The Philippine Embassy in Santiago conducted a Consular Mission to Lima, Peru to render consular services such as passport processing and voter’s registration to Filipinos living in Peru and to visit Filipino prisoners. 

The team was composed of Charge d’Affaires, a.i. and Consul General Marcos A.S. Punsalang, Ms. Ferlina Camento and Ms. Jeany Macadangdang.

On 25 March 2017, CDA Marcos A.S. Punsalang together with Ms. Livi Varas, the Consulate’s Executive Assistant, visited and distributed some needed items to the seven (7) Filipinos currently detained in Sta. Monica Women’s Prison and in Sarita, Colonia Men’s Prison.  Services on passport processing, voter’s registration and assistance to nationals were held the on 24-25 March 2017 at the premises of the Philippine Consulate General located in Miraflores, Lima. 

The event was also an opportunity for the Philippine Embassy and the Filipino Community in Peru to present a plaque of appreciation to the Philippine Honorary Consul General Raul Diez Canseco, who ends his duty on 31 March 2017, for serving the Philippine government and the Filipinos in Peru for eleven years.  END