LIMA, Peru — Peru’s government on Wednesday backtracked on plans to outsource the sale of entry tickets to Machu Picchu to a private company, a week after protesters blocked access to the country’s most famous tourist attraction and rail service to the area was suspended. Peru’s Minister of Culture Leslie Urteaga, who had alleged irregularities and a loss of $1.8 …
Peru has struggled with diplomatic isolation as left-wing governments criticise its crackdown on protesters calling for the president to resign. In a social media post on Thursday, Peru’s foreign ministry stated that it was pulling Ambassador Jorge Raffo out of Honduras due to the country’s “unacceptable interference” in Peru’s internal affairs. Speaking at the Community of Latin American and Caribbean …
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