Five years after Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued its report on two decades of political violence that left nearly  70,000 people dead, the nation is far from reconciled.
Supporters of jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori, who is now on trial for human rights violations, violently disrupted a ceremony Thursday commemorating the report’s 5-year anniversary, as a […]

Peru and Bolivia signed a defense cooperation agreement to “continue moving forward in an open and determined manner” Friday, one month after a diplomatic crisis led Peru to recall its ambassador in La Paz after Bolivian President Evo Morales alleged that Peru was opening its doors to establish a permanent United States military base.
The agreement […]

Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel lost out on more than 700 kilos of cocaine paste worth approximately $24 million after Peruvian drug enforcement police seized the illicit cargo as it was being prepared for shipment from Peru to Mexico’s busiest port in the Pacific coast city of Manzanillo.
The nighttime raid, conducted Aug. 27 in a store […]

Peruvian archaeologists have unearthed a well-preserved 1,300-year-old female mummy in the pre-Columbian Pucllana ruins, a partially excavated rectangular mud-brick compound that was once part of the Huari Empire.
So far 30 tombs have been excavated on the site, located in Lima’s posh Miraflores district. But this is the first one found that was spared by looters […]

A military booze party that led to the alleged rape of a 19-year-old recruit on Lima’s Hoyos Rubio military base has caught the attention of Peru’s Defense Minister, Congress and top military brass officials.
Defense Minister Antero Flores Aráoz, Women’s Affairs Minister Susana Pinilla Cisneros and the Commander-in-Chief of Peru’s Armed Forces, Edwin Donayre Gotzch, all […]

After months of silence and stalled talks, Peruvian delegates and officials from Yale University met Tuesday for a third round of negotiations at the Permanent Mission of Peru to the United Nations in New York to determine the future of thousands of archaeological artifacts taken from Machu Picchu by American historian Hiram Bingham nearly a […]

Congress ratified Friday a congressional committee’s motion to repeal two land Amazon jungle development laws decreed by President Alan García, two days lawmakers struck a deal with indigenous rights groups to lift protests that disrupted operations at drilling platforms and sections of an oil duct in northern Peru.
Congress’ action came over the objections of García, […]

Indigenous groups lifted their road blockades and suspended their strike against key energy sites Thursday, a day after a congressional committee voted to repeal two land development laws decreed by President Alan García.
García called the move a “grave historical mistake” and predicted that rolling back his decrees would condemn Peru’s rural and indigenous communities to […]

Peru’s ombudswoman has warned the government that its policies for reducing urban air pollution failing to curb air contamination levels in the capital, Lima, that are up to nine times higher than standards set by the World Health Organization, or WHO.
“Air pollution kills and makes people sick in a slow and silent but persistent manner,” […]

The former head coach of Peru’s national women’s volleyball team and his wife are under investigation for allegedly smuggling four minors into the United States by posing as their parents with fake passports and falsified birth certificates to obtain visas.
“The four minors left the country in an irregular manner,” said Police Col. Pedro Baylón in […]