Peru's Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde said that Peru is waiting for an answer from Chilean authorities regarding the recent espionage, whose evidences was sent to Santiago in a more than 300-page official report.

“I do hope that things will get more clear in the next days, and that we will have a satisfactory response from Chile that will allow us to continue in another fields of cooperation. I bet on that and I like to think that this is how things are going to be,” he said.

According to Transparency International’s 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), released in Berlin this week, Peru has 3.7 points in a ranking that ranges between 0 (highly corrupt) and 10 (least corrupt).

Peru ranks better than some of its neighbors, like Argentina (2.9) , Bolivia (2.7), and Ecuador (2.2), and has the same score as Brazil and Colombia.

Peruvian authorities say they have arrested four members of a gang that specialized in selling fat obtained from dead humans.

Officials are investigating the disappearance of at least 60 people who may have been killed by gang members in two mountainous states in central Peru, the nation's attorney general said in a release Wednesday.

The four suspects have been charged with murder.

Two of the suspects were arrested November 3 as they left a transport business with a plastic container with human fat in it.

Officials in President Alan García’s government said an air force officer had confessed to spying for Chile, escalating a diplomatic dispute between Peru and Chile. Javier Velásquez, chief of Mr. García’s cabinet, said Víctor Ariza, 45, a noncommissioned air force officer, had passed national security information to officials in Chile’s armed forces.

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