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Peru national soccer team named for Copa America Centenario

The Peruvian Soccer Federation (FPF) has named the official national selection for the centennial Copa…

  • Lima

Peru deploys police from interior to battle Lima crime wave

Peru’s interior ministry has reassigned 1,770 police officers from throughout the country to patrol the…

  • News

Peru: Report links Fujimori’s party leader to drug trafficking

Popular Force chairman Joaquin Ramirez is the subject of a DEA investigation which has the…

  • News

Peru’s Keiko Fujimori not being investigated: DEA

The United States Drug Enforcement Agency clarified on Monday that it is not investigating Peru’s…

  • News

Two bus accidents leave 19 dead in northern Peru

Two accidents less than 24 hours part left 19 dead and dozens injured in Peru’s…

  • News

Peru police official arrested with 119 kilos of cocaine

Peru police arrested Nuevo Chimbote police chief Freddy Tuesta in the northern state of Ancash…

  • News

Peru: DEA investigating Fujimori adviser for money laundering

UPDATE: The DEA released a statement in the wake of the Univision report saying that…

  • News

Peru’s presidential race in dead heat three weeks from vote

A recent poll showed presidential candidates Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski deadlocked just three…

  • Culture

Peru’s hottest rock ‘n’ roll bands 50 years ago today

In the mid-60's -- inspired by rock 'n' roll and rhythm 'n' blues from the US and…

  • News

Peru’s Kuczynski attacks Fujimori on anti-mining ‘terrorists’

Peru presidential candidate Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has gone on the attack against frontrunner Keiko Fujimori…

  • News

New criminal allegations against Catholic society in Peru

Former members of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV) Catholic society have formally accused founder Luis…

  • Lite

Peru woman to request pardon for assaulting police

Silvana Buscaglia will seek a presidential pardon for assaulting a police officer outside the Lima…

  • Economy

Ruling signals MSCI likely to keep Peru as ‘emerging market’

Index-fund provider MSCI has kept the Southern Copper stock in the Peru universe, a move…

  • News

Group kidnappings an enduring negotiation tactic in Peru

The recent kidnapping of seven oil workers by an indigenous tribe in Peru’s Amazon highlights…

  • Business

Mining protests flare up during Peru’s election season

Thousands of protesters marched in Peru’s southern states of Puno and Arequipa following developments on…