Virginia "Vicky" Peláez Ocampo (born 1956 in Cuzco, Peru)[1] is a Peruvian journalist and columnist, currently for The Moscow News newspaper.

[4] In 1984, Peláez and her cameraman Percy Raborg were kidnapped by the Peruvian rebel group Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA).

[4] Her far-left writings[6] were critical of United States foreign policy and strongly supportive of Latin American leaders Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro.

[6] In June 2010, Peláez, along with her husband Mikhail Anatolyevich Vasenkov (Михаил Анатольевич Васенков, alias Juan Lazaro) and nine others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. Attorney General.

[5] On 8 July 2010, Peláez pleaded guilty to working in the United States as an unregistered foreign agent for Russia, and agreed to be deported and never return, in exchange for the U.S. dropping the more serious charge of money laundering and waiving any jail time.