Peru

UK NEWS: PERU DRUG ARRESTS – WOMEN SAY ‘THEY WERE FORCED IN TO COCAINE TRAFFICKING / AN OBSERVATION

August 14, 2013

Via BBC News Two women held in Peru over suspected drug trafficking have told a visiting cleric they were forced at gunpoint by Colombian gangsters to carry the drugs. Melissa Reid, 19, from Lenzie, near Glasgow, and Michaella McCollum, 20, from Dungannon, were stopped trying to board a flight to Madrid last week. A Catholic archbishop, Sean Walsh, visited the women in a police holding centre in Lima. The women are due in court later where they will be formally charged. The […]

VIDEO: RACIST TV CHARACTER RETURNS TO SCREENS IN PERU

May 27, 2011

Via The Voice Online A RACIALLY offensive comedy character is to return to TV screens despite protests. After a brief suspension, popular Peruvian television station, Frecuencia Latina, has brought back controversial comedy character ‘El Negro Mama’ despite being attacked for being a racist caricature of a black man. The channel was pressured to take the character off the airwaves after legal threats from African-Peruvian civil rights campaigning group, Lundu, who rallied to get the character, played by Peruvian comedian, Jorge Benavides, taken […]