On Wednesday, October 23, a mass strike took place against the government of President Dina Boluarte and the Peruvian ...

Those fearing an impending dictatorship underestimate the robustness of our institutions and overstate the power of any ...

Peru’s forced sterilisation policy could constitute a crime against humanity, a United Nations committee has said. More than ...

A UN committee urged Peru Wednesday to compensate women who were forcibly sterilised in the 1990s, ruling that the state policy could constitute a "crime against humanity".

Lula had already been forced to cancel a trip to Russia for a summit of the BRICS group of major emerging markets.

Alberto Fujimori, Peru’s controversial former president, buried after 3 days of national mourning Peru declares 3 days of national mourning for former President Alberto Fujimori Gutiérrez, who himself ...

In a country riven by deep political, social, and geographic divisions, there are few subjects on which all Peruvians can ...

Over the past 20 years, macroeconomic stability, trade openness, and a favorable international environment have enabled Peru to become an upper-middle-income economy. GDP per capita jumped from ...

The late Alberto Fujimori, who governed from 1990 to 2000 ... Toledo is the first former president to be sentenced in this chapter of Peru’s Odebrecht investigation. Two other former presidents ...

Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori (1990–2000) opened up his country’s Amazon to small-, medium-, and large-scale agriculture and promoted foreign investment in the area. Shortly after, Peru ...

Peru's former President Alejandro Toledo on Monday was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a case involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, which became synonymous with ...