Peru

Peru’s government has enacted legal changes imposing harsh penalties for stealing cellphones, including life in prison for the person who kills someone while robbing a mobile device.

Some archaeologists describe Peru’s capital as an onion with many layers of history, others consider it a box of surprises.

Ecuador’s location is increasingly putting it at the confluence of two global trades: bananas and cocaine.

Scientists reported Wednesday that the new species could challenge the blue whale’s title as the heaviest animal to live on Earth.

Archeologists have found a pre-Hispanic mummy surrounded by coca leaves on top of a hill in Peru’s capital next to the practice field of a professional soccer club.

Van der Sloot is the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway.

Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, arrived in the United States from Peru on Thursday to face charges that he attempted to extort money from the missing woman’s mother.

Peruvian authorities have previously reported finding cocaine in brick-shaped packages with various and strange symbols, but never with one of the flag of Nazi Germany.

Holloway, who lived in suburban Birmingham, Alabama, was 18 when she was last seen during a trip with classmates to Aruba.

Peruvian archaeologists discovered a mummy believed to be over a thousand years old with some of its skin and hair still intact at the archaeological complex of Cajamarquilla, near Lima.

At least 15 people are dead and hundreds more are injured after a powerful earthquake rocked Ecuador and Peru Saturday. As rescue efforts ramp up over there, a group in the DMV is coming together to raise funds to help the victims. News4’s Mauricio Casillas reports.

At least 15 people are dead and hundreds more are injured after a powerful earthquake rocked Ecuador and Peru Saturday. As rescue efforts ramp up over there, a group in the DMV is coming together to raise funds to help the victims.

A mummified corpse up to 800 years old was found in a delivery bag in Peru, authorities in the South American country have said.

Peru has indefinitely shut its iconic tourist site Machu Picchu in the latest sign that anti-government protests are increasingly engulfing the South American country.

People are pouring into Peru’s capital, many from remote Andean regions, for a protest against President Dina Boluarte and in support of her predecessor

Protests against Peruvian President Dina Boluarte’s government that have left 48 people dead since they began a month ago are spreading through the south of the Andean country

Authorities say a police officer on patrol was attacked and burned to death by protesters in the Peruvian region of Puno as the death toll from demonstrations in the wake of the dismissal of former President Pedro Castillo rose to 47.

Peru’s congress has tentatively endorsed a plan to hold early elections in 2024 in a bid to defuse a political crisis after lawmakers ousted President Pedro Castillo. The proposal was approved by a two-thirds majority of the legislature on Tuesday and would push up to April 2024 elections for president and congress originally scheduled for 2026. The plan — part...

Hundreds of people poured into the streets of a rural hamlet in Peru’s Andean highlands on Saturday to pay their final respects to a 23-year-old student killed

A Peruvian judge has ordered ousted President Pedro Castillo to remain in custody for 18 months, approving a request from authorities for time to build their rebellion case against him.