The Latest Breaking News from Peru

Residents in Kichwa Indigenous villages in Peru say they fell into poverty after the government turned their ancestral forest into a national park, severely restricted hunting and allowed the sale of forest carbon credits to oil companies

Peru's President Dina Boluarte promoted the country's defense chief to the prime minister's job as part of a shuffle of her 11-day-old Cabinet on Wednesday, a move that followed protests this month that have left roughly two dozen people dead.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday he would uphold diplomatic ties with Peru, a day after Lima announced that it was expelling the Mexican ambassador due his country's interference in Peru's domestic affairs.

The new findings add to the 190 previously discovered geoglyphs at the UNESCO World Heritage site. The discoveries are thought to date to between 100 B.C. and A.D. 300.

In a roller-coaster day for Mexico's ties with Peru, Mexico announced Tuesaday that it had granted asylum for the family of ousted Peruvian president Pedro Castillo

Peru's government on Tuesday declared the Mexican ambassador in Lima 'persona non grata' and gave the diplomat 72 hours to leave the country, said Peru's Foreign Minister.

A photo series showcases the women surfers in Lobitos, an isolated fishing village in northern Peru.

The head of Peru's electoral jury on Tuesday gave Congress the provisional green light to bring forward a general election to the end of 2023, amid deadly protests over the impeachment of former President Pedro Castillo.

Peru’s Congress is set Tuesday to consider a proposal to hold early elections, a key demand of protesters who are blocking highways and clashing with security forces around the country

Peru's newly installed President Dina Boluarte sent three ministers to Ica, one of the regions at the heart of recent protests on Monday, in an effort to placate public anger as families in nearby Ayacucho held funerals and mourned for the people killed in the unrest over the last fortnight.

Peru's foreign ministry Monday called Colombian President Gustavo Petro's recent and repeated statements about the political crisis in Peru an "unacceptable interference" in its domestic affairs.