News of peru

Alberto Fujimori, emblem of '90s absolutism and corruption

12-09-2024 00:46 Late Peru leader was applauded for recovering Peru's lost economy, but his crimes – of which there are dozens – overshadowed his achievements.

by Darío Silva D'Andrea

PERU EX-PRESIDENT

Peru's deeply divisive former leader dead at 86

12-09-2024 00:26 Polarising ex-Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori has died aged 86 in the nation's capital Lima, family reports.

OBITUARY

Alberto Fujimori, authoritarian behind Peru rebound, dies at 86

11-09-2024 22:15 Former president of Peru oversaw the defeat of Maoist terrorists, tamed hyperinflation and continued to loom large over national politics after being imprisoned for his role in killings by death squads.

Foreign relations & diplomacy

Argentina joins 10 other nations in rejecting Maduro vote certification

23-08-2024 12:58 Argentina, along with the United States and nine Latin American countries, issues statement rejecting the Venezuela Supreme Court's certification of President Nicolás Maduro's July 28 re-election.

Copa América 2024

No Messi, no problem as Argentina down Peru

30-06-2024 09:20 Argentina shrugged off the injury absence of Lionel Messi to maintain their perfect start at the Copa América on Saturday with a 2-0 victory over Peru in Miami.

Football: Copa América

Messi, Di María ready for Copa clashes with Canada, Chile, Peru

18-06-2024 13:06 Canada, Chile and Peru – the challengers facing Argentina in Group A of the first stage of the Copa América.

MARKETS

Latin America’s quasi-sovereign companies attract bond investors

19-02-2024 14:09 State-owned companies across Latin America face falling output, cash woes and expensive investment plans. Yet bondholders can’t get enough.

CRIME & SECURITY

Peruvian woman accused of cutting off sleeping partner's penis

14-02-2024 12:47 Peruvian authorities said Tuesday they were investigating a woman accused of cutting off her partner's penis with a kitchen knife as he slept.

Drug war crisis

Relatives of Ecuador drug boss 'Fito' arrested and deported from Argentina

19-01-2024 12:40 Security forces arrest and detain relatives of fugitive drug-boss Jose Adolfo Macías, alias 'Fito,' in Córdoba; Wife and children deported in early hours of Friday morning.

Narco-violence terrorises Ecuador

Ecuador’s ‘armed conflict’ against drug cartels explodes into violence

11-01-2024 16:50 Tanks and soldiers patrol the streets of Ecuador as third day of terror continues; Cartels have ‘declared war’ against President Daniel Noboa and the national government.

International football

Albiceleste continue to impress, with or without Messi

19-10-2023 16:56 Shorn of the team's heart against Paraguay, Argentina reacted by recreating him across the pitch. Against Peru, on the other hand, the system was king, centred around Messi.

by Dan Edwards

WORLD CUP QUALIFERS

Messi double helps Argentina stay perfect in World Cup qualifiers

18-10-2023 08:27 Lionel Messi's first-half brace against Peru left reigning world champions Argentina on top of the South American qualifying table with 12 points from four games.

Dollarisation proposal

Peru’s Velarde says Argentines should be free to choose currency

06-10-2023 14:03 Julio Velarde, Latin America’s longest-serving central bank chief, says "people should choose what currency they want to keep their money in."

WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS

Messi back as 2026 World Cup qualifiers kick off

06-09-2023 09:47 Lionel Messi returns to international duty with Argentina this week as South America's long qualifying road to the 2026 World Cup kicks off on Thursday.

DRUG-TRAFFICKING

Bolivia says huge manhunt closing in on accused drug-lord

02-08-2023 12:59 Bolivian authorities conduct massive operation to capture alleged cocaine-trafficker Sebastián Enrique Marset Cabrera, wanted on drugs charges in several countries.

MUSIC

Argentine urban music conquers the world – Duki, Nicki Nicole, Bizarrap lead way

21-07-2023 15:31 Wave of Argentine musicians including Bizarrap, Duki, Emilia Mernes, Nicki Nicole and Wos are selling out shows and shining in the northern hemisphere.

Lithium in Latin America

Peru sees lithium mining opportunity in Chile’s statist plan

28-04-2023 11:14 Peru seeking a more active role in trying to lure lithium mining investments in light of Chile’s decision to take state control of all new projects of battery metal.

PERU IMMIGRATION

Peru deploys military to block undocumented migrants

27-04-2023 13:20 Peru's president decrees state of emergency at the country's borders and sends troops to reinforce checkpoints and block undocumented migrants making their way north from Chile.

ARCHAEOLOGY & SCIENCE

Pre-Inca, centuries-old teenage mummy unearthed in Peru

26-04-2023 11:57 Pre-Inca mummy, between 800 and 1,200 years old, was discovered in perfect condition in an ancient mud urban centre on the outskirts of Lima.

UNREST IN PERU

Peru ex-president extradited from United States, taken to prison

24-04-2023 10:54 Peru's former president Alejandro Toledo was jailed on Sunday, hours after arriving back in his homeland from the United States to face charges of money-laundering and corruption dating back to his mandate.

