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The United Kingdom announces visa-free entry for ordinary citizens of Colombia, Guyana and Peru.
2022-10-18

Peru's President Pedro Castillo names Guido Bellido of the party Free Peru as his prime minister.
2021-07-29

Peru reports the first case of the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 from the United Kingdom in a citizen who resides in Lima and had attended a family reunion days before Christmas.
2021-01-8

Peru declares a 60-day public health crisis in its northern provinces, with concern of the Venezuelan migrants spreading diseases.
2018-08-28

Pope Francis visits Peru and meets 4,000 members of the indigenous communities from the Amazon rainforest. He states that the people of the Amazon are threatened now more than ever, and questions the conservationist policies that affect the Peruvian rainforest. In Puerto Maldonado, he asks for the indigenous communities to be recognized as partners instead of as minorities. He calls on the Peruvian people to put an end to practices that degrade women, and criticizes the sterilization of indigenous women.
2018-01-19

A judge in Peru issues an arrest warrant for former President Alejandro Toledo for allegedly receiving US$20 million in bribes from Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction company, in exchange for a contract deal to build a transoceanic highway between Brazil and the Peruvian coast. Toledo denies any wrongdoing.
2017-02-10

At least 33 people die when a bus tumbles into a river near Trujillo, Peru.
2013-04-14

At least 20 people die after a bus plunges off a cliff in the Peruvian Andes.
2011-05-31

Peruvian indigenous Amazon groups announce a plan to launch their own political party before next year's election; protecting the rainforest and indigenous rights are to be among its aims.
2010-08-11