Valentín Toribio Demetrio Agustin Paniagua Corazao (23 September 1936 – 16 October 2006) was a Peruvian lawyer and politician who briefly served as President of Peru from 2000 to 2001. Elected President of Congress on 16 November 2000, he ascended...
The surname Paniagua was first found in the mountainous regions of the ancient kingdom of Leon during the Middle Ages. The surname descends from Spanish and Portuguese ancestry and appears to be derived from a nickname. They were extremely kind and...
Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto (26 July 1938 – 11 September 2024) was a Peruvian politician, professor, agriculture engineer, and dictator who served as the president of Peru from 1990 to 2000. During Fujimori's tenure, the Peruvian Armed Forces...
The Civic Party OBRAS (Spanish: Partido Cívico OBRAS; lit. 'Works'), formerly known as the Independent Civic Movement OBRAS (Spanish: Movimiento Cívico Independiente OBRAS), is a Peruvian centre-left nationalist political party founded on 9 July...
Alejandro Celestino Toledo Manrique (Spanish: [aleˌxandɾo selesˌtino toˌledo manˈrike]; born 28 March 1946) is a Peruvian former politician who served as President of Peru, from 2001 to 2006. He gained international prominence after leading the...
The history of Peru between 1980 and 2000 corresponds to the period following the general elections that put an end to the twelve-year military dictatorship that ruled the country since 1968, with Fernando Belaúnde taking office in 1980. The...
General elections were held in Peru in on 9 April 2006 to elect the President, two Vice-Presidents, 120 members of Congress and five members of the Andean Parliament for the 2006–2011 period. As no presidential candidate received a majority of the...
The Centre Front (Spanish: Frente de Centro, FC), was a Peruvian political coalition formed by the parties Acción Popular (AP), Somos Perú (PDSP) and Coordinadora Nacional de Independientes (CNI) for the 2006 national election. Its leader and...
Popular Action (Spanish: Acción Popular, AP) is a conservative, populist, and reformist political party in Peru, founded by former Peruvian president Fernando Belaúnde.
Fernando Sergio Marcelo Marcos Belaúnde Terry (7 October 1912 – 4 June 2002) was a Peruvian politician who twice served as President of Peru (1963–1968 and 1980–1985). Deposed by a military coup in 1968, he was re-elected in 1980 after twelve years...
