Ollanta Humala

A rescue operation to free nine miners trapped since last Thursday in a mine in southern Peru could be delayed to two to three days, a top official announced.

It could take two or three more days to rescue nine miners trapped since Thursday in a mine in southern Peru, a top official said Sunday, as one of the miners begged "please, get us out of here."

Oscar Valdes, cabinet chief to Peru's President Ollanta Humala, said Sunday it could take two or three more days to rescue nine miners trapped since Thursday in a mine in southern Peru.

Peruvian police said Monday they were preparing to question the Shining Path leader known as "Comrade Artemio" after soldiers captured him in a remote jungle cabin suffering from a serious gunshot wound.

LIMA (Reuters) - The most important leader of Peru's leftist Shining Path insurgency has been captured by security forces after being shot in a remote jungle rife with drug trafficking, President Ollanta Humala said on Sunday, announcing his first major victory against what remains of the rebel group.

INAPARI, Peru (Reuters) - Nearly 300 Haitians fleeing the poverty of their earthquake-ravaged homeland have been stuck for a month in the Peruvian Amazon, where a gate to what they saw as a better life in Brazil has abruptly closed.

(Reuters) - With the British economy flat on its back, the Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) factory in Birmingham, the second largest city in England, is doing something unusual: hiring. The company is doing well. With exports to China and other big emerging economies rising strongly, Britain's largest automotive manufacturer recently said it would hire another thousand workers and build a new engine plant, creating a further 750 fifty jobs.

Two US surveillance planes are supporting Peru's campaign against drug trafficking and remnants of a Maoist guerrilla group, Peru's defense minister disclosed Wednesday.

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian Vice President Omar Chehade has resigned over corruption allegations but managed to hang onto his seat in Congress on Tuesday after surviving an expulsion vote.

Peruvian Vice President Omar Chehade, once seen as a close ally of President Ollanta Humala, resigned Tuesday amid a probe into an influence-peddling scheme.

LIMA (Reuters) - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, in prison for corruption and human rights crimes, is in poor health and will ask President Ollanta Humala for a pardon, his family and lawyer said on Thursday.

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian President Ollanta Humala's approval rating fell for the third straight month in December to 47 percent after fierce protests against a mining project sparked his government's first crisis, pollster Ipsos Apoyo said on Sunday.

Peru's government Friday lifted a state of emergency declared early this month in a region where a mining project had sparked violent protests, and scheduled talks for next week over the development.

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru and the consortium operating the giant Camisea natural gas fields have suspended negotiations over gas supplies and royalties, and talks should resume in three or four months, the head of Peru's oil agency said on Thursday.

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru said on Wednesday it could reopen negotiations with foes of Newmont Mining's $4.8 billion Conga project, a sign a solution to the month long impasse could be found, after a crackdown coerced protesters to call off their rallies.

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian leftists who supported President Ollanta Humala for years are leaving the government and may stop supporting him in Congress, saying his emerging authoritarian tone amounts to a further drift to the right.

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian President Ollanta Humala swore in a new team of ministers on Sunday in a shake-up that could lead to harsher crackdowns on social protests but will leave the country's free-market economic model in place.

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian President Ollanta Humala swore in a new team of ministers on Sunday in a shake-up that could lead to harsher crackdowns on social protests but will leave the country's free-market economic model in place.

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has picked Jorge Humberto Merino, who worked for the government agency that promotes foreign investment, to be his new mines and energy minister, local media reported on Sunday.

LIMA (Reuters) - President Ollanta Humala replaced his prime minister on Saturday with a former army officer who was his instructor in the military in a surprise shake-up that could signal a more authoritarian governing style in Peru.