Peru News

We have heard of murders committed for gains or for taking revenge. We have heard of serilal killers who take an unholy delight in watching lives being snuffed out. But this one is certainly strange. Here, the murderers kill so...

Police in Peru have uncovered a rather bizarre and sinister scheme that involved murdering people to extract their fat! Evidently the fat is drained off the dead and sold into the "black market" cosmetics industry. 3 men were arrested with...

Police in Peru say they have arrested three members of a gang who murdered a string of peasant farmers, drained the fat from their dead bodies, and then attempted to sell it to European cosmetics manufacturers. The men have confessed...

Conrad Enill has sent several Alutrint reports to environmentalist Dr Wayne Kublalsingh, but the activist says they are all irrelevant. His comment came a day after he and three other anti-smelter activists staged a sit-in demonstration at the Ministry of...

Burma is to double its output of natural gas in the next 10 years, the country’s sole operator of oil and gas production told a regional trade fair in Bangkok yesterday. Energy experts believe Burma’s offshore Bay of Bengal gas...

Entertainment Lima Peru.- the sale of tickets to the Heavy metal band 'Metallica' concert scheduled for January 2010, broke sales records today more than 24 thousand tickets sold in 72 hours in Lima, organizers said. "Since We started selling tickets...

Bachelet described Peruvian President Alan Garcia's remarks accusing Santiago of running undercover operations in Peru, as "offensive" and "haughty." She added that the comments did nothing to help the cooperation between the South American neighbors.

Councilman Ricky Burgess portrayed the legislation as an alternative to the already-bruising battle between the city and its institutions of higher learning over Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's proposed 1 percent tuition tax. State overseers yesterday rejected a budget that included revenue...

Speaking at the presidential palace in the capital Lima on Monday, Garcia slammed Chile for allegedly hiring a Peruvian military officer in order to pass on 'state secrets' to the Chilean government in Santiago. He dubbed Chile's purported move a...

The rejection puts the process of passing a 2010 budget into uncharted waters. Mr. Ravenstahl said he may ask city council to pass the 1 percent tuition tax despite the ICA's vote, while simultaneously weighing draconian cuts or a property...