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Buenaventura: Q3 Earnings Snapshot

Oct. 30, 2024 19:09 PM EDT

LIMA, Peru (AP) — LIMA, Peru (AP) — Compania de Minas Buenaventura SAA (BVN) on Wednesday reported third-quarter net income of $236.9 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier. The Lima, Peru-based company said it had net income of 93 cents per share....

Pacasmayo: Q3 Earnings Snapshot

Oct. 29, 2024 07:33 AM EDT

LIMA, Peru (AP) — LIMA, Peru (AP) — Cementos Pacasmayo SAA (CPAC) on Tuesday reported net income of $16.6 million in its third quarter. On a per-share basis, the Lima, Peru-based company said it had profit of 16 cents. The cement provider posted revenue of $137.8...

Peruvian theologian the Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, father of influential liberation theology, has died

Oct. 23, 2024 11:52 AM EDT

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian theologian the Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, the father of the social justice-centered liberation theology that the Vatican once criticized for its Marxist undercurrents, has died. He was 96. The Dominican Order in Peru announced on social media that the...

Peru’s ex-president Toledo gets more than 20 years in prison in case linked to corruption scandal

Oct. 22, 2024 06:24 AM EDT

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

Oct. 04, 2024 21:33 PM EDT

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

Oct. 04, 2024 15:45 PM EDT

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

Sep. 15, 2024 00:12 AM EDT

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

Sep. 12, 2024 22:36 PM EDT

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

Sep. 12, 2024 15:17 PM EDT

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...