The 37-metre acrylic and concrete structure, which cost $800 000, is viewed by some as a symbol of corruption
The wife of Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori accused a Lima court on Wednesday of conducting a medieval-style ”witch trial”.
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.
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…
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…
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…
In only 100 days, President Alan Garcia has made Peruvians forget the food shortages, four-digit inflation and guerrilla violence that marred his first government in the 1980s.…
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’s government on Sunday sought to play down a diplomatic rift with Venezuela after announcing the withdrawal of its ambassador from Caracas amid accusations of interference…
The Ubinas volcano in southern Peru is spewing out clouds of gas and sulphur and threatening about 3 500 local inhabitants with acid rain, officials said. Local authorities on…
At least four people were killed in northern Peru late on Sunday when a strong earthquake shook the region, local authorities announced. But they said they expected damage from…
At least 41 people were killed but 57 survived when a Peruvian jetliner with 100 people on board crashed in a storm just seconds from landing in Peru’s Amazon basin, officials…
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…
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…
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…
