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Peru’s ex-president Toledo gets more than 20 years in prison in case linked to corruption scandal
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo on Monday was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a case involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, which became synonymous with corruption across Latin America, where it paid millions of dollars in bribes to...
Eva Vergara, longtime AP Chile correspondent, dies at 68
Chilean journalist Eva Vergara, who in her four decades at The Associated Press covered stories including the first protests against the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and revealed key information about abuses by members of the Catholic Church, died Tuesday. She was 68. ...
12 people have been killed in coordinated attacks in violent Mexican city
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Twelve people were killed in a series of coordinated and near-simultaneous attacks in the violence-wracked city of Salamanca, authorities in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato said Friday. The victims were found Thursday at multiple points across the...
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 Lima to visit the politician's casket. Peruvian President Dina Boluarte saluted the...
Peru declares 3 days of national mourning for former President Alberto Fujimori
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s government on Thursday declared three days of national mourning over the death of former President Alberto Fujimori and granted him a state funeral despite his convictions for human rights abuses and corruption. Fujimori, who governed the South American...
Alberto Fujimori, a former president of Peru who was convicted of human rights abuses, dies at 86
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Alberto Fujimori, whose decade-long presidency began with triumphs righting Peru’s economy and defeating a brutal insurgency only to end in autocratic excess that later sent him to prison, has died. He was 86. His death Wednesday in the capital, Lima, was...
Buenaventura: Q2 Earnings Snapshot
LIMA, Peru (AP) — LIMA, Peru (AP) — Compania de Minas Buenaventura SAA (BVN) on Thursday reported second-quarter net income of $70.7 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier. The Lima, Peru-based company said it had net income of 28 cents per share. ...
