Peru

The two leaders also agreed humans, not artificial intelligence, should maintain control over nuclear weapons use in last meeting before Trump assumes US presidencyChinese leader Xi Jinping has said he is ready to work with the incoming US administration of Donald Trump as he met with outgoing president Joe Biden for what is expected to be the final […]

Anthony Albanese meets with leaders of Peru and Indonesia as middle nations seek to diversify trade away from the USThe prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has hailed “inclusive trade and investment” at a major Asia-Pacific economic forum in Peru where leaders are attempting to push against the protectionist policies favoured by US president-elect Donald […]

Deciphering an ancient number systemUPDATE: Read the solution hereIn the film Paddington in Peru, which opened this weekend, the plot revolves around a string bracelet that is said to contain mystical secrets.The bracelet is supposed to be a ‘khipu’, which was the Incan way of recording numbers. Knots were made on string, and these pieces of string were […]

Warming climate has caused rivers used for transport to dry up, leaving children with little food, water or school access, says UnicefTwo years of severe drought in the Amazon rainforest have left nearly half a million children facing shortages of water and food or limited access to school, according to a UN report.Scant rainfall and extreme heat driven by […]

34-year-old Hugo De La Cruz dies on way to hospitalOther players treated in hospital after incidentLightning has killed a 34-year-old player and injured five others during a football match in Peru.Sunday’s game between Juventud Bellavista and Familia Chocca in Huancayo province, about 70km south-east of Lima, was halted when lightning first struck, but a […]

The crime group has terrorised parts of Latin America, and the ex-president’s exaggerations may just empower it moreÁngela Villón Bustamante awoke to a WhatsApp notification on her phone. Still drowsy, she was horrified by what she saw: a graphic video showing the murder of a trans woman she knew named Rubí Ferrer.The killer shot Ferrer 31 times, […]

Country ordered to compensate victims of programme that affected more than 300,000 women in 1990sA UN committee has urged Peru to compensate women who were forcibly sterilised in the 1990s, ruling that the state policy could constitute a “crime against humanity”.Forced sterilisation was part of a programme implemented by Peru’s then president Alberto […]

Their fuel resources have long been plundered by others, while national grids have failed to connect them. Now, solar panels could give more than electricity to Indigenous peopleAt dusk, Piyulaga village starts to wake up. Families gather at the entrances of their huts, children play and cycle around, and Brazilian country music fills the air as lights […]

Peruvian priest regarded as ‘the father of liberation theology’In accounts of the recent history of the Catholic Church, it is often written that Pope Benedict XVI effectively killed off progressive Latin American liberation theology in the 1980s and 90s, when he was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and the chief Vatican watchdog on orthodoxy.He certainly […]

Dominican friar hailed as ‘prophet of the poor’ for belief that the church had political duty to end povertyGustavo Gutiérrez, the influential Peruvian priest known as “the father of liberation theology” and hailed as a “prophet of the poor”, has died in Lima at the age of 96.Gutiérrez, a theologian and Dominican friar, was a celebrated – […]

Former leader convicted of taking $35m in bribes from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht Peruvian former President Alejandro Toledo has been convicted of taking bribes from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht and was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison on Monday.The verdict marks Peru’s first high-profile conviction related to […]

Extortion rackets killed seven people in less than 12 hours in Lima recently, despite a two-month state of emergencyLate into the night, mothers chanted for justice outside their children’s school in Lima after a teacher was gunned down in front of his students in the latest and most shocking example of a surge in gang violence in Peru.CCTV footage of the […]

The government is auctioning off plots of pristine Indigenous reserves for fossil fuel projects, with campaigners warning of a ‘silent genocide’Above the canopy of the tallest trees that vie for sunlight in the depths of the Peruvian Amazon, gas flares shoot into the sky. Below, Julio Cusurichi, 53, can see the thick, dark grease that clings to the […]

Raymi Saldaña Rojas, who has died aged 14, was a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist, known for winning young artist awards and playing at prestigious venues and music festivals.He grew up surrounded by music and artists as his parents, Jeanette Rojas (known as Phaxsi Coca) and Carlos Saldaña (Kanti Quena), are musicians themselves, part of the group Lokandes. […]

Newly discovered figures dating back to 200BCE nearly double the number of known geoglyphs at enigmatic siteArchaeologists using artificial intelligence (AI) have discovered hundreds of new geoglyphs depicting parrots, cats, monkeys, killer whales and even decapitated heads near the Nazca Lines in Peru, in a find that nearly doubles the number of known […]