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News Articles: Peru

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
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori sits between his children Kenji (left) and Keiko upon his release from the Barbadillo prison in the eastern outskirts of Lima, on Wednesday.

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  • Latin America

Peru braces for protests after former President Fujimori's release from prison

The release from prison of the former authoritarian leader has triggered uproar in the Andean country. He had been serving a 25-year sentence for directing death squads against supposed subversives.

December 07, 2023
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  • Simeon Tegel
Boran Bumovich Hignio, a 7-year-old surfer, gets help with his wetsuit from Diego Villarán, who founded the local surf school, and other staffers.

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  • Global Health

For these Peruvian kids, surfing isn't just water play

A school in Peru is part of a wave of community-based projects around the world that uses a perhaps surprising method to help kids: surf therapy. And it's not just about physical well-being.

October 07, 2023
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  • Peter Yeung
The Huallamarca pyramid sits in Lima's upscale San Isidro neighborhood, surrounded by homes, embassies and high rises.

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  • World

In Peru, discovery of ancient ruins outpaces authorities' ability to care for them

"Everywhere you dig, you will find something — because Lima was home to great civilizations," says a museum director in the capital. "But it's impossible to save everything in a poor country."

July 29, 2023
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  • John Otis
Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, waits at the Barbadillo prison in Lima, Peru, on March 30, 2022.

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  • Latin America

All the prison's presidents: Peru's special jail for ex-leaders is all full up

In Peru, so many former leaders have been accused of crimes that the country has designated a small prison specifically to house them. It's a symbol of corruption, but also of political dysfunction.

July 09, 2023
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  • John Otis
Francisca Sosa sits by her father, one of the many Peruvians who've contracted dengue fever in this unprecedented outbreak.

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  • Global Health

Peru is reeling from record case counts of dengue fever. What's driving the outbreak?

The number of patients is soaring, the health system is stressed and the government is facing criticism over its response. So far 150,000 Peruvians have caught the virus this year and 248 have died.

June 23, 2023
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  • Simeon Tegel
Relatives of trapped miners wait outside the SERMIGOLD mine in Arequipa, Peru, Sunday, May 7, 2023. The Public Ministry confirmed the death of 27 miners, who were trapped early Saturday morning due to an explosion in a tunnel inside the artisanal mine located in Yanaquihua district in Arequipa.

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  • Latin America

Dozens are reported dead from a fire deep in a gold mine in Peru

The Yanaquihua mining company said 175 workers had been safely evacuated after the accident. It said the 27 dead worked for a contractor that specializes in mining.

May 08, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
An anti-government protester challenges police surrounding the San Marcos University in Lima, Peru, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023. Police evicted from the university grounds protesters who arrived from Andean regions seeking the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, the release from prison of ousted President Pedro Castillo and immediate elections.

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  • Latin America

Peru has closed off Machu Picchu due to growing anti-government protests

The Culture Ministry said it had closed the country's most famous tourist attraction as well as the Inca Trail leading up to the site "to protect the safety of tourists and the population in general."

January 22, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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