A leftist governor says he has agreed to become the Peru’s prime minister, a day after the nation’s Cabinet resigned amid a brewing oil kickbacks scandal.

Shining Path rebels ambushed a column of military trucks in Peru’s southeastern mountains with a bomb and gunfire, the military high command said Friday, killing...

Shining Path rebels ambushed a column of military trucks in Peru’s southeastern mountains with a bomb and gunfire, the military high command said Friday, killing...

Peru’s military command says a bomb has killed 12 soldiers and seven civilians in the country’s southeastern mountains, and that the Shining Path is likely...

Although now, so we see in this government and what we saw in the case of Fujimori, it would seem that there is no relationship between the ethical and political...

By the gravity of the contents of the telephone recordings made public, it has overlooked the illegal method for having agreed to these audios through the interception...

American activist Lori Berenson was pulled off a bus in Peru in November of 1995, detained by anti-terrorist police, and tried for treason against the Peruvian state by...

THIS WOULD IF THEY WERE PRESIDENT OF PERU (III) We should continue with the theme of economic model to implement (as I mentioned it would be a social market economy, as...

THIS WOULD MAKE IF PRESIDENT OF PERU (I) If elected, God willing, President of Peru, clear to me that would do the following: 1. Will propose to Congress the...

Hundreds of people — cashiered military commanders, ex presidents, police officers, among many others — have been tried in Latin America in recent years for...

The leader of Peru’s notorious Shining Path leftist rebels rejected an ultimatum to surrender and demanded to negotiate a political accord with the Peruvian...

An investigation into a scrap metal theft led to the discovery of more than 200 animals at a home, including chinchillas, peacocks, alligators and two baboons living in...

New York native Lori Berenson, who is serving a 20-year sentence in Peru for collaborating with leftist guerrillas in the 1990s, is four weeks pregnant, her father...

Archaeologists in Peru say they have discovered the jawbone of a fetus among the remains of a sacrificed woman in a pre-Inca tomb, suggesting the Lambayeque culture...

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Sunday he will tap his huge political network of donors and volunteers to help U.S. victims of Hurricane Gustav after...

A strong earthquake has shaken central Peru, causing people to flee buildings in the jungle city of Pucallpa but inflicting no major damage.

Peru’s government says renewable energy company Iberoperuana Inversiones SAC is developing a $240 million, 240 megawatt wind farm on Peru’s southern coast.

Peru’s government wants to know if 17 tons of silver coins recovered from a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean last year were made there, complicating the legal...

Peru’s government declared a state of emergency Monday in remote jungle regions where Indian groups are blocking highways and oil and gas installations to protest...