Sources: BBC
Peruvian police and prosecutors conduct searches at the electoral authority's headquarters and a private company as part of an investigation into delays in delivering voting materials that prevent more than 60,000 people from voting. Officials attribute the issue to logistical failures affecting multiple polling stations in Lima. The electoral authority later announces that some polling stations will reopen. 2026-04-12
Thousands of people led by the "Generation Z" collective protest in Lima, Peru, against President Dina Boluarte and a controversial new law requiring young people to join a private pension fund. 2025-09-21
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
President Pedro Castillo imposes a curfew in Lima amid protests against inflation caused by rising fuel and fertiliser costs. 2022-04-5
A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes northern Peru at 131 km of depth, killing one person and injuring 12 others. 75 homes are destroyed and around 220 damaged. The earthquake is felt as far south as Lima. President Pedro Castillo orders the deployment of relief and also viewed the area in a military aircraft. 2021-11-28
At least 32 people are killed and more than 20 others are wounded as a bus plummets from a cliff in Lima, Peru. 2021-08-31
The Chamber of Commerce of Lima warns that just under a million Peruvians are at risk of returning to poverty. 2019-06-25
Heads of state and government from across the Americas meet in Lima, Peru, for the Eighth Summit of the Americas. 2018-04-13
Hundreds of nude cyclists take to the street in Lima, Peru to protest unsafe road conditions. 2012-03-10
A Peruvian judge orders that United States born militant Lori Berenson be released from prison in Lima. [http:--www.thenewstribune.com-2010-11-05-1411718-judge-orders-lori-berenson-freed.html (AP via "The News Tribune")]date=August 2019 2010-11-5