Overview
- Following Monday’s combative first debate run by Peru’s electoral authority, experts said candidates offered few concrete plans on security or corruption and leaned on jabs over policy.
- The second session proceeded without Vladimir Cerrón, who missed the event because he has a preventive detention order and is on the run, according to judicial authorities.
- Peru’s cabinet presented Integrated Task Forces to patrol 27 high‑crime districts using 200‑member units that combine national police, the armed forces and local patrols, backed by an initial outlay topping seven million soles.
- Prosecutors opened an urgent probe into the cafeteria concession at Chiclayo’s Almanzor Aguinaga hospital and seized records with anti‑corruption police support to investigate alleged collusion or incompatible negotiation.
- In Spain, the Málaga high‑speed AVE reopening was delayed again to at least late April, and Transport Minister Óscar Puente invited the city’s mayor to inspect the repair site after complaints over shifting timelines.