Bahama Breeze in Paramus won the restaurant chain's second annual Top Chef competition. Garcia won for his pauza tilapia with jerk butter asparagus and calabaza mash.
ParamusPost.com
March 5, 2017
The title went to Chef Alan Garcia with the Bahama Breeze in Paramus, and his winning dish was Pauza Tilapia with Jerk Butter Asparagus and Calabaza Mash.
Global Times
March 3, 2017
Peru rejects motion to dismiss graft case against ex-president Toledo. Source:Xinhua Published: 2017/3/4 7:07:34. Peruvian judicial system has rejected a motion to dismiss a corruption case against former president Alejandro Toledo, his defense lawyer ...
InSerbia News
March 3, 2017
LIMA, Peru - Keiko Fujimori, former congresswoman and 2016 presidential candidate of her right-wing Popular Force (FP) she still leads, is the subject of a preliminary investigation opened by the Attorney General into claims that she and party ...
Irish Times
March 2, 2017
A Brazilian executive has told the country's electoral court that his company gave the winners of the 2014 presidential election the equivalent of tens of millions of euro in illicit financing, further complicating the position of President Michel Temer.
World Socialist Web Site
March 1, 2017
Last week, on February 24, Peru's right-wing President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK) became the first Latin American head of state to stage a state visit to the Trump White House.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
February 26, 2017
Peru's former president, Alan Garcia, once slammed Kuczynski for not having "a single gram of Peruvian blood.
Latin American Herald Tribune
February 23, 2017
In Peru, Odebrecht paid $29 million in bribes to officials between 2005 and 2014, according to the settlement with the US Justice Department, a period of time that spans the administrations of three presidents: Alejandro Toledo, who governed Peru from ...
Latin American Herald Tribune
February 16, 2017
LIMA - Former President Alan Garcia on Thursday went to the Peruvian Attorney General's Office to testify in the case involving the Peruvian Southern Gas Pipeline and Brazil's Odebrecht construction firm, saying that he had "not the slightest fear" of ...
Voice of America
February 16, 2017
In Peru, former president Alan Garcia said he was returning to Peru from Spain this week to provide testimony into a natural gas pipeline project proposed by his government that awarded to Odebrecht during his successor's term.
Times LIVE
February 14, 2017
Inaugurated with great fanfare in 2011, the Christ of the Pacific has come to symbolise the giant scandal around Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht, which has admitted to paying $29-million in bribes in Peru in exchange for juicy public works ...
Peru this Week
February 11, 2017
Presidential heads are about to start rolling down the Odebrecht sewer system. Alejandro Toledo is the first president to hit the front pages of Peruvian newspapers, but I have a feeling he'll soon be joined by both Alan Garcia and Ollanta Humala, who ...
Expatica Switzerland
February 10, 2017
A year after former president Alejandro Toledo ran again in the presidential elections, investigations into bribes paid by Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht to politicians in Peru - just one of the twelve countries involved in the vast case - have ...
Lima Ohio
February 7, 2017
The bribes, used to win business in 12 countries, include some $29 million in Peru for projects built during the administrations of Toledo (2001-2006), Alan Garcia (2006-2011) and Ollanta Humala (2011-2016). So far three officials from Garcia's ...
The Economist
February 2, 2017
PERCHED on a sandy hill overlooking Lima's oceanfront is a 37-metre-high statue of Christ, a crude copy of the one that looks majestically down on Rio de Janeiro.
Latin American Herald Tribune
January 27, 2017
They include 2010 Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, fashion photographer Mario Testino, former President Alan Garcia, novelists Alfredo Bryce Echenique and Julio Ramon Ribeyro, poet Martin Adan, Marxist intellectual Jose Carlos MariateguiÃÂ ...
New Zealand Herald
January 27, 2017
The 21-meter (69-foot) statue overlooking Peru's capital was inaugurated in 2011 by then-President Alan Garcia. The $1 million statue was widely seen as a vanity project by Garcia.
Voice of America
January 25, 2017
Fujimori fled Peru for Japan in 2000 as prosecutors probed years of corrupt deals that his spy chief Vladimir Montesinos had hashed out with judges, lawmakers and businessmen.
News Sentinel
January 23, 2017
... President Sebastian Pinera, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore, President Obama, Prime Minister John Key of New Zealand, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei, President Alan Garcia of Peru, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.
Peru Reports
January 23, 2017
Peru's attorney general announced on Saturday that Odebrecht named officials to whom the company in 2009 paid over $7 million in bribes in order to win the contract to build the Metro de Lima light-rail line during the second government of President ...
Nasdaq
January 23, 2017
LIMA, Jan 21- Peruvian police detained a former government official accused of taking bribes from Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht in exchange for a.
teleSUR English
January 21, 2017
This case has exposed officials from Peru's last three governments led by Alejandro Toledo, Alan Garcia and Ollanta Humala.
Yahoo News
January 21, 2017
Prosecutors said Luyo and a former deputy communications minister they are seeking were among officials in former President Alan Garcia's government who alleged received some $7 million in bribes for the project. As part of a plea agreement with the U ...
Jagran Josh
January 19, 2017
On the other side, Indian Community in Peru is also quite small. Only around 50-60 families are engaged in business, trade and other professions in Peru. India origin organisations like Hare Krishna, Sai Baba and Brahma Kumaris are also present in Peru.
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