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La Crónica (Peru) Cronicawan - Peru's first nationally circulated Quechua language newspaper; Diario El Callao Diario El Gobierno - online newspaper; Diario Correo - Lima; [1] owned by conglomerate El Comercio Group; Diario del Cusco - Cusco [1] Expreso - Lima [3] [1] Extra (Peru) Gestion - Lima; owned by conglomerate El Comercio Group; Hoy ...
BY FRANKLIN BRICENO PICHARI, Peru (AP) -- The dynamiting of clandestine airstrips by Peruvian security forces in the world's No. 1 coca-growing valley cuts into profits but hardly discourages ...
The newspaper Correo has shown a conservative stance during the era of terrorism in the country.. On April 25, 2015, Correo published on its website an article titled "La otra cara de la moneda: así atacaron los antimineros", which generated controversy over the veracity of the information, and they were accused of setting up scenes. [6]
Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega, following his arrest by U.S. authorities. Narco-state (also narco-capitalism or narco-economy) [a] is a political and economic term applied to countries where all legitimate institutions become penetrated by the power and wealth of the illegal drug trade. [2]
Cocaine started in eastern Peru in 1948 to 1949, and has been rapidly expanding domestic cocaine production, making it the world's second largest cocaine producer, after Colombia. [8] Cocaine began as a major product for the Americans at the beginning of the Cold War, and the production of cocaine from Peru emerged during anti-communist regimes ...
Prior to the conflict, Peru had undergone a series of coups with frequent switches between political parties and ideologies. On 2 October 1968, [39] General Juan Velasco Alvarado staged a military coup and became Peru's 56th president under the administration of the Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces, left-leaning military dictatorship.
The illegal drug trade in Peru includes the growing of coca and the shipment of cocaine to the United States. In an example of the balloon effect , dramatic falls in coca cultivation in the late 1990s saw cultivation move to Colombia .
Ojo was founded on March 14, 1968, as a morning newspaper in Lima. [1] Its founder was the businessman Luis Banchero Rossi, who had already founded the newspaper chain Correo, under the leadership of the Empresa Periodística Nacional SA (Epensa).