Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
2003
The country's Truth & Reconciliation Commission releases its final report on Peru's
Internal Conflict: estimates of the dead reach 70,000.
2005
Construction of the Interoceanic Hwy, which opens an overland trade route between
Peru and Brazil, begins in the southern Amazon Basin.
2006
Alan García is elected to a second, nonconsecutive term as president after a run-off
contest.
2009
Fujimori is convicted of embezzling; this is in addition to prior convictions for author-
izing an illegal search and ordering military death squads to carry out extrajudicial
killings.
2011
Populist former army officer Ollanta Humala assumes the Presidency after winning a
tight run-off election against Fujimori's daughter Keiko.
