Sources: BBC
At least 25 people are killed and 17 others are injured when a bus veers off a cliff and crashes in Ayacucho Region, Peru. 2024-07-16
Hundreds of protesters march in Lima, Peru, to demand the reversal of a new law that describes transgender people as having a mental illness. 2024-05-18
A prison riot at the Lurigancho jail over demands for better sanitary measures and COVID-19 medical care in San Juan de Lurigancho, Peru, leaves nine inmates dead, according to the National Penitentiary Institute. 2020-04-28
Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Colombia, and Chile tighten border controls for Venezuelan migrants. Over 7% of Venezuela’s total population has fled the nation in two years. 2018-08-19
Heads of state and government from across the Americas meet in Lima, Peru, for the Eighth Summit of the Americas. 2018-04-13
A coach transiting the Pan-American Highway plunges off the road in Arequipa, Peru, killing 44 people. 2018-02-21
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
Hundreds of nude cyclists take to the street in Lima, Peru to protest unsafe road conditions. 2012-03-10
A Peruvian court revokes the parole of Lori Berenson, a United States citizen convicted in the 1990s of collaborating with the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. 2010-08-18
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