Third Peruvian transport strike raises demand for end to Boluarte regime
On Wednesday, October 23, a mass strike took place against the government of President Dina Boluarte and the Peruvian ...
Robust democracy’s checks and balances would stymie Trump
Those fearing an impending dictatorship underestimate the robustness of our institutions and overstate the power of any ...
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What Venezuelans Think About Their Presidential Election
It’s been nearly three months since the Venezuelans went to the polls on July 28, and there is still contention domestically and abroad regarding the ...
Peru’s forced sterilisation policy could constitute a crime against humanity
Peru’s forced sterilisation policy could constitute a crime against humanity, a United Nations committee has said. More than ...
Peru: Fujimori Government’s Forced Sterilisation Policy Violated Women’s Rights, UN Committee Says In Landmark Ruling
The policy of forced sterilisation in Peru, which took place during the 1990s’, amounted to sex-based violence and intersectional discrimination, particularly against Indigenous, rural, and ...
UN Committee Urges Peru To Compensate Forced Sterilisation Victims
A UN committee urged Peru Wednesday to compensate women who were forcibly sterilised in the 1990s, ruling that the state policy could constitute a "crime against humanity".
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UN: Peru's Fujimori Sterilisation Policy Violated Rights
GENEVA - The policy of forced sterilisation in Peru, which took place during the 1990s', amounted to sex-based violence and intersectional ...
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Peruvian theologian the Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, father of influential liberation theology, has died
Alberto Fujimori, Peru’s controversial former president, buried after 3 days of national mourning Gutiérrez, who himself was never disciplined, told reporters in 2015 that liberation theology as a ...
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Peru ex-president Toledo gets 20 years for corruption
He memorably faxed in his resignation, but was arrested years later in Chile and sent back to Peru for trial. Fujimori was released from prison on humanitarian grounds in December last year while ...
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Alejandro Toledo joins list of Peruvian presidents imprisoned for graft
as in the Fujimori and Toledo cases. Toledo is the first former president to be sentenced in this chapter of Peru’s Odebrecht investigation. Two other former presidents — Pedro Pablo Kuczynski ...
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Alberto Fujimori, Peru's controversial former president, buried after 3 days of national mourning
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Controversial former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was buried Saturday after three days of national mourning in which thousands of supporters lined up outside a museum in ...
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Peru's ex-president Toledo gets 20 years in prison in bribe case
Alberto Fujimori, who led Peru from 1990 to 2000, left office when he became engulfed in a major corruption scandal and went into self-imposed exile in Japan. He memorably faxed in his resignation ...