Sources: Ministerio del Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo del Perú (MTPE) and Peru bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Late last night, Peru's Minister of Labour (Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo-MTPE), Daniel Maurate, issued a retraction on his earlier communique ruling-out the declaration of another one-off non-working public holiday in Peru on Monday, July 27, 2015, to link the annual July 28-29 "Fiestas Patrias" with the preceding weekend, by announcing that Monday, July 27, 2015, had been declared a one-off non-working public holiday in Peru. [full story]