Sources: BBC
A Peruvian court sentences former president Alejandro Toledo to 13 years and four months in prison for laundering S-18 million (US$5.1 million) in bribes from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht through offshore accounts to purchase and refinance properties in Lima, with the sentence to run concurrently with his earlier conviction for accepting S-124 million ($35 million) in kickbacks. 2025-09-3
The government of Peru imposes a curfew and temporarily suspends gold mining in Pataz Province for 30 days after the bodies of thirteen miners who were kidnapped and killed were discovered on Sunday. 2025-05-6
Minister of Defense of Peru Walter Martos is named the new Prime Minister after the approval of the motion of no-confidence against Pedro Cateriano. 2020-08-6
In a school of the Moquegua city, in Peru, 66 children are poisoned by a leak from a gas regasification plant, located 300 meters away. All affected students were taken to a nearby health center. 2019-06-21
The main opposition party of Peru, Popular Force, which has the absolute majority in Congress, gives the president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski less than 24 hours to present his resignation. This comes after it revealed that he received large sums of money from the Odebrecht construction company, through a financial advisory firm of his property, in exchange of the concession of important infrastructures for the country. 2017-12-14
Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kuwait, Peru and Poland are elected to the United Nations Security Council for a two-year term beginning on January 1, 2018. 2017-06-2
Search crews locate the wreckage of a missing Sikorsky H-34 helicopter near Mt. Mamarosa in southern Peru, with all 14 on board confirmed dead. 2012-06-9
Comrade Artemio, leader of the Shining Path Peruvian rebel movement, is captured in the Huallaga Valley area by the Army and National Police. 2012-02-12
Peruvians vote in presidential elections with the most likely result a runoff between Ollanta Humala and either Pedro Pablo Kuczynski or Keiko Fujimori. 2011-04-10
Peruvian President Alan García orders funding for a tsunami-warning system. [http:--www.nzherald.co.nz-world-news-article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10631810 ("The New Zealand Herald")]date=August 2019 2010-03-13