Peru

Date: July 20th, 2004 |

July is a busy tourist season in Peru, and the grounding of Aero Continente because it could not renew its insurance coverage has disrupted travel throughout the country. The airline carried about 65 percent of domestic passengers, leaving many people stranded. The other eight domestic carriers have united, however, in an effort to fill the [read more]

Peru

Date: April 27th, 2004 |

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Peru�s largest air carrier, Aero Continente, has lost permission to enter U.S. airspace because of safety concerns. FAA officials announced April 22 that the airline, which flies four times a week into Miami, would no longer be allowed to fly to the U.S. An Aero Continente official said that the airline would continue to operate [read more]

Peru

Date: June 18th, 2003 |

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A strike by 280,000 teachers that produced demonstrations, shut down major highways and prompted the imposition of a nationwide state of emergency in May ended with a settlement June 12. The union obtained pay concessions and called off its strike. In Ayacucho province, rebels abducted 71 oil pipeline workers June 9 but released them the [read more]

Peru

Date: May 6th, 2003 |

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The U.S. State Department announced that Peru’s Shining Path and other terrorist groups consider May 17 an important anniversary and the weeks leading up to and following that date could see terrorist attacks. The announcement states that “there are indications that terrorist organizations are continuing to plan actions directed against U.S. citizens and U.S. interests [read more]

Peru

Date: June 4th, 2002 |

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Residents of Aguas Calientes, the town at the foot of the road leading up to Machu Picchu, protested that they don’t share in the multimillion dollar tourist trade and their demonstrations May 29 shut down the train from Cusco. As many as 3,000 people a day visit the famous site, many coming on the train [read more]

Peru

Date: June 8th, 2004 |

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Peru�s major air carrier, Aero Continente, already prohibited from flying to the U.S. because of safety violations, is now off-limits to Americans wherever it flies because its owner was placed on the U.S. government�s list of drug kingpins around the world. The 1999 Drug Kingpin Act, enforced by the U.S. Treasury Department, allows the government [read more]

Peru

Date: April 13th, 2004 |

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Landslides caused by a flash flood destroyed several houses in Aguas Calientes, the town nearest the famous archeological site of Machu Picchu, and buried the railway line near the entrance to the site. One person was known to have died and at least 500 tourists were evacuated by helicopter. No tourists were injured or missing, [read more]

Peru

Date: May 28th, 2003 |

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The government imposed a 30-day state of emergency May 27 to blunt a series of strikes by teachers, health workers and farmers that have shut down key highways and disrupted transit in Lima and other cities. The army will join police in restoring order and reopenin [read more]

Peru

Date: June 18th, 2002 |

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Authorities declared a state of emergency in Arequipa, a southern city of more than one million people, after three days of demonstrations and riots protesting the privatization of two state-owned electric companies. Protesters blocked roads all over the city and caused significant damage at the international airport where they tore out landing-strip lights and threw [read more]

Peru

Date: April 23rd, 2002 |

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The bombing across from the U.S. Embassy in March suggested that Sendero Luminoso, the Shining Path terrorist group, was gaining strength after being essentially eradicated in the 1990s. Now the State Department has announced that it has indications that the group may be planning actions against Americans or American interests on or around the May [read more]