The Latest Breaking News from Peru

Peru communities protesting MMG's Las Bambas mine to meet President Castillo

A group of Peruvian indigenous communities that have been protesting MMG Ltd's huge Las Bambas copper mine will meet with President Pedro Castillo on Tuesday in Lima in a new bid to defuse the crisis, a community leader told Reuters.

Reuters · May 24, 2022

How to make Peruvian beef stir fry

G Daniela Galarza tries a fusion of Indigenous, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese for dinner

The Independent UK · May 24, 2022

Peru's Castillo shuffles Cabinet again; replaces mining minister

Peru's President Pedro Castillo shuffled his Cabinet on Sunday, including replacing the interior minister and the important mining minister amid rising tensions over protests in the world's second largest copper producing country.

Reuters · May 23, 2022

Peru's Covid orphans struggle to get by

As Peru slowly emerges from the devastating Covid-19 pandemic, the government is trying to help the country's Covid orphans. According to the medical journal The Lancet, around 100,000 children in Peru lost at least one of their two parents to the pandemic; more than anywhere else in the world. The…

France 24 · May 13, 2022

Peru community wants its land back, threatening Chinese copper mine

The community of Fuerabamba in the Andean region of Peru was resettled eight years ago to make way for a giant Chinese-owned copper mine, in a $1.2 billion scheme billed as a model solution to protests dogging the South American nation's mining sector.

Reuters · May 12, 2022

Author Mario Vargas Llosa backs Bolsonaro over Lula in Brazil election

Peruvian writer criticises incumbent’s ‘clowning around’ but says he is still preferable to former president

The Guardian - UK · May 12, 2022

Peruvian beef stir-fry is fusion cooking at its best

Peru’s lomo saltado is fusion cooking at its easiest and most approachable

The Independent UK · May 9, 2022

Peru's government postpones meeting with Las Bambas mine protesters until Tuesday

The Peruvian government postponed a meeting scheduled for Saturday with the indigenous communities protesting Las Bambas copper mine due to protest leaders taking too long to respond, Prime Minister Anibal Torres said in a signed document.

Reuters · May 7, 2022

Peruvian protesters agree to attend talks over MMG's shut copper mine

Indigenous communities protesting the Las Bambas copper mine in Peru agreed on Friday to meet with government and company officials on Saturday about the dispute, which has forced the project's temporary closure.

Reuters · May 7, 2022

Peruvian Congress rejects president's bill to change constitution

Peru's Congress on Friday rejected a bill presented by President Pedro Castillo to call a referendum to change the constitution, a campaign promise he had made with the aim of boosting the state's role in the economy.

Reuters · May 6, 2022