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2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

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Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

Ollanta Humala Lieutenant colonel Ollanta Moisés Humala Tasso (; born 27 June 1962) is a Peruvian politician and former military officer who served as President of Peru from 2011 to 2016. Originally a socialist and left-wing nationalist, he is considered t ...

(until 28 July)

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning ...

(from 28 July) * First Vice President:

Marisol Espinoza Marisol Espinoza Cruz (born 30 July 1967) is a Peruvian politician who was the First Vice President of Peru during the Humala administration from 2011–2016. She has been a Congresswoman representing Piura between 2006 and 2019. Espinoza belo ...

(until 28 July)

Martín Vizcarra Martín Alberto Vizcarra Cornejo (; born 22 March 1963) is a Peruvian engineer and politician who served as President of Peru from 2018 to 2020. Vizcarra previously served as Governor of the Department of Moquegua (2011–2014), First Vice Pre ...

(from 28 July) * Second Vice President:

Omar Chehade Omar Karim Chehade Moya ( ar, عمر كريم شحادة مويا; Lima, 8 November 1970) is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. He worked as consultant lawyer in the Ad Hoc Anti-corruption Prosecution in judicial cases against former president A ...

(until 28 July)

Mercedes Aráoz Mercedes Rosalba Aráoz Fernández (born 5 August 1961) is a Peruvian economist, professor, and politician who served as Second Vice President of Peru from 2016 to 2020. At the beginning of her political career, she served as Minister of Fore ...

(from 28 July) *

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

: Pedro Cateriano (until 28 July)

Fernando Zavala Lombardi Fernando Martín Zavala Lombardi (; born February 16, 1971) is a Peruvian politician, who was the Prime Minister of Peru from 28 July 2016 to 17 September 2017. Previously he was the President of Backus and Johnston, a subsidiary of SABMiller. ...

(from 28 July)

Events

*10 April –

2016 Peruvian general election General elections were held in Peru on 10 April 2016 to determine the president, vice-presidents, composition of the Congress of the Republic of Peru and the Peruvian representatives of the Andean Parliament. In the race for the presidency, in ...

*28 July –

took over as president

Publications

Poetry

* Rossella Di Paolo: ''La silla en el mar'' (The chair in the sea).

Novel

Isabel Sabogal Isabel María Sabogal Dunin-Borkowski (Lima, October 14, 1958) is a Polish-Peruvian bilingual novelist, poet, translator of Polish literature into Spanish and astrologer. Biography Her parents were José Rodolfo Sabogal Wiesse (Peruvian, son of ...

: ''Un Universo dividido'' (A divided Universe).

Anthology

* Ricardo Silva Santisteban (anthologist): ''Antología general de la traducción en el Perú'' (General anthology of translation in Peru), volume VII.

Cinema

* ''

Extirpator of Idolatries ''Extirpator of Idolatries'' ( es, Extirpador de idolatrías) is a 2014 Peruvian thriller drama film written and directed by Manuel Siles, completed in 2014 and released commercially in Peru in 2016. Plot The police detective Waldo, of circum ...

'' by Manuel Siles. * ''

Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes) ''Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)'' ( es, Videofilia: y otros síndromes virales) is a 2015 Peruvian horror comedy-drama fantasy film directed by Juan Daniel F. Molero. It premiered during the 2015 edition of the International Film Fe ...

'' by Juan Daniel F. Molero.

Sport

*5-21 August –

Peru at the 2016 Summer Olympics Peru competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's official debut in 1936, Peruvian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games throughout the modern era. Peru ...

: 29 competitors in 11 sports

Deaths

*17 February –

Eduardo Chirinos Eduardo Alejandro Chirinos Arrieta (4 April 1960 – 17 February 2016) was a Peruvian professor of literature at the University of Montana, and a poet. He received the Premio Casa de América de Poesía Americana in 2001. Career Eduardo Chirino ...

, poet (b. 1960). *26 February –

Juan Conway McNabb Juan Conway McNabb (December 11, 1925 – February 26, 2016) was an American born bishop in the Catholic Church and served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Chulucanas in the Piura Region of Peru from 1988 to 2000. Biography John Conway McNa ...

, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1925). *6 March –

María Rostworowski María Rostworowski Tovar de Diez Canseco (8 August 1915 – 6 March 2016) was a Peruvian historian known for her extensive and detailed publications on Peruvian Ancient Cultures and the Inca Empire. Biography Rostworowski was born in the Barra ...

, historian (b. 1915).

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