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News Articles: Peru

Pedro Tolomeo Rojas, known as Monky, enters his studio en Lima on October 21, 2025. Monky was a pioneer in the making of the posters that publicize cumbia concerts and are now considered chicha art. These colorful posters still cover the grey city of Lima and other cities advertising upcoming concerts. Some say the florescent colors were inspired by the the clothing worn by the women in the indigenous communities.

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  • Photography

Perú: Chicha, el pulso eléctrico de la cumbia

Uno de los géneros más escuchados en las Américas, los fotógrafos Karla Gachet e Iván Kashinsky documentan la cumbia en Colombia, México, Ecuador, Perú, Argentina y Estados Unidos.

October 10, 2025
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  • Ivan Kashinsky
Pedro Tolomeo Rojas, known as Monky, enters his studio en Lima on October 21, 2025. Monky was a pioneer in the making of the posters that publicize cumbia concerts and are now considered chicha art. These colorful posters still cover the grey city of Lima and other cities advertising upcoming concerts. Some say the florescent colors were inspired by the the clothing worn by the women in the indigenous communities.

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  • Photography

Peru: Chicha, the electric pulse of cumbia

Photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia music in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and the United States.

October 10, 2025
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  • Ivan Kashinsky
Peru President Dina Ercilia Boluarte Zegarra addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025.

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  • Latin America

Peru's Congress removes President Boluarte as a crime wave grips the country

Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to swiftly remove Peru's first female president shortly after midnight, marking yet another leadership shake-up in a nation rocked by violence and political turmoil.

October 10, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
The tecnocumbia group Tierra Canela performs at the Mapogo Club, an LGBTQ bar in Quito, Ecuador, on Dec. 9, 2023. The female group, an icon of the movement, gained viral popularity across all Ecuadorian social classes with its songs and dance steps.

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  • Photography

A NPR visual series takes a look at the rhythm of cumbia

One of the most listened-to genres in the Americas, photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and the United States.

October 01, 2025
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  • NPR Staff
Unloading boats at the dock at Leticia, Colombia, where the Amazon river has slowly retreated.

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  • Latin America

Colombia's lone Amazon port faces drying river and rising tensions with Peru

Colombia's only Amazon port town could soon be cut off from the river that keeps it alive. As drought and a shifting river spark a tense border dispute with Peru, locals are scrambling to adapt—and politicians are raising flags, literally.

September 07, 2025
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  • John Otis
Parents drop off their children at the private San Vicente School in Lima, Peru, which was targeted for extortion, in April.

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  • World

In Peru, criminal gangs are targeting schools in poor neighborhoods for extortion

The president of one of Lima's largest parent-teacher associations says at least 1,000 schools in the Peruvian capital are being extorted and that most are caving into the demands of the gangs.

July 07, 2025
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  • John Otis
Saul Luciano Lliuya in front of Lake Palcacocha, located at 4,650 meters above sea level at the Huascaran National Park, in Huaraz, northeastern Peru, on May 23, 2022.

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  • Latin America

Peruvian farmer loses landmark climate case against German energy giant

A Peruvian farmer has lost a decade-long legal climate case against Germany energy giant RWE. Saúl Luciano Lliuya claimed the company's emissions had contributed to glacial melt threatening his Andean hometown.

May 28, 2025
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  • Simeon Tegel
Mario Vargas Llosa speaks at a news conference and presentation of his new book <em>Tiempos recios</em> (<em>Harsh Times</em>) in Madrid, Spain, in 2019.

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  • Arts & Life

Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian author, dies at age 89

A giant of Latin American culture, Vargas Llosa used powerful imagery and sometimes fantastical storytelling to explore issues of male violence, societal disruption and authoritarian politics.

April 14, 2025
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  • Willem Marx
Tourists walk in front of the Tuco glacier in Huascaran National Park during a tour called the "Route of climate change" in Huaraz, Peru, Aug. 12, 2016.

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  • Latin America

Peruvian farmer goes head to head with German energy giant in climate test case

A Peruvian farmer is going head to head with German energy giant in a climate law test case.

March 17, 2025
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  • Simeon Tegel
Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo attends a court session in Lima, Peru, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024.

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  • Latin America

Peru’s ex-president Toledo gets more than 20 years in prison in case linked to corruption scandal

Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a case involving construction giant Odebrecht that became synonymous with corruption in Latin America.

October 22, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
A customs agent wears a patch for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency on Oct. 27, 2017, at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

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  • National

U.S. arrests reputed Peruvian gang leader wanted for 23 killings in his home country

Gianfranco Torres-Navarro, the leader of "Los Killers" who is wanted for 23 killings in Peru, was arrested in Endicott, N.Y. He is being held at a detention facility pending an immigration hearing.

August 15, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Police carry a body that they identify as U.S. mountain climber Bill Stampfl on Huascaran mountain in Huaraz, Peru, on Friday. Peruvian authorities said they found the mummified body of Stampfl, who died 22 years ago along with two other American climbers after they were trapped in an avalanche while trying to climb Peru's highest peak.

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  • Latin America

The body of a climber buried by an avalanche 22 years ago in Peru is found in the ice

Police said they recovered Bill Stampfl's body from the mountain where he was buried by the avalanche in 2002, when the 58-year-old was climbing with two friends who were also killed.

July 10, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
A woman and her child stand in front of a landscape denuded by gold mining in the southern Peruvian jungle in the Madre de Dios region. This picture is from 2015. Today, there's an effort to plant saplings to revive the forest.

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  • Global Health

Gold mining reduced this Amazon rainforest to a moonscape. Now miners are restoring it

Illegal gold mining has ravaged the Peruvian Amazon, leaving behind pollution and denuded landscapes. A group of miners are working with a U.S. charity to restore the forest.

April 05, 2024
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  • Simeon Tegel
Police guard outside President Dina Boluarte's house during a raid ordered by the Attorney General's Office aimed at seizing luxury watches as part of a preliminary investigation into alleged illicit enrichment in Lima, Peru, Saturday, March 30, 2024.

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  • Latin America

Government agents raid Peruvian President Boluarte's residence

Peruvian president Dina Boluarte is being investigated for allegedly acquiring an undisclosed collection of luxury watches since becoming vice president in 2021, and then president in 2022.

March 31, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Azzam, 12, hugs a sheep, the only source of his family's livelihood in rural Damascus on Feb 21, 2022. Azzam and his family have experienced firsthand the harrowing impact of the conflict. In 2015, when Azzam was five years old, a shell fell on the building where he was sitting with his family.

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  • News

Can a picture make you happy? We asked photographers and here's what they sent us

For International Day of Happiness, photographers sent us pictures of a Syrian boy who finds joy caring for farm animals, Ukrainian girls on a trampoline, music lovers grooving to the blues and more.

March 20, 2024
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  • Laurel Dalrymple
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