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09:21 | Lima, Jun. 12.
Andina news agency celebrates the 40th anniversary of its establishment, aimed at providing a State information platform prepared for journalistic challenges especially at hard times, such as the current one characterized by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The agency was founded on June 12, 1981, under the name of Agencia Peruana de Noticias y Publicidad S.A. (ANDINA) during the second term of former President Fernando Belaunde Terry.
Andina is the result of the merger of State-run ESI-Peru (Agencia Estatal de Noticias Nacionales) and Publi-Peru (Agencia de Publicidad del Estado).
The former company was liquidated in 1994, and since then Agencia Peruana de Noticias Andina (Andina news agency) joined Editora Peru, which also publishes the Official Gazette El Peruano.