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The Peruvian Congress removes president José Jerí from office following a scandal over undisclosed meetings with Chinese businessmen.
2026-02-17

A Peruvian court sentences former president Martín Vizcarra to 14 years in prison for accepting bribes from construction companies while serving as governor of Moquegua between 2011 and 2014.
2025-11-26

Peruvian president José Jerí declares a 30-day state of emergency in Lima in an attempt to curb rising crime.
2025-10-21

One person is killed and 100 people are wounded during clashes in Lima, Peru, as protestors demands the resignation of President José Jerí.
2025-10-16

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

A court in Lima, Peru, sentences former president Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia to 15 years in prison for laundering funds from Brazilian company Odebrecht to finance his 2006 and 2011 presidential campaigns.
2025-04-15

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

Peruvian President Pedro Castillo announces that the Peruvian government has reached an agreement with Russia to create a plant that would produce a Sputnik V vaccine in the country.
2021-09-6

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

A judge in Peru issues an arrest warrant for former President Alejandro Toledo for allegedly receiving US$20 million in bribes from Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction company, in exchange for a contract deal to build a transoceanic highway between Brazil and the Peruvian coast. Toledo denies any wrongdoing.
2017-02-10