Peru's Toledo ends presidency on upswing
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Alejandro Toledo grew up shining shoes in a slum, earned a Stanford University graduate degree and a World Bank job, and five years ago became Peru's first democratically elected president of Indian descent. His presidency ends Friday with Peru's economy looking its best in decades.
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Shinzo Abe ends troubled year-old government after string of damaging scandals and electoral defeat.
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By Marco Aquino LIMA, Peru  - An armed group which took over apolice station in southern Peru and killed four officers todemand the resignation of unpopular President Alejandro Toledowill not surrender on Monday as planned, its leader said.
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The resignation signals the end of a political drama that ended in Viktor Yanukovich's defeat after an uprising against electoral fraud.
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Peru's vice-president says he is fighting fit after collapsing after a series of tough TV interviews.
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By Jude Webber CALLAO NAVAL BASE, Peru  - Peru's retrial ofShining Path rebel leader Abimael Guzman turned into a farcicalmud slinging on Friday as one judge quit the case and theprosecutor called on the two other justices to resign.
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LIMA, Peru  - American Lori Berenson faces 11 more  years behind bars in Peru after the Americas' top human rights  court upheld her 20-year sentence for collaborating with  Marxist rebels, President Alejandro Toledo said on Thursday.
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The move signaled a shift by AndrÃ©s Manuel LÃ³pez Obrador, who says he was robbed of a victory in the presidential election.
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Deforestation and climate change are returning the mosquito-borne disease to parts of Peru after 40 years.
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Caracas, August 22, 2004âElectoral Council Board member Jorge Rodriguez announced yesterday that, âThe audit reached very positive results, which allows us to close this chapter of the electoral cycle,â without having detected substantial
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By Marco Aquino and Jude Webber LIMA, Peru  - The leader of an armed group whichtook over a police station in a southern Peruvian town threedays ago and demanded the president's resignation made a freshpromise on Monday to surrender.
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China's politically powerful vice president stepped down Sunday amid a reshuffling of the Communist Party leadership, removing from office a rival to President Hu Jintao.
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The Peruvian government bows to protests and reverses a decision to allow helicopter tours over Machu Picchu.
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President Hu Jintao of China ended a visit to Brazil, the first leg of a tour of Latin America that has raised expectations of untold riches in every country on his list.
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An armed group of ex-military nationalists released their hostages and surrendered on Tuesday, four days after seizing a police station and part of a Peruvian town to demand the president's resignation.
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Days before Peru&#039;s presidential runoff, the headquarters of the country&#039;s oldest and most disciplined political party is buzzing with furious campaign activity. Come election day, its old-fashioned, spread-the-wealth politics could return Alan Garcia to power.
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CALLAO NAVAL BASE, Peru  - Peru abruptly suspended  the retrial of Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman almost as  soon as it began on Friday after the guerrilla leader caused a  furor in court, shouting communist slogans and defiantly  raising his fists.