Seven right-wing governments have been defeated, while Brazil is set to join the wave of liberation next month
South Africans stuck abroad are told to be patient while the government is negotiating with different countries and working on ways to bring them back home
Two women who travelled to South America for a friend’s wedding were told by the South African government to wait until Peru’s state of emergency ends. Now they could be coming home
The 37-metre acrylic and concrete structure, which cost $800 000, is viewed by some as a symbol of corruption
Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have crossed the border into Brazil over the past three years as they seek to escape the crisis in their country
National broadcaster ABC said that "Australian football needs clarity, ambition, direction, rejuvenation".
Peru were already out before this game but they still had a huge travelling support, clad in the country’s distinctive white and red colours
A new book reveals how women in ancient Peru, far from being marginalised and invisible, were political and economic decision-makers
Food has been at the forefront of Lima’s cultural renaissance, which has given its people creative confidence.
The 13 adults and 26 children had been used as slaves in remote mountain communities.
A search for South America’s tuber that comes in a variety of colours and sizes leads to discovering in Lima a chef’s culinary playground.
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/ 30 September 2011
Most Peruvian cuisine is centred on the native aji chilli pepper.
The South American nation is enjoying a gastronomic boom that is putting it on the A-list of global cuisine.
An indigenous tribe which has had no contact with the outside world has been located in Brazil’s Amazon near the Peruvian border.
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/ 26 January 2010
Peruvian doctors amputated the healthy leg of an 86-year-old man, then amputated the other leg when they realised their mistake.
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/ 23 November 2009
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.
The wife of Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori accused a Lima court on Wednesday of conducting a medieval-style ”witch trial”.
A Peruvian farmer underwent an operation after complaining of severe pain from an eight-day erection, said a doctor at a hospital in Sullana.
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/ 13 December 2008
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.
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/ 21 November 2008
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.
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/ 11 October 2008
Peruvian President Alan Garcia accepted the resignations of his entire Cabinet on Friday in the face of a brewing corruption scandal.
Amazing pictures showed a handful of warriors from an ”undiscovered tribe” on the Brazilian-Peruvian border. Or so the story was told and sold.
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.
Rescue teams in Peru’s shattered earthquake zone headed home on Monday as search operations were replaced by stepped-up aid efforts and security patrols against looters. Wednesday’s powerful 8,0-magnitude temblor killed at least 503 people, and the final toll "could reach 540", civil defence officials said. About 1 600 people were injured.
Health authorities in Peru on Sunday battled the spread of infectious diseases in the wake of a devastating earthquake as President Alan Garcia threatened a curfew to stop looting. Aftershocks continued to keep people on edge. Peru’s geophysical institute reported more than 400 tremors following the quake.
Peruvians frustrated over slow emergency aid looted pharmacies and scuffled in food lines on Friday as rescuers picked through rubble for survivors two days after a massive earthquake killed at least 510 people. A powerful aftershock renewed panic on Friday and some people sprinted away from food lines in Pisco.
Peruvian rescue teams scrambled on Friday to find survivors in the disaster zone of a powerful earthquake that killed about 500 people and where an aftershock of 6,0 magnitude struck on Friday, the United States Geological Survey and witnesses said. The main quake of 8,0 magnitude hit on Wednesday.
Peruvians pulled hundreds of dead from the rubble of homes and churches on Thursday and bodies piled up on street corners after a huge earthquake ravaged the country’s central coast. CNN reported that 510 people were killed and 1 500 injured in the 8,0-magnitude quake on Wednesday night.
A massive earthquake hit Peru on Wednesday evening and officials said more than 330 people were dead in the rubble of collapsed homes and a church as rescuers searched for victims early on Thursday. Emergency workers said the coastal province of Ica south of Lima was the hardest-hit region.
A powerful, 7,9-magnitude earthquake, the strongest to rock Peru in decades, killed at least 115 people and injured nearly 1 000 others on Wednesday, with many more casualties feared. The quake, which lasted for almost two minutes, sent people fleeing into the streets and prompted tsunami warnings.
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/ 19 February 2007
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.
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/ 21 December 2006
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.