Sources: BBC
Former Peruvian president Martín Vizcarra is arrested after a judge investigating him for corruption orders five months of preventive detention. 2025-08-14
At least 25 people are killed and 13 injured when a bus plunges into a ravine in Cajamarca, Peru. 2024-04-28
Chile announces that 115 Venezuelan migrants were repatriated to Venezuela on a humanitarian flight, after being stranded at the border with Peru, raising tensions between Peru and Chile. 2023-05-7
A LATAM Airlines A320neo jet collides with a fire truck at Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima, Peru, killing two firefighters and injuring 25 other people. 2022-11-18
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
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
At least 33 people die when a bus tumbles into a river near Trujillo, Peru. 2013-04-14
Two new species of lizards are discovered in the Andes Mountains in Peru. 2013-03-22
Peru seizes $2.3 million in counterfeit U.S. 50 dollar bills heading to other South American countries. 2012-08-2
A 6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes 51 kilometres south-west of the city of Ica in Peru at a depth of 35 km. No reports of casualties are issued. 2011-10-28