Dan Collyns covers the Andean region for CGTN America.
Collyns joined CGTN America in November of 2011 and is based in Lima, Peru. He has also reported for CGTN from Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile.
Collyns was formerly the BBC’s correspondent in Peru where he has been based since 2006. He also worked for AFP as a video-journalist, The Guardian newspaper and for PRI, NPR and CBC among other networks. Dan has covered earthquakes, mine cave-ins, summits, elections, the drug war, human rights trials and he interviewed the last fugitive leader of Peru’s Shining Path guerrilla group.
Before moving to South America, Dan worked at BBC World Service radio as a writer and producer. He began his career in print, filing newspaper reports from Tanzania.
He studied English Literature at Goldsmiths College at the University of London.
Pedro Castillo, Peru’s new president, pledged on Wednesday to bring economic stability to his country. He was sworn in after rising from obscurity to narrowly beat a right-wing rival, the daughter of a jailed former president. CGTN’s Dan Collyns reports. Read More...
Pedro Castillo, a socialist and the son of peasant farmers, is Peru's new president after rising from obscurity to narrowly beat a right-wing rival, the daughter of a jailed former president.
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It’s official. Peru’s next president will be Pedro Castillo, a leftist political outsider who’s never before held office. Election officials certified his victory late Monday, more than six weeks after voters cast their ballots. Read More...
Peru’s leftist presidential candidate Pedro Castillo has claimed victory this week, after holding the narrowest of leads following a lengthy vote count. But Castillo has not been declared the official winner yet. CGTN’s Dan Collyns reports on this week’s events in Lima. Read More...
The leftist presidential candidate Pedro Castillo has narrowly overtaken his right-wing rival Keiko Fujimori in the country’s presidential vote count following this past weekend’s runoff election. Final results are still not announced. Read More...
Peruvians are voting for a new president on Sunday. They must choose between two starkly different candidates from opposite ends of the political spectrum. Read More...
Peruvians will go to the polls Sunday to elect their fifth president in five years but whoever wins, the country’s ongoing political crisis is unlikely to end. Polls show the two candidates, leftist Pedro Castillo and, on the right, Keiko Fujimori, are technically tied. Read More...
In the last week before the presidential elections in Peru, candidates Keiko Fujimori on the right and leftist Pedro Castillo went head to head in a final debate before the vote. CGTN’s Dan Collyns reports from Lima. Read More...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Peru has left in its path one of the world’s highest mortality rates. The top two candidates in next month’s presidential runoff have their own separate plans to turn the economy around. Find more. Read More...
Peru’s government has blamed Shining Path rebels for the massacre of 16 people last weekend in a remote region of the country known for cocaine production. CGTN’s Dan Collyns reports. Read More...
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