The Latest Breaking News from Peru

Peru's foreign minister, Miguel Rodriguez, has resigned after just one month in office, the country's foreign ministry said on Friday, after public clashes between the official and leftist president Pedro Castillo.

Peruvian lawmakers on Monday ousted Lady Camones, the head of Congress, just a day after the country's prime minister publicly demanded her removal over leaked audio that showed her discussing how to use the legislature to benefit her party.

President Pedro Castillo’s surprise election brought hopes for change in Peru’s unstable and corrupt political system, but the impoverished rural teacher and political neophyte has found himself so engulfed in impeachment votes and corruption allegations that his presidency has become an exercise in political survival

Despite a slow decline in cases globally, monkeypox cases continue to rise rapidly in Latin America

Prosecutors in Peru have opened an investigation into the death of a Peruvian transgender man who died this month after being detained on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali

Peruvian prosecutors have opened an investigation for alleged torture over the death in Indonesia last month of a trans Peruvian man who died while in custody in the tourist island of Bali, the country's public ministry said on Thursday.

Ana Ventosilla told the Harvard Crimson that Indonesian police asked for $200,000 for the release of her son

LGBTQ rights activists in Peru have rallied outside the prosecutor’s office to demand an autopsy be performed on a Peruvian transgender man who died earlier this month after being detained on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali

The United States will return to Peru about $686,000 seized from a former president of the country who had received bribes from the Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.

About 6.8 million Venezuelans have left their homeland since economic crisis took hold in earnest for the country of some 28 million people

In the film of Sinclair’s book, the writer ends up rerouting the story of his great-grandfather’s expedition to the Amazon to its own psychogeographic musings