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  • (Apr. 23) Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs met President of Peru, Ollanta Humala at the Peruvian Government Palace. Ambassador Rose Likins accompanied A/S Roberta Jacobson.

    Roberta Jacobson, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, is visiting Peru to participate in the World Economic Forum for Latin America

  • (Apr. 22) Melissa Schumi Jones, US Embassy Cultural Attaché, narrated a story about the environment to students of National School Juan Velasco Alvarado in Pachacamac. To end the commemoration, students exhibited their messages, poems and drawings about Earth Day at the foot of the trees in an area donated by the Mission.

    Celebrating Earth Day with children in Pachacamac!!

  • For the past 11 years, Embassy Lima has hosted a special jazz concert for Embassy contacts in honor of Jazz Appreciation Month in April. As part of our sponsorship for the ICPNA Lima Jazz Festival, a U.S. jazz group is invited to Peru and asked to perform at this Embassy concert as well. This year jazz vocalist Johnaye Kendrick and her eponymous quartet from Seattle, Washington, delighted attendees with a vibrant musical evening. Kendrick Quartet will offer on April 21 an afternoon public concert at Parque Reducto in Miraflores.

    Jazz Night at the Residence

  • (Apr. 11) The USG is supporting the Alliance because cacao is an alternative to coca that works. The fine flavor of Peruvian cacao is in demand and both the farmers and buyers stand to profit from this alliance. From left to right: Nicko Debenham, President of Cacao World Institute; Juan Ludovico Rheineke, viceminister of Agriculture; Carmen Masias, President of DEVIDA; and Michael J. Fitzpatrick, US Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission.

    The Peru Cacao Alliance is an innovative public-private partnership that will increase production of high quality, traceable, fine flavor cacao in regions traditionally affected by coca production and narco-trafficking.

  • (Apr. 11) Belisa de las Casas, Director of Latin America at WEConnect International; Fidel Jaramillo, Director of Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo in Peru; Michael J. Fitzpatrick, U.S. Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission; and Jose Luis Silva, Peruvian minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism.

    At LIF Week – Lima Fashion Week 2013, the 2nd Annual WEConnect International Forum in Peru was developed to promote Peruvian woman business owners.

More News From the Embassy

  • Statement by the Press Secretary on the Visit of President Ollanta Humala of Peru
    Statement by the Press Secretary on the Visit of President Ollanta Humala of Peru

    President Obama will host President Ollanta Humala of Peru at the White House on Tuesday, June 11. The President looks forward to following up on U.S. efforts to support the Humala Administration’s agenda of social inclusion, broad based economic growth, and citizen security. The two presidents will also discuss our joint work to advance negotiations toward completion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, as well as cooperation on education, energy and climate change, science and technology, and the bilateral trade relationship. 

  • Statement by President Obama on the Explosions in Boston
    Statement by President Obama on the Explosions in Boston

     

  • DCM Michael J. Fitzpatrick inaugurated an Emergency Center in Chiclayo
    DCM Michael J. Fitzpatrick inaugurated an Emergency Center in Chiclayo

    (Mar. 14) Deputy Chief of Mission Michael J. Fitzpatrick, regional president of Lambayeque Eng. Humberto Acuña Peralta, Chief of Civil Defense Institute, Gen. Alfredo Murgueytío Espinoza and local authorities inaugurated the new complex. USGOV financed the construction of this new complex worthed US$ 1,200,000, as part of the US Southern Command program on humanitarian assistance. 

  • DCM Michael J. Fitzpatrick visited the program ¨Fun Vacations¨ related to the Community Libraries Program
    DCM Michael J. Fitzpatrick visited the program ¨Fun Vacations¨ related to the Community Libraries Program

     

  • U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Scalia visited Peru March 6-11 to participate in a workshop entitled “Frontiers of Justice” hosted by the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (UPC).
    U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Scalia visited Peru March 6-11 to participate in a workshop entitled “Frontiers of Justice” hosted by the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (UPC).

    (Mar. 7) Justice Scalia with the members of the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (UPC) law faculty, the President of the Judicial Branch Enrique Mendoza, former Foreign Minister Francisco Tudela, and Public Defender Eduardo Vega. They served together on a panel at the UPC Workshop. Justice Scalia also traveled to Arequipa to speak to the Arequipa Bar Association on the interpretation of legal texts. Ambassador Likins and Justice Scalia called on the President of the Supreme Court and head of the Judicial Branch Enrique Mendoza; Mendoza laid out his agenda to improve the efficiency of Peru’s judiciary and reiterated his interest in working with the U.S. Justice Scalia noted U.S. support for Peru’s judiciary through State INL and USAID projects. 

  • (Mar. 8) Ambassador Rose M. Likins with the Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, José Luis Silva Martinot, the Major of Machu Picchu, Elvis La Torre and other peruvian authorities.
    Ambassador Rose M. Likins visited Machu Picchu

     

  • Presidential Proclamation on Women's History Month 2013
    Presidential Proclamation on Women's History Month 2013

     

  • U.S. Embassy Delivers Equipment Worth 106,000 Soles to the Peruvian National Police - Antidrug Directorate's Money Laundering Division
    U.S. Embassy Delivers Equipment Worth 106,000 Soles to the Peruvian National Police - Antidrug Directorate's Money Laundering Division

    (Feb. 8) U.S. Embassy Narcotics Affairs Section head Jeffrey Hovenier delivered the equipment to the Director of DIRANDRO, general PNP Vicente Romero 

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