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".

Alberto Fujimori, Peru’s controversial former president, buried after 3 days of national mourning Gutiérrez, who himself was never disciplined, told reporters in 2015 that liberation theology as a ...

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

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori left office in 2000 when he became ... He memorably faxed in his resignation, but was arrested years later in Chile and sent back to Peru for trial. Fujimori ...

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 ...

A Peruvian court on Monday sentenced former president Alejandro Toledo to more than 20 years in prison for accepting ...

Alberto Fujimori, who led Peru from 1990 to 2000, left office when he became engulfed in a major corruption scandal and went into self-imposed exile in Japan. He memorably faxed in his resignation ...

Alejandro Toledo, once close to the U.S., was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of taking a $20 million ...