UNREST IN PERU

Peru jails ex-intelligence chief over 1988 journalist murder

13-04-2023 13:59 Court in Peru sentences country's former military intelligence chief to 12 years in prison over his role in the 1988 murder of journalist Hugo Bustios Saavedra.

UNREST IN PERU

Peru prosecutors probe President Boluarte over alleged money-laundering

29-03-2023 11:31 Peruvian prosecutors said late Tuesday they were investigating President Dina Boluarte for alleged money laundering and illegal campaign financing during the 2021 presidential election.

UNREST IN PERU

Peru judge extends ex-president Castillo's pre-trial detention to three years

10-03-2023 10:46 A Peruvian judge on Thursday extended former president of Peru Pedro Castillo's pre-trial detention to 36 months for "allegedly being the leader of a criminal organisation," the Supreme Court announced.

PERU UNREST

UN experts call for end to violence in Peru

06-03-2023 12:06 UN experts express concern about reports of repression, arbitrary killings, arrests and detentions in Peru and called on the country's authorities to create dialogue to end the crisis.

HALLUCINAGENIC VINE

Ayahuasca: 'source of knowledge' in the heart of the Amazon

01-03-2023 09:55 A tourist industry has taken root around ayahuasca, the powerful hallucinogenic concoction said to open the door to the spirit world. But indigenous healers are set against the commercialisation of the plant.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Protecting high seas off Chile's coast depends on UN vote in New York

20-02-2023 13:07 Urgently seeking to prevent biodiversity loss in the international waters off the coasts of Chile and Peru, Chile is pushing for a new marine protected area (MPA) to be created, and hoping to seal the deal during an upcoming summit at UN headquarters in New York.

Human rights

Amnesty presents 'evidence' of security forces abuses to Peru president

16-02-2023 14:57 Amnesty International presents evidence to Peru President Dina Boluarte that it says proves security forces used excessive and lethal force to suppress anti-government protests.

INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE

Amazonian Siekopai people battle for return to ancestral land

15-02-2023 11:09 Displaced by decades of war as well as commercial and cultural intrusions, the Siekopai people live scattered between villages straddling the Ecuador-Peru border, far from their ancestral territory, which they are fighting to reclaim.

Unrest in Peru

Peru investigating security force role in protest deaths

14-02-2023 13:41 Peruvian prosecutors investigating whether security forces were to blame for the deaths of several protesters during anti-government demonstrations in December.

Peru Unrest

Poverty, frustration and contempt: Lima's forgotten people in the Andes

03-02-2023 11:07 The riots that have left 48 people dead in Peru since last December are a reflection of the huge rift between the capital and the Andes, where most of the protesters who are demanding the resignation of the president and new elections reside.

Political tensions in Peru

Peru Congress again rejects snap election despite protests

02-02-2023 14:21 Peru's Congress on Wednesday voted down another bid to advance elections from April 2024 to this year, a move sought by President Dina Boluarte to calm unrest that has left dozens dead in seven weeks of anti-government protests.

Peru Elections

Peru's Congress delays session on moving up elections

31-01-2023 14:58 Peru's Congress postponed until Tuesday afternoon the session to vote on whether to move up general elections to this year, amid growing protests calling for the resignation of President Dina Boluarte.

Unrest in Peru

Experts: Peruvians place little trust in political class to solve crisis

30-01-2023 11:53 With a political class that is widely mistrusted and a Congress rejected by 88% of the population, Peruvians have grown increasingly disillusioned that a solution to weeks of violent unrest is upcoming.

Unrest in Peru

Peru president urges Congress to bring elections forward

30-01-2023 11:34 Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has made a renewed appeal for Congress to move elections from 2024 to October 2023 as a way to end weeks of deadly protests, warning that otherwise she will seek constitutional reform to make a vote happen.

Unrest in Peru

'We are not at war, we are united' – Indigenous Uro community joins Peru protests

26-01-2023 13:08 The Uros, inhabitants of the floating islands on Lake Titicaca, also raised their voices this week in Peru's protests calling for the resignation of President Dina Boluarte.

Protests in Peru

'Civil war now!' exclaim demonstators in Peru as tensions rise

24-01-2023 13:31 Hundreds of demonstrators marching in Lima called for the resignation of President Dina Boluarte; Massive protests that have already claimed the lives of 46 people set to continue, Interior Minister Vicente Romero warns.

Peru Protests

Clashes in Lima as thousands rally against Peru government

20-01-2023 11:08 Thousands marched through Peru's capital and southern provinces Thursday in large anti-government rallies punctuated by clashes with police, defying a state of emergency declared over almost 1/3 of the country.

Unrest in Peru

Peruvians defy state of emergency, mobilise for major new protest

16-01-2023 11:04 Government extends state of emergency for 30 days for Lima, Cusco, Callao and Puno, authorising the military to back up police actions as 3,000 protesters began boarding trucks and buses for demonstration in Lima.

Protests in Peru

Peru closes Machu Picchu airport as nationwide protests persist

13-01-2023 11:52 The airport in Cusco, gateway to Peru's tourism crown jewel, was closed indefinitely Thursday "as a preventative measure."

