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Montevideo, January 5th 2026 - 02:41 UTC

Tag: Peru

  • Monday, October 13th 2025 - 07:56 UTC

    Peru's acting president hopes to appoint “broad-based” cabinet

    Jerí has been under criticism for taking too long to appoint his cabinet

    Peruvian Acting President José Jerí, who took office early Friday morning following the dismissal of Dina Boluarte, has announced the formation of a “broad-based” cabinet to tackle crime and guide the country until 2026.

  • Friday, October 10th 2025 - 10:58 UTC

    Peru: Congress ousts Boluarte for moral incapacity

    Peru's first female president, Boluarte served for two years and ten months, having assumed office in late 2022 after the impeachment of her predecessor and former running mate, Pedro Castillo

    Peru's one-house Congress removed Dina Boluarte from the presidency late Thursday, citing her “permanent moral incapacity.” In an expedited proceeding, Congress Speaker José Jiri was sworn in as acting president just six months before the 2026 elections.

  • Saturday, October 4th 2025 - 11:15 UTC

    South Korean company intends to build high-speed railway in Peru

    The project seeks “to revolutionize the national railway infrastructure,” Sandoval explained

    Peruvian authorities are developing a plan for a high-speed railway along its coast, supported by a South Korean company, Transport and Communications Minister César Sandoval confirmed on Friday.

  • Saturday, September 13th 2025 - 10:06 UTC

    Peru: Chiclayo to hold festive weekend marking Leo XIV's birthday

    Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV this year

    The Peruvian city of Chiclayo is holding a massive two-day tribute this weekend to celebrate Sunday's 70th birthday of its former US-born Bishop Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV.

  • Friday, September 12th 2025 - 19:55 UTC

    Peru's Congress shelves complaint against Boluarte

    Boluarte can still be investigated once her term ends

    Peru's one-House Congress has voted to shelve a constitutional complaint against President Dina Boluarte regarding the deaths and injuries during protests following the ousting of former President Pedro Castillo in December 2022.

  • Thursday, September 4th 2025 - 10:22 UTC

    Peru: Vizcarra released from prison

    The former president was deemed to pose no flight risk

    Former Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra was released on Wednesday from his preventive detention as he was deemed to pose a flight risk regarding the charges against him of accepting bribes while he was governor of the Moquegua region (2011-2014).

  • Saturday, August 30th 2025 - 10:11 UTC

    Peru: Scientists extracting skeleton of 20-million-year-old bird

    The fossil was found two years ago, but is to be removed from a thick rock in the coming days

    A team of Peruvian researchers has discovered the perfectly preserved fossil of a new, giant seabird species believed to be 20 million years old. The skeleton, found in the Ocucaje Desert in the department of Ica, is similar in size to a modern condor. In principle, the specimen is believed to belong to a species never before studied.

  • Saturday, August 16th 2025 - 10:14 UTC

    Peru: Boluarte enacts pardon for human rights violations between 1980 and 2000

    Boluarte argues that the measure recognized the State's fight against terrorism

    Despite requests from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and other international bodies, Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has enacted a controversial amnesty law, granting amnesty to military personnel, police officers, and civilians accused or convicted of human rights violations between 1980 and 2000.

  • Thursday, August 14th 2025 - 08:50 UTC

    Border incidents escalate diplomatic crisis between Colombia and Peru

    Daniel Quintero, former mayor of Medellín and ally of President Petro, released a video raising the Colombian flag in territory claimed by Peru

    Tensions between Colombia and Peru have risen following a series of incidents in the disputed area of Santa Rosa de Loreto, on the Amazon River. The latest occurred on Monday, when former Medellín mayor and presidential hopeful Daniel Quintero raised the Colombian flag on Chinería Island, territory under Peruvian control. “There is no way I will let Peru take the Amazon River from us… homeland or death,” he declared in a video posted on social media.

  • Friday, August 8th 2025 - 10:15 UTC

    Petro escalates border dispute with Peru over Amazon island: “The treaty was violated”

    The dispute revives a long-standing territorial disagreement between the two countries, whose borders were formally established by treaties in 1922 and 1929

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro escalated a diplomatic conflict with Peru on Thursday by accusing Lima of violating border treaties over the disputed sovereignty of Santa Rosa Island, located in the Amazon River. “Colombia does not recognize Peru’s sovereignty over the so-called Santa Rosa Island and does not recognize the de facto authorities,” Petro declared from Leticia, a Colombian border city that, for the first time, hosted the country’s Independence Day celebrations.