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Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo who faces charges of corruption has been arrested in the US. An extradition request issued in March 2018 and he was arrested on a recent visit to Stanford University, near San Fransisco. He was sought after being named by a former Odbrecht’s Jorge Barata, who as part of a plea…
Copa America Final 2019 Brazil 3-1 Peru Hosts Brazil have won the 2019 Copa America beating Peru 3-1 in a game which Manchester City’s Gabriel Jesus won’t forget in a while. He was arguably the man of the match pulling off a rather obscure hat trick – scoring once, assisting in another goal, and then…
In the latest twist in the sordid fall out from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht’s huge web corruption, Ex-President of Peru Alan García has tried to seek asylum in Uruguay. Quite wisely they have refused. He initially tried by entering the Uruguayan Embassy and currently, his whereabouts is unknown. Given that political opposition leader Keiko Fujimo has been…
Peru’s Justice system is not one to cross as shown by the jailing of political opposition leader Keiko Fujimo for 3 years not for a convicted offense but while she awaits trial on alleged Corruption charges. Peru is a pretty corrupt country at the best of times (Peru ranked Joint 96 in the latest Transparency…
Craig Taylor