Peru's impeached interim President Jose Jeri (C) gestures with his cabinet in the background as they walk out of the Government Palace in Lima on February 17, 2026. (AFP) Peru’s Congress on 17 ...

LIMA, Peru—Peru’s congress on Tuesday voted to oust the nation’s president, José Jerí, extending years of political upheaval in one of the world’s most important exporters of essential minerals. In a ...

Feb. 17 (UPI) --In recent weeks, Peru has found itself at the center of intensifying geopolitical attention. What appears at first glance to be infrastructure development and commercial expansion is ...

Fr Raymond Portelli, a missionary priest and medical doctor who has spent the past 32 years serving in Iquitos, Peru, is currently in Gozo for a short period of rest. His long-standing mission has ...

The Trump administration on Wednesday expressed concern that Peru risks ceding its sovereignty to the Chinese government after a Peruvian court restricted a local regulator’s oversight of a ...

Mongabay Latam flew over the basins of the Nanay and Napo rivers, in Peru’s Loreto region, and confirmed mining activity in this part of the Peruvian Amazon. Environmental prosecutors say that there ...

A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northern Peru late Saturday, which startled residents and prompted some to leave their homes as tremors were felt across the region, according to ...

Roldán Dunú Tumi Dësi and Nixia Rodríguez Macuyama getting acquainted with project software at the Biblioteca Amazónica in May 2022 Three years ago, a fire broke out at the Biblioteca Amazónica in ...

Photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia music in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and the United... This is part of a special series, Cumbia Across ...

This is part of a special series, Cumbia Across Latin America, a visual report across six countries developed over several years, covering the people, places and cultures that keep this music genre ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — As gold prices hover at record highs, a leading Catholic leader in Peru’s Amazon is urging countries that are destinations for the precious metal to help stem illegal mining ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — A South American trade bloc ruled Monday that Peru is failing to meet its commitments to curb illegal gold mining and mercury trafficking, siding with Indigenous groups who say ...