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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

Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador says that his government will continue to recognize detained former Peruvian president Pedro Castillo as president of Peru and says that relations between both countries are now "paused".
2022-12-13

Peru announces that people over the age of 18 years who want to enter indoor spaces must show a proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 beginning in December, either physical or virtual vaccination cards.
2021-11-14

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

At least 15 people are killed in a crash between a bus and a truck in Arequipa, Peru.
2019-01-26

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 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Pacific Ocean near Acarí in Peru's Arequipa Region resulting in 1 death and 65 injured.
2018-01-14

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

President Rafael Correa is injured and Peru and Colombia close their border with the country.
2010-09-30

A huge glacier breaks off and plunges into a lake in Peru sparking a 23-metre high tsunami wave that destroyed a nearby town. The massive chunk of ice - around the size of four football pitches - tumbled into the '513 lake' in the Andes near Carhuaz, around 200 miles north of Lima.
2010-04-13