A new diplomatic row has erupted between Peru and Chile after a Peruvian court ordered the arrest of two Chilean military officers over alleged spying. The court...

A small grove of huarango, the storied Peruvian tree that can live over a millennium, rests like a mirage amid the sand dunes on this city’s edge. The tree has...

In his first year at San Marcos University, Hermenegildo Espejo barely spoke, and certainly not in class. His Spanish was rudimentary, his accent an embarrassment....

An unknown number of people were injured in an army helicopter crash in a remote area of the southeastern Peruvian province of Huancavelica due to heavy winds, a media...

Hundreds of people have demonstrated in Peru’s capital, Lima, as a legislative panel approved a bill proposing legalising abortion in some cases. The bill, which...

Police were amazed to find the drug surgically implanted in the bloated birds in Peru. Acting on a tip-off, officers stopped a Turismo Ejecutivo SRL bus outside the...

Teresita Lopez is in hiding. “Somewhere in the Amazon” is as much as she is willing to reveal about her current location now she has been placed on the...

Santiago Manuin is lucky to be alive. On June 5, the Awajun Indian leader was hit by at least four bullets when police broke up a protest by Indians over government...

Nine years ago, a discovery was made about a place called Caral in northern Peru that transformed the understanding of human history in the Americas. To get to Caral...

First, the police fire tear gas, then rubber bullets. As protesters flee, they move on to live rounds. One man, wearing only a pair of shorts, stops to raise his hands...

Faced with a simmering crisis over dozens of deaths in the quelling of indigenous protests last week, Peru’s Congress this week suspended the decrees that had set off...

The leader of Peru’s Amazon Indians will be flown to exile in Nicaragua after seeking asylum following violent demonstrations that killed scores of police and...

The South American country of Peru is in a state of emergency. For four days, National Police forces have engaged Amazonian Indians in the peasant town of Bagua Grande....

President Alan García struggled over the weekend to defuse a protest by Amazon indigenous groups that left more than 50 police and Indians dead. The demonstrations...

Hundreds of indigenous protesters were holding 38 police hostage early on Saturday in Peru’s Amazon jungle after fights between tribes and police killed up to 33...

“Peru, a mining country” is a government slogan which can be seen emblazoned on official buildings and heard repeatedly on state media broadcasts. It is...

Do you live in Europe? Are finances a bit tight? Have you cut back on Starbucks, eating out, exspensive manicures, and cancelled your satellite TV? Have you, like many...

The ruins of an entire city have been found in northern Peru, which could answer questions about what happened to the ancient Moche culture - best known for conducting...

It seems that the regional presidents still do not assume that Son with powers and authorities to decide powers in favor of their respective jurisdictions, and what to...

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...