Alan Garcia News

Lima, Nov 9 Peruvian President Alan Garcia is beginning on Monday a tour of Asia that includes official visits to Japan and South Korea and attend the 17th APEC Forum in Singapore.

The city of Toronto will host the 2015 Pan American Games, the 42 member nations of the Pan American Sport Organization decided Friday afternoon at their general assembly in Guadalajara.

Canada's Talisman Energy Inc has found light crude in an exploration bloc in northern Peru, President Alan Garcia said on Saturday, days after he announced a large natural gas find in an Amazon region.

Brazil's state-run oil company says it cannot confirm a claim by Peru's president that it has found at least 1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in Peru.

Lima, Nov 6 Peruvian President Alan Garcia will travel to Guadalajara to support Limas candidacy for the 2015 Pan American Games.

President Alan Garcia says Brazil's state-run Petrobras has found at least 1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in Peru's jungle, enough to ensure the Andean country's gas supply through 2050.

President Ramon F. Magsaysay's untimely passing away on March 17, 1957, thrust Vice President Carlos P. Garcia to the presidency of the Philippines.

LIMA: Two workers died and two were missing after an attack on Chinese miner Zijin's Rio Blanco copper project in Peru, a sign the government's push to lure foreign investment has polarized domestic politics.

THE United Nations Security Council is to hold a crisis meeting today on Afghanistan, following a deadly attack on a UN guesthouse in Kabul this week, the world body said.

Few wounds heal more slowly than those inflicted by a civil war. Dan Collyns reports from Peru where people are still struggling for reconciliation nearly a decade after the killing ended.

Peruvian President Alan Garcia and his Ecuadorian counterpart Rafael Correa on Thursday held talks which were described by them as "historical" following armed confrontation over a century.

Peru is only one percentage point away from halving the proportion of its people living in extreme poverty, one of the Millennium Development Goals agreed by the international community in 2000, according to a United Nations report.

Andy Garcia performs in Tbilisi as Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili during a shooting of scenes for a film about the Russian-Georgian war last year enlarge Andy Garcia is playing a very different type of leading man this week.

Spain supported the proposal presented by Peru to the Union of South American Nations to stop spending on weapons in the region, a senior Spanish official said Friday.

Peru's national federation of mining unions has started a two-day nationwide strike to pressure the government to change rules on labor benefits, although unions at several key mines had said they would not participate in the walkout.

"That is the struggle that the indigenous people are waging today. The Amazonian indigenous people are fighting not just for themselves or Peru; they are fighting to defend the lungs of the planet.

Co-Founder of Boku International, Reno Rolle meets Peruvian President and delivers a powerful speech on the importance of organic nutrition VENTURA, CA, October 15, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- While in Lima on business, Reno R. Rolle and his wife Lynn, the CEO of BA KU International, LLC ,were given the opportunity to attend a presentation at the ...

Lima, Oct 13 : Peru President Alan Garcia has awarded the Medal of Honour of first grade to the visiting United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan here Tuesday, WAM news agency reported.

Peru is holding a day of mourning in honour of one of the country's most famous singers, Arturo "Zambo" Cavero who died on Friday.

Lima, Peru, Oct 6, 2009 .- During Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of Lima, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne prayed to the Lord of Miracles for protection of 'the lives of the weakest and most innocent, of those who are in the wombs of their mothers.' In the presence of Peru's President Alan Garcia and other officials, the cardinal said, 'The world ...