The Latest Breaking News from Lima

Many tropical glaciers in the Andes are expected to disappear in the next few decades. Their meltwater sustains millions of people, feeding crops in the dry season, supplying Peru’s capital Lima and other big cities, and even boosting the Amazon river. As glaciers vanish, floods and droughts are becoming more…

Shamans in Peru have staged a traditional ritual in Lima to urge peace with Colombia amid a growing row over the ownership of Santa Rosa Island in the Amazon.

Inca Kola outshined Coca-Cola for decades, gaining a foothold during WWII through bodegas owned by a spurned community.

Dressed as the iconic TV character El Chapulín Colorado (The Red Grasshopper), a Peruvian police officer helped carry out a surprise drug raid in Lima, arresting five suspects and seizing marijuana and cocaine.

While laying gas pipes in Lima’s Puente Piedra district, workers uncovered a 1,000-year-old pre-Inca mummy just half a metre underground.

European restaurants make up three of the Top 5 spots on this year's World's 50 Best Restaurants list. However, Spain's Disfrutar, in Barcelona, has been dethroned as the highest ranked restaurant in the world...

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely half a meter from the surface

Leo XIV, the first pope born in the United States, is also claimed by the Peruvian people whom he served for over two decades as one of their own.

The death of Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, 1936 - Lima, 2025) marks the end of a Golden Age of Latin American literature. Just as there will not be another generation in Spain like that of Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Tirso de Molina, Góngora and…

Peruvian authorities on Monday declared a day of mourning with flags to fly at half mast on government buildings following the death of the Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.

The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, declared a state of emergency in the capital city, Lima, on March 18. The decree, which came amid a wave of violence, gives the police and military full control of the security situation there for a period of 30 days.