LatinNews Daily - 25 November 2024

Peru: On 15 November US President Joe Biden met with Peru’s President Dina Boluarte in Peru’s capital Lima at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Leaders’ Week, which Peru hosted. According to a readout of the meeting published by the White House, the two leaders discussed US-Peru cooperation in “security and counternarcotics, economic investment and trade, and space collaboration”. According to the same statement, Biden reiterated US commitment to support Peru’s counternarcotics capabilities through a US$65m security assistance package that includes the planned transfer of nine Black Hawk helicopters to Peru over the next five years. It also cites him as thanking Boluarte for Peru’s “close coordination on counternarcotics, including Peru’s decision to approve measures required to share radar information between the United States and Peru for the first time in a decade”. Biden also highlighted a donation by the US’ California Caltrain, a commuter rail line serving the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley in the US state of California, of more than 100 locomotives to Lima, to promote cleaner transportation. The two leaders also discussed expanded space cooperation, including through a US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) Sounding Rocket Memorandum of Understanding that Nasa Administrator Bill Nelson and Peruvian counterparts signed on 14 November.

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