La Victoria is one of the forty-three districts that make up the province of Lima,located in Peru. It borders to the north and northeast with the district of Lima,to the east with the district of San Luis,to the southeast with the district of San Borja,to the south with the district of San Isidro,and to the west with the district of Lince and again with the Lima district. La Victoria is a historical and very busy public district located in downtown Lima. The current mayor of La Victoria is Rubén Dioscorides Andrés Cano Altez.
Carlos Ricardo Bruce Montes de Oca is a Peruvian politician and a former Congressman,representing Lima from 2006 until 2019,when his term ended with the dissolution of the Congress by Martín Vizcarra in 2019.
Yonhy Lescano Ancieta is a Peruvian lawyer and politician belonging to the Popular Action party. He was a Congressman between 2001 until the dissolution of the Congress by Martín Vizcarra in 2019. From 2009 to 2011,he served as the Popular Action party's national secretary-general. He was the Popular Action's presidential nominee in the 2021 general election and placed fifth in an atomized race of 18 nominees.
George Patrick Forsyth Sommer is a Peruvian politician and former international footballer.
Peru at the Pan American Games. The Peruvians had participated in all editions of the games,except in 1955 in Mexico City. They have won a total of 19 gold medals,40 silver and 90 bronze and 149 overall counting the 2019 Panamerican Games in Lima.
Graña y Montero is a company based in Latin America. It originated as a real estate and construction company,now the oldest and largest in Peru. Its many business interests include the construction of buildings and infrastructure,the energy and mining industries,and sanitation and highway services. In November 2020 changed its name to AENZA.
Metropolitano is a bus rapid transit system serving the city of Lima,Peru. Its construction began in the year 2006.
Municipal and regional elections were held in Peru on 7 October 2018. In the election,Peruvians voted for governors,vice governors and regional councilors at a regional level while at a municipal level,citizens voted for mayors and municipal councilors. Those elected took office 1 January 2019 and serve their term until 31 December 2022.
Since 2016,Peru has been plagued with political instability and a growing crisis,initially between the President,Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Congress,led de facto by Keiko Fujimori. The crisis emerged in late 2016 and early 2017 as the polarization of Peruvian politics increased,as well as a growing schism between the executive and legislative branches of government. Fujimori and her Fujimorist supporters would use their control of Congress to obstruct the executive branch of successive governments,resulting with a period of political instability in Peru.
Vicente Antonio Zeballos Salinas is a Peruvian politician who served as Prime Minister of Peru from September 2019 to July 2020,under President Martín Vizcarra's administration. Prior,he served as Minister of Justice and Human Rights.
Manuel Arturo Merino de Lama is a Peruvian politician who briefly served as President of Peru for six days between 10 and 15 November 2020. He also served as the President of Congress from 16 March 2020 to 15 November 2020. He was a Member of Congress (AP) representing the Tumbes constituency for the 2001–2006,2011–2016,and 2020–2021 terms.
Jorge Vicente Martín Muñoz Wells is a Peruvian lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Lima from January 2019 until his removal from office by the National Jury of Elections in April 2022. He previously served as mayor of Miraflores from 2011 to 2018.
Daniel Belizario Urresti Elera is a Peruvian retired army general and politician who served as Minister of the Interior in the administration of President Ollanta Humala from 2014 to 2015,and as a Congressman representing Lima from 2020 to 2021. He is currently serving a sentence of twelve years in prison for the murder of journalist Hugo Bustíos.
The 2020 Peruvian protests were a series of demonstrations sparked after the removal of President Martín Vizcarra that took place from 9 November to 17 November 2020.
Mesías Antonio Guevara Amasifuén is a Peruvian politician and engineer. A former member of the Popular Action party,he served as the party's president from 2014 to 2023. He was previously a Congressman,representing Cajamarca between 2011 and 2016 and served as governor of Cajamarca from 2019 to 2022.
Hernando Guerra-García Campos,better known as Nano Guerra,was a Peruvian politician,businessman,and television presenter. He served as a congressman representing Lima for Fuerza Popular from 27 July 2021,until his death in office.
The presidency of Pedro Castillo began with his inauguration as the president of Peru on 28 July 2021,the Peruvian Independence Day. In the 2021 Peruvian general election,Castillo,a school teacher and union organizer,won the presidential election against the right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori of Popular Force by a 45,000 margin in the runoff. In the congressional elections,Castillo's party,Free Peru,did not get a majority in the Congress of the Republic of Peru.
The 2022 Lima municipal election were held on 2 October 2022,following the convening of regional and municipal elections throughout Peru. Lima residents voted on a list of 40 candidates to replace incumbent Miguel Romero Sotelo whose term ended on 31 December 2022,alongside 39 metropolitan councilpeople. Rafael López Aliaga,leader of Popular Renewal,would be elected mayor of the Lima municipality.
Mass protests in Peru against inflation and President Pedro Castillo's government began in March 2022. The protests occurred amid rising fertilizer and fuel prices caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and international sanctions imposed on Russia. Some of the larger protests were organized by Geovani Rafael Diez Villegas,the leader of the Union of Multimodal Transport Guilds of Peru (UGTRANM) who had previously collaborated in late 2021 with business executives and right-wing politicians,opposing the Castillo government and whose power is recognized as rivaling the government's own Ministry of Transport and Communications. Diez Villegas demanded the removal of passenger restrictions on buses,pardons for transportation workers who were charged with crimes,and negotiations for forgiving debt owed by transportation businessmen to the government. He later organized a general strike aimed at paralysing transportation in Peru beginning on 4 April 2022 that resulted in protests,product shortages,transportation stoppages and rioting.
The complementary corridors are a bus transit system that serves the metropolitan area of Lima and Callao. It is a network of bus systems that cover the main avenues of the metropolitan area.
