Republicans focusing attention on the Hispanic vote

Republicans are strategising to win more votes from the demographically critical US Hispanic group, without alienating the party's conservative base.

Fusion par excellence

Most Peruvian cuisine is centred on the native aji chilli pepper.

Peru laps up gastro boom

The South American nation is enjoying a gastronomic boom that is putting it on the A-list of global cuisine.

'New' indigenous tribe discovered in the Amazon

An indigenous tribe which has had no contact with the outside world has been located in Brazil's Amazon near the Peruvian border.

Peruvian doctors amputate wrong leg, then right one

Peruvian doctors amputated the healthy leg of an 86-year-old man, then amputated the other leg when they realised their mistake.

Court to review Fujimori's 25-year sentence

Peru's Supreme Court on Monday begins a three-day review of former president Alberto Fujimori's 25-year prison sentence for human rights violations.

Gang 'killed victims to extract their fat'

Peruvian police have arrested a gang which allegedly killed peasants, drained their bodies of fat and sold the liquid as an anti-wrinkle cosmetic.

Fujimori's wife blasts Lima ruling as 'witch trial'

The wife of Peru's former president Alberto Fujimori accused a Lima court on Wednesday of conducting a medieval-style "witch trial".

Peru farmer hospitalised with eight-day erection

A Peruvian farmer underwent an operation after complaining of severe pain from an eight-day erection, said a doctor at a hospital in Sullana.

Shining Path expands role in cocaine trade

The Shining Path rebel group, which led a bloody civil war in the 1980s, has expanded its foothold in Peru's cocaine trade to run lucrative drug labs.

Bush hounded till bitter end

US President George W Bush may be a lame duck, but protesters and aspiring US rivals are still dogging him with a passion on his last foreign trip.

Peru's leader accepts resignations of entire Cabinet

Peruvian President Alan Garcia accepted the resignations of his entire Cabinet on Friday in the face of a brewing corruption scandal.

Secret of the 'lost' tribe that wasn't

Amazing pictures showed a handful of warriors from an "undiscovered tribe" on the Brazilian-Peruvian border. Or so the story was told and sold.

Donkey jawbones, laptops mix up Peru's new music

As a Quechua Indian quintet plays a solemn Andean muleteer's march on harp, clarinet and violin, their notes spring up as wave forms on a computer screen in an ultra-modern recording studio. In a dark and smoky rehearsal room across town, a sound engineer tweaks a console, weaving electronic beats and bleeps between the thumps and slaps of a sweating conga player.

A victory for the little guy

It was by any measure a remarkable protest. More than 800 Achuar tribespeople from the borders of Peru and Ecuador, headed by their traditional leaders with their red and yellow feathered headdresses, arrived by the boatload in the twilight hours at four oil wells in the middle of the Amazonian rainforest.

Peru's 'death buses': The road to Russian roulette

The notorious "death buses" taking Peruvians and tourists up the Andean nation's snaky mountain roads have killed 68 people in road accidents so far this year. Travelling in Peru, whose Inca ruins attract tourists from around the world, has become the road version of Russian roulette as many buses are built out of old truck chassis.

Inca ruins cede to gastro-tourism in Peru

Throughout their history of poverty and political turmoil, Peruvians have been fiercely proud of their elaborate, spicy food and new superstar chefs are now a magnet for culinary tourists. Lima used to be no more than a one-night stopover for international tourists -- many of them backpackers and budget travellers.

'Cutting brains is like peeling potatoes'

Thousands of human brains float in jars of formaldehyde at a unique museum that gives visitors to Lima an up-close view of brain diseases, from trichinosis to stroke. More than 2 500 brains are on display in a modest museum in Lima sponsored by the National Institute of Neurological Sciences.

Rise of the giant guinea pigs

After 34 years of patient tinkering, researchers at Peru's most prestigious agrarian university have bred a new culinary export they hope will scamper on to dinner plates throughout the United States and the world: the super-size guinea pig. Peruvians consume an estimated 65-million guinea pigs each year.

Peru moves to free seized police station

The leader of a Peruvian paramilitary nationalist group that seized a police station, took 10 officers hostage and allegedly killed four more surrendered late on Monday as security forces launched an offensive against his followers, an Interior Ministry official said. Former army major Antauro Humala turned himself in to Peru's national police chief.

Passenger bus plunges off mountain road

A passenger bus careered off a mountain road in Peru and plunged into a jungle river, killing 49 people and injuring 15 others, police said. The accident occurred on Sunday in the Andean jungle, 346km north-east of the capital, officer Juan Siu Gomez said on Monday via telephone from Aguaytia, near the crash site.

Peru evacuates 1 500 tourists after landslides

Peruvian authorities on Sunday helicoptered hundreds of stranded tourists away from the famed Machu Picchu Inca ruins after flash floods in the region that left one confirmed dead and 10 missing. About 15 homes were destroyed by Saturday's avalanches, which killed one person in Aguas Calientes.

Shining Path guerrillas kill one soldier in jungle ambush

Shining Path rebels ambushed an army patrol in a remote mountainous jungle region on Wednesday, killing one soldier and wounding two others, army officials said.

Ex-president Fujimori back in Peru for trial

Disgraced former President Alberto Fujimori arrived in Peru for the first time in seven years under armed guard on Saturday -- a day after Chile's Supreme Court authorised his extradition -- to face charges of abusing human rights and stealing public money during his decade-long rule in the 1990s.

Peru quake seriously damaged tourist sites

Historic churches and colonial-era haciendas along Peru's southern coast suffered serious damage in last week's earthquake, which also halted boat trips to an offshore wildlife reserve. In a statement, Peru's Foreign Trade and Tourism Ministry lamented "significant damage" to old churches and other important tourist sites.

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