Peru Protests

Peru protesters mourn their dead as clashes continue

12-01-2023 14:30 Demonstrators in Peru blocked roads and held mass funerals for 41 people killed in more than a month of protests demanding the resignation of President Dina Boluarte.

FOREIGN POLICY

Peru political crisis threatens to widen Latin America rifts

15-12-2022 16:40 President Dina Boluarte's administration says it has received the backing of governments in Chile, Ecuador, Uruguay and Costa Rica, underlining split over Peru's political crisis in the region.

POLITICAL CRISIS IN PERU

Mexico, Argentina, Colombia slam Peru’s treatment of Castillo

14-12-2022 10:30 Mexico, Argentina and Colombia throw support behind Pedro Castillo, Peruvian leader impeached last week, adding a new twist to the crisis that has paralyzed swathes of the country and left several protesters dead.

POLITICAL CRISIS IN PERU

Seven dead as Peru's new leader fails to quell protests

13-12-2022 09:24 Five more protesters died in Peru as violent demonstrations over the ousting of former president Pedro Castillo continue; Demostrators are demanding fresh elections and the resignation of new President Dina Boluarte.

PROFILE

Dina Boluarte: Peru's first female president

08-12-2022 15:22 Dina Boluarte was virtually unknown on the Peruvian political scene a year and a half ago, when she rode into office in July 2021 as Pedro Castillo's vice-president.

POLITICAL CRISIS IN PERU

Peru's new president under pressure after predecessor's arrest

08-12-2022 15:14 Peru's Pedro Castillo was impeached and replaced as president by his deputy on Wednesday in a dizzying series of events in a country that has long been prone to political upheaval.

PERU

Peru president impeached despite bid to dissolve Congress

07-12-2022 17:02 Lawmakers defiantly gathered to debate and approve an impeachment motion, with 101 votes out of a total of 130 lawmakers, in a session broadcast live on television.

PERU

Peru's Castillo dissolves Congress, to name 'emergency' govt

07-12-2022 14:50 A new congress will be convened "as soon as possible," the embattled leader announced to Peruvians in a televised address.

PERU

Thousands march in Peru calling for president's removal

07-11-2022 13:34 Opponents of Castillo government march through Lima; Dozens of riot police use tear gas to prevent them from reaching Parliament and the government palace.

News of peru

Alberto Fujimori, emblem of '90s absolutism and corruption

Peru's deeply divisive former leader dead at 86

Alberto Fujimori, authoritarian behind Peru rebound, dies at 86

Argentina joins 10 other nations in rejecting Maduro vote certification

No Messi, no problem as Argentina down Peru

Messi, Di María ready for Copa clashes with Canada, Chile, Peru

Latin America’s quasi-sovereign companies attract bond investors

Peruvian woman accused of cutting off sleeping partner's penis

Relatives of Ecuador drug boss 'Fito' arrested and deported from Argentina

Ecuador’s ‘armed conflict’ against drug cartels explodes into violence

Albiceleste continue to impress, with or without Messi

Messi double helps Argentina stay perfect in World Cup qualifiers

Peru’s Velarde says Argentines should be free to choose currency

Messi back as 2026 World Cup qualifiers kick off

Bolivia says huge manhunt closing in on accused drug-lord

Argentine urban music conquers the world – Duki, Nicki Nicole, Bizarrap lead way

Peru sees lithium mining opportunity in Chile’s statist plan

Peru deploys military to block undocumented migrants

Pre-Inca, centuries-old teenage mummy unearthed in Peru

Peru ex-president extradited from United States, taken to prison

Peru jails ex-intelligence chief over 1988 journalist murder

Peru prosecutors probe President Boluarte over alleged money-laundering

Peru judge extends ex-president Castillo's pre-trial detention to three years

UN experts call for end to violence in Peru

Ayahuasca: 'source of knowledge' in the heart of the Amazon

Protecting high seas off Chile's coast depends on UN vote in New York

Amnesty presents 'evidence' of security forces abuses to Peru president

Amazonian Siekopai people battle for return to ancestral land

Peru investigating security force role in protest deaths

Poverty, frustration and contempt: Lima's forgotten people in the Andes

Peru Congress again rejects snap election despite protests

Peru's Congress delays session on moving up elections

Experts: Peruvians place little trust in political class to solve crisis

Peru president urges Congress to bring elections forward

'We are not at war, we are united' – Indigenous Uro community joins Peru protests

'Civil war now!' exclaim demonstators in Peru as tensions rise

Clashes in Lima as thousands rally against Peru government

Peruvians defy state of emergency, mobilise for major new protest

Peru closes Machu Picchu airport as nationwide protests persist

Peru protesters mourn their dead as clashes continue

Peru political crisis threatens to widen Latin America rifts

Mexico, Argentina, Colombia slam Peru’s treatment of Castillo

Seven dead as Peru's new leader fails to quell protests

Dina Boluarte: Peru's first female president

Peru's new president under pressure after predecessor's arrest

Peru president impeached despite bid to dissolve Congress

Peru's Castillo dissolves Congress, to name 'emergency' govt

Thousands march in Peru calling for president's removal

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