Peru

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

3:39am October 22, 2024

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.

Indigenous Peruvian young leaders watch drone takeoff

Environment

Drone training in the Piedmont inspires Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon

4:00pm September 10, 2024

by David Ford

A group of nine Indigenous Peruvian young leaders are spending four days learning new technologies to help monitor and protect their Indigenous lands from illegal miners, loggers and narco-traffickers.

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

8:50pm August 15, 2024

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.

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

3:47am July 10, 2024

by The Associated Press

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.

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.

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

5:00am April 02, 2024

by Simeon Tegel

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.

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.

World News

Government agents raid Peruvian President Boluarte's residence

1:28am March 31, 2024

by The Associated Press

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.

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.

Health & Safety

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

5:17pm March 19, 2024

by Laurel Dalrymple

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.

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.

World News

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

1:27pm December 07, 2023

by Simeon Tegel

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.

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Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori, 85, center, is driven out of prison by his children Keiko, center right, and Kenji, center left, after being released from prison in Callao, Peru, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023.

World News

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori freed from prison on humanitarian grounds

8:52pm December 06, 2023

by The Associated Press

Fujimori, 85, was serving a 25-year sentence in connection with the slayings of 25 Peruvians by death squads in the 1990s.

Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori listens to a question during his testimony in a courtroom at a military base in Callao, Peru, March 15, 2018.

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Peruvian constitutional court orders release of former President Alberto Fujimori

11:33pm December 05, 2023

by The Associated Press

The court ruled in favor of a 2017 pardon that had granted the 85-year-old former leader a release on humanitarian grounds but that later was annulled.