Weekly Report - 16 April 2014 (WR-14-15)

PERU | Humala shores up economic ties with Canada. During his first official visit to Canada on 10 April, President Ollanta Humala told a group of Canadian businessmen in Toronto that his country is a “reliable” business partner as he urged Canadian businesses to continue investing in Peru. In recent years Canada has become Peru’s fourth largest export market thanks in large part to the significant amount of minerals that Canadian-owned mining companies operating in Peru ship back to their home country.