Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 2012, the official website of Perú.21 was briefly blocked by the Government of Peru after it had published an article criticizing the government's budget management. [3] A few months later, a former journalist who had earlier worked for Perú.21 was arrested and imprisoned for hacking into the email accounts of government officials. [4]
El Comercio Group is the largest media conglomerate in Peru and one of the largest in South America. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Though they opposed the Alberto Fujimori government, [ 12 ] [ 13 ] the company has typically supported right-wing politicians, including President Alan García and Alberto's daughter, Keiko Fujimori . [ 5 ]
As a writer, he has published features and columns in the main newspapers and magazines in Peru. He is a columnist for the "Peru 21" newspaper. His first novel, "Maldita Ternura" ("Damned Tenderness") (Lima: Editorial Alfaguara, 2004) was a best-seller in Peru. He was the host of his own TV interview show "Callate Beto" ("Shut up Beto") on RBC ...
The primary candidates in Peruvian elections typically become apparent two months prior to elections. [1] In the first wave of support, Yonhy Lescano saw initial support, though he was surpassed by Rafael López Aliaga, a far-right businessman whose speech was similar to Catholic extremism. [2]
Vargas Llosa ran and lost against Alberto Fujimori in Peru's 1990 elections, [167] and had previously criticized Fujimori, making statements such as "the worst option is that of Keiko Fujimori because it means the legitimation of one of the worst dictatorships that Peru has had in its history" [168] and that "Keiko is the daughter of a murderer ...
[230] [231] Peru's physical land-based telephone network had a dramatic increase in telephone penetration from 2.9% in 1993 to 5.9% in 1996 and 6.2% in 2000, [232] and a dramatic decrease in the wait for a telephone line: the average wait went from 70 months in 1993 (before privatization) to two months in 1996 (after privatization). [233]
Popular Renewal (Spanish: Renovación Popular, RP) is a Peruvian conservative political party. Founded in 2020, the party is the successor of the former National Solidarity Party founded and led by former Lima Mayor Luis Castañeda Lossio.
Berckemeyer was born in Lima on 20 February 1978. The son of Fernando Berckemeyer Conroy and Ana María Olaechea Álvarez-Calderón, on his mother's side, he comes from a renowned family of jurists and politicians, being Manuel Pablo Olaechea, Prime Minister of Peru in the late nineteenth century, his great-grandfather, and Finance Minister Manuel Augusto Olaechea, his grandfather.