Lima’s Next Two Metro Lines Could Go to Tender in 2027
Peru's investment agency says Lima's Metro Lines 3 and 4 could go to market in 2027, using a new partnership...
July 13, 2026Section
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Peru’s Next President Inherits Latin America’s Heaviest Legal Load
Keiko Fujimori's incoming government inherits 22 international arbitration cases and 325 domestic ones, the heaviest such load in Latin America.
July 13, 2026
Peru Rewrites Electricity Grid Rules to Unstick Stalled Investment
Peru has changed its power-transmission rules to clear stalled projects and reassure investors, part of a push to modernise a...
July 13, 2026
Peru Finally Issues Key Rules for Its Reformed Electricity Market
Peru electricity market reform advances as the government issues a long-delayed regulation under Law 32249, opening the grid to storage...
July 13, 2026
Peru Exports Jumped 40% in May, Led by Mining and Asian Demand
Peru exports jumped 40.1% in May 2026 to US$9.3 billion, led by mining and Asian demand, as copper and gold...
July 13, 2026
Peru’s Congress Votes on a Record ‘Supplementary Credit’ Budget Top-Up
Peru's Congress moves to a final vote on a record 9.6-billion-sol supplementary credit, over warnings from its own independent fiscal...
July 13, 2026
Peru Defends Its Toll Roads as a Court Weighs Scrapping the Charges
Peru toll roads defended by finance ministry, transport ministry, Ositrán and ProInversión as Constitutional Court weighs canceling a southern highway...
July 13, 2026
US Food Giant Rich’s Buys Viafoods, a Peruvian Ingredients Maker
US food multinational Rich's has bought Peruvian ingredients maker Viafoods, deepening its bet on a Peru economy drawing record private...
July 13, 2026
Peru’s Food Giant Grupo Gloria Confirms Paying Spain’s Ex-PM Zapatero €200,000
Grupo Gloria confirmed paying ex-Spanish PM Zapatero 200,000 euros to recover Bolivia's $296M unpaid expropriation debt. Spanish police allege influence-peddling.
July 13, 2026