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They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of...

They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of public service. But both also saw their legacies tarnished by their actions in the long, bloody

They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of public service. But both also saw their legacies tarnished by their actions in the long, bloody war in Iraq.

The tragedy could have been reduced to a minimum if it were not for the criminal policy of Peru’s central government, which abandons the regions furthest from the capital.

The Washington DC-based Human Rights Watch organization Wednesday said Perus President Pedro Castillo Terrones undermined freedom of expression after the head of state threatened to withdraw all state advertising from media outlets.

Political infighting within Pedro Castillo’s ruling Marxist party did not prevent Congress from approving a new cabinet.

Peru’s Congress will hold critical vote on whether to confirm left-wing President Pedro Castillo’s new cabinet.

By Fernando Gimeno Lima, Nov 3 (EFE).- It was 10.30 pm on Nov. 3, 1991, when armed men wearing balaclava masks burst into a neighborhood barbecue in the Peruvian capital’s Barrios Altos district and began firing submachine gun rounds at a group of people wrongly believed to be Shining Path leftist guerrillas. The gunmen killed …

Throughout the Americas, prominent politicians often find themselves before the courts over corruption charges. The prosecution of corruption is central to political accountability–voters can only hold politicians accountable if the process of judging politicians' past actions is fair and produces information that voters trust. Partisan capture of the judiciary results instead in corruption probes that are manipulated to serve electoral interests. This talk will describe the behavior of t...

The region used to be almost synonymous with magic realism but recent bestselling fiction draws on a legacy of dictators, poverty and sinister folklore