Peru s one-house Congress Friday chose Rep. Silvia Monteza Facho of the Cajamarca constituency to replace Digna Calle as Second Vice President, following the latter s decision to leave her post after numerous failures on the part of Parliament to agree on a date to which to move the general elections forward, which is one of the demands of the protests since the Dec. 7 impeachment of Pedro Castillo Terrones. Monteza, of Acción Popular, is to take over from Calle, of Podemos Peru.
Lima, Jan 3 (EFE).- Civil organizations linked to religious groups, retired military and police, as well as conservative politicians, participated Tuesday in a peace march through downtown Lima and several Peruvian cities to reject the violence of the protests in December in which 28 people died. Carrying a huge red and white flag, hundreds of …