La presidenta peruana, Keiko Fujimori, anunció este jueves en El Salvador que construirá nuevas cárceles inspiradas en el modelo de mano dura de Nayib Bukele y que pretende adoptar algunas de sus severas medidas de aislamiento y control de los reclusos. El anuncio se produjo después de que la mandataria recorriera el Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (Cecot), la megacárcel convertida en símbolo de la política de encarcelamiento masivo con la que Bukele ha combatido a las pandillas. Fujimori busca incorporar parte de esa estrategia a su ofensiva contra el crimen organizado en el Perú.
San Salvador, 29 oct (Prensa Latina) El presidente salvadoreño, Nayib Bukele, recibió hoy con honores a su homóloga peruana, Keiko Fujimori, quien se encuentra de visita en el país con una agenda de temas relacionados con la seguridad, educación y salud
Uma delegação do Vaticano inspecionou locais importantes em Lima, capital do Peru, nesta terça-feira (27), antes da visita do Papa Leão XIV ao país, reunindo-se com autoridades católicas locais e funcionários do governo para finalizar os preparativos para a viagem do pontífice pela América do Sul.
A presidente Keiko Fujimori comemorou a confirmação da visita papal, chamando-a de “um bálsamo” e “uma grande bênção” para o Peru em meio às adversidades que o país enfrenta atualmente.
A visita ocorre após o papa se recuperar de uma cirurgia pulmonar que havia gerado dúvidas sobre a realização da viagem conforme o planejado.
Católicos peruanos expressaram alívio e alegria com a confirmação, com fiéis reunidos em igrejas, incluindo Las Nazarenas, onde se espera que o pontífice visite a venerada imagem do Senhor dos Milagres.
O papa confirmou a visita à América do Sul pelas redes sociais na segunda-feira (26). No X, ele escreveu que está muito feliz por voltar ao continente em que viveu na década de 1980, quando participou de uma atuação missionária.
O Vaticano também afirmou que o pontífice vai se encontrar com sobreviventes de abuso sexual por integrantes do clero católico durante a viagem.
The weakened Latin American left is celebrating Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s epic comeback in grand style — the “Pelé of progressivism” who is preparing to become president of Brazil for a fourth time. From Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum to Colombia’s Gustavo Petro, and including Argentina’s Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Chile’s Gabriel Boric, the bloc was quick to hail Lula’s victory as soon as it became irreversible, despite the defeated Flávio Bolsonaro’s promise to seek to annul the election. The right, split between acknowledging the result and remaining silent, has left Bolsonaro alone in his challenge.
Students, unions and families of protest victims demand action on extortion, environmental damage, living costs and police reform.
Young people, students, trade unions and human rights groups marched through central Lima on Saturday, demanding that President Keiko Fujimori’s government address rising extortion, deadly forest fires, the cost of living and alleged impunity for state repression.
Demonstrators began gathering at 4 p.m. in San Martín Square, a historic rallying point for popular movements in Peru. Participants included students from San Marcos and Catholic universities, human rights organizations, trade unions and members of the self-organized Generation Z movement.
The protests unfolded amid mounting concern over forest fires that have affected 16 regions across the country. Figures from Peru’s National Emergency Operations Center and the National Institute of Civil Defense recorded 479 emergencies, leaving 12 people dead and 708 displaced or otherwise affected.
The fires destroyed 1,299 hectares of crops and more than 13,800 hectares of natural vegetation, while also causing significant damage to local wildlife and livestock.
🚨 #URGENTE | Contra la extorsión y la crisis ambiental: jóvenes y colectivos sociales protestan en el centro de Lima
Text Reads: 🚨 #URGENT | Against extortion and the environmental crisis: young people and social groups protest in downtown Lima
Carrying banners calling for an end to the fires, police reform and solidarity with affected communities, demonstrators marched along Jirón de la Unión and Grau and Abancay avenues. Police blocked the procession from approaching the grounds of Congress.
Environmental concerns featured prominently in the march, with protesters criticizing what they described as inadequate government preparation and response to fires in the Andean highlands and Amazonian regions, including Cusco, Puno, Junín, Apurímac, Áncash, Huancavelica, Arequipa, Amazonas and Cajamarca.
One young demonstrator denounced the lack of firefighting teams, funding and preventive measures, arguing that the fires were extinguished only after rain arrived. The crisis, she said, had inflicted heavy losses on rural farmers and Indigenous communities.
Another protester highlighted flooding caused by heavy rains in Piura, in northern Peru, and the absence of a strategic plan to address the El Niño phenomenon. She also pointed to corruption in reconstruction projects and the neglect of infrastructure serving working-class communities.
Extortion was another central grievance. Transport workers, shopkeepers and small-business owners in working-class neighborhoods have been among those affected by the crime, according to the protest account. Demonstrators called for far-reaching police reform to dismantle corruption networks within the security forces and prioritize intelligence gathering and community-based prevention over the repression of social protests.
Families of people killed during social protests between December 2022 and June 2023 also joined the march, carrying photographs of their relatives and demanding justice. Their presence underscored the demonstrators’ broader call for accountability from a government they accuse of perpetuating impunity.
It looked like any other house in a residential neighborhood in the city of Trujillo, in northern Peru: a three-story structure, with iron railings and varnished wooden doors. But inside, it concealed a cell.
Overnight, the atmosphere at the Vatican has shifted and the future has become more uncertain. The news of Pope Leo XIV’s cancerous tumor has caused devastation, just 17 months after his election in May 2025, at a time when, at 71 and in good physical condition, he was thought likely to remain pope for many years. “We thought we had a pope for 20 years and now it’s no longer clear; this changes everything in the Curia, all the dynamics,” a prelate admits.
Login
