The Latest Breaking News from Peru

Travelling around Chile, Argentina and Peru – with a focus on Indigenous tourism – is a transformative adventure

Iquitos is a city of over 400,000 inhabitants located at the heart of the Peruvian Amazon and accessible only by boat or plane. In recent years, it has become a hotbed of wildlife trafficking in one of the world’s most biodiverse areas. More than 300 species in Peru are directly…

Despite his convictions for corruption and human rights abuses, many see the president who has died at 86 as the country’s greatest leader

As Peru prepares to lay former president Alberto Fujimori to rest on Saturday, the families of civilians killed in his war on left-wing guerrillas are grappling with his death.

The death of Alberto Fujimori, the deeply divisive former Peruvian president, comes amid a resurgence of interest in the former strongman – both from supporters and detractors.

Imagine the seas off Peru, 6 million years ago. A group of long-nosed dolphins swam through the warm seawater, breaking the surface with occasional enthusiastic leaps into the stark sunshine, then diving crisply back into the clear water to join their compadres.

Peru’s government has declared three days of national mourning over the death of former President Alberto Fujimori

President of Peru who at first oversaw economic growth in the country, but was later jailed for human rights crimes

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