In one of his first acts as interim president of Peru, José Jerí has led raids on prisons holding gang leaders nationwide.

Former Peruvian Congress president Martha Chavez praised the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women as a global milestone and commended China's significant ...

Early Friday, October 10, Peru’s Congress removed President Dina Boluarte and replaced her with the head of Parliament, Jose ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvians woke up to their seventh president in less than a decade Friday, as 38-year-old José Jerí took ...

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

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

Peru's Congress has ousted President Dina Boluarte for "moral incapacity," plunging the country's fragile democracy into deeper uncertainty.

A Lima woman was sentenced to two years of community control for patient abuse Thursday afternoon. Tara Houts, 47, of Lima, will serve two years of community control, which will include random testing ...

Workers from the Doe Run Peru mine complex joined a growing group of farmworkers in blocking major highways throughout the Andean nation, ratcheting up pressure on newly appointed interim President ...

Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to swiftly remove Peru's first female president shortly after midnight, marking yet another ...

BOGOTA (Reuters) -Peruvian President Dina Boluarte's tenure was marked by turmoil from the moment she assumed power, but the ...