Peru

Student archaeologists unearth Huaca Pintada, described as ‘the most exciting and important find of recent years’A team of student archaeologists has rediscovered a 1,000-year-old multicoloured mural depicting a deity surrounded by warriors which was last seen a century ago in northern Peru.Known as the Huaca Pintada, the 30-metre-long wall painted with […]

Leaders from Achuar and Wampis peoples say Petroperú is responsible for spills in their territoryNative leaders from the Peruvian Amazon are to travel to the US this week to lobby banks to cut financial ties with Peru’s state oil company, Petroperú.Leaders from the Achuar and Wampis peoples say the state company is responsible for oil spills in their […]

Group of more than 100 including British and American travellers were detained in protest over government response to oil spillIndigenous protesters have released more than 100 tourists and local people who were held on a boat for more than a day in an attempt to force the Peruvian government to act over oil spills in the Amazon region where they live.The […]

About 70 people seized in protest at environmental damage from crude oil spillage into Cuninico RiverIndigenous people in the Amazon in Peru have detained a group of Peruvian and foreign tourists, including UK and US citizens, in protest at a lack of government aid following an oil spill in the area.“[We want] to call the government’s attention with […]

Edi Rama tells press conference in Berlin that UK rhetoric sounds like ‘screams from a madhouse’The UK government should look to Germany to learn how to cope with a wave of immigrants, the Albanian prime minister has said, as he criticised its depiction of his countrymen as criminals.“I have never heard any German politician or government minister […]

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has made the South American country’s deposits of bird poo more valuableAs countries around the world wrestle with shortages of imported fertiliser as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Peru has turned to a tried and tested alternative: bird poo.In the 19th century, fortunes were made and lost on guano, the potent […]

The professor-turned-messianic figure’s terror group killed tens of thousands of people in 1980s and 1990s, ripping apart the country’s political and social fabricA year has passed since Abimael Guzmán, the aging leader of the Shining Path terror group, died in prison, yet the trauma he inflicted on the Andean nation continues to haunt its people and […]

A brush with the law has alarmed the community of about 100 families who fear losing the land they have made their homeWere it not for the ebullient fecundity of the Amazon rainforest surrounding it, Wanderland could almost be a stretch of Dutch farmland from the 19th century; a straight muddy track bisects rows of neatly spaced farmyards with perpendicular […]

In the film of Sinclair’s book, the writer ends up rerouting the story of his great-grandfather’s expedition to the Amazon to its own psychogeographic musingsAccompanying the book of the same name, Iain Sinclair extends his psychogeographic franchise out to the New World in this lightly dramatised documentary, which traces the 1891 trek of his […]

Gean del Aguila’s body was recovered after he disappeared last Sunday when he encountered the Mashco-Piro tribe while fishingThe death of a logger who was shot with arrows has cast a spotlight on the growing conflict around an Indigenous reserve occupied by an Indigenous tribe that has long lived in voluntary isolation on Peru’s south-eastern Amazon […]

Rising gold prices have led to increasingly violent land grabs, with rightful owners left to defend themselves and the rainforest from attackJuan Julio Fernández Hanco was shot in the head on his brother’s doorstep in March. His family says they know the killers by sight and still see them around La Pampa, a gold-rush town and hub for organised crime in […]

Perenco sues Peru government for repeal of law that offers recognition to proposed Napo-Tigre reserve Isolated Peruvian tribes face a threat to their existence from a push to scrap a planned Indigenous reserve led by an Anglo-French oil company, Indigenous groups say.The firm, Perenco, whose slogan is “Oil remains an adventure”, filed an injunction in […]

In Peru’s Sacred Valley, a community-led initiative is creating fire prevention brigades to stop devastating wildfires before they even beginPeru’s Sacred Valley, the breathtaking landscape between Cusco and Machu Picchu, has always had a few conventional fire brigades, but anyone who has ever witnessed a bushfire will know there is little you can do […]

Endemic frogs of captivating beauty, mammals and wild birds are among the species to be found in Peru’s Cordillera Escalera conservation area, a protected highly biodiverse area between the Andes and the jungle in the east of the country Continue reading...

Bad Bunny, Real Madrid and Marvel have all made use of El Bebito Fiu Fiu, which mocks an alleged scandalA musical send-up of an embarrassing scandal involving a former Peruvian president unexpectedly reached first place in the Spotify Viral 50 ranking before it was withdrawn from the platform over a copyright violation.The song, known as El Bebito Fiu Fiu, […]