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SANTIAGO November 17, 2009 (Reuters) - Chile's President Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday condemned as haughty and offensive comments by Peru's leader Alan Garcia over a spy scandal that has stirred century-old tensions between the neighbors.

November 16, 2009 (Press TV) - Peruvian President Alan Garcia has criticized Chile for allegedly running undercover operations in Peru in order to undermine the country's sovereignty.

September 29, 2009 (Al Jazeera) - Alberto Fujimori, a former president of Peru, has pleaded guilty to authorising illegal wiretaps, embezzlement and bribes of businessmen, politicians and journalists.

June 16, 2009 (Al Jazeera) - The Peruvian prime minister has said he plans to resign in the coming weeks following the deaths of dozens of people in clashes between indigenous groups and police over land laws.

June 5, 2009 (Al Jazeera) - Up to 20 people are thought to have died in the Peruvian Amazon during clashes between police and indigenous Indians protesting against oil and gas exploration on ancestral lands.

May 15, 2009 (AFP) - Indigenous groups declared an "insurgency against the government" of President Alan Garcia Friday, escalating a tense five week old struggle with Lima over land, oil and mineral rights in Peru's Amazon rainforest.

LIMA April 7, 2009 (Reuters) - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was convicted of human rights crimes and sentenced to 25 years in prison on Tuesday, the first time a democratically elected Latin American president has been found guilty in his own country of such offenses.

WASHINGTON November 20, 2008 (AP)– The senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee Thursday called for a criminal investigation into whether the CIA lied to Congress and withheld information from the Justice Department during its inquiry into the 2001 shoot-down of an American missionary plane by the Peruvian air force with help from a CIA spotter plane.

May 23, 2008 (AP) - A new South American union was born Friday as leaders of the region's 12 nations set out to create a continental parliament.

December 6, 2007 (White House, George W. Bush) - I commend the Senate for approving the free trade agreement with Peru with strong bipartisan support.