Peru’s dengue deaths triple as climate change swells mosquito population
Lima, Peru Reuters Deaths caused by the mosquito-born dengue disease have more than tripled in Peru so far this year, according to data from the South American nation’s government, which is redoubling efforts to contain an epidemic that has hit poor areas the hardest. The government of President Dina Boluarte this week said it had […]
Vatican abuse investigators begin their audit of secretive Peru-based Catholic society
Lima, Peru AP Two key Vatican investigators on Tuesday began an audit in Peru’s capital of a secretive Roman Catholic society with chapters across South America and in the US following allegations that its founder sexually molested young recruits. Maltese Archbishop Charles Scicluna and Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu, from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the […]
Violent response to Peru protesters may be ‘massacre,’ says rights group
Lima, Peru Reuters Peru’s security forces committed alarming human rights violations during anti-government protests last December, a regional human rights body said on Wednesday, adding that the response to demonstrators could be classified as a massacre. More than 60 people died in clashes with police and soldiers in protests that broke out following the ouster […]
Peru’s Toledo returns home to join two other former heads of state in jail
Lima, PeruReuters Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo returned on Sunday to Peru from the United States, becoming the third head of state to be imprisoned as the South American country seeks to shake off years of corruption by its rulers. Toledo, 77, has been ordered to serve a pre-trial detention of 18 months inside a […]
“I am Inca blood”: Peru protests fire up a divided nation
Lima/Desaguadero, Peru Reuters In the Peruvian southern border town of Desaguadero, Indigenous protester Adela Perez is defiant after almost eight weeks of deadly clashes that have roiled the Andean nation, hit its huge copper mines and strained the country’s democratic institutions. The country of some 34 million people has been in the throes of its worst […]
Protester dies in Lima as Peru’s political crisis continues
Reuters A man in Peru’s capital Lima died on Saturday and others were hospitalized as nationwide clashes between protesters and police continued in the eighth week of the South American country’s political crisis. The death of Victor Santisteban Yacsavilca, 55, brings to 58 the nationwide toll in the protests that began in early December after […]
Peru grapples with “nationwide chaos” as protests spread
Lima, PeruReuters Peru’s capital Lima awoke on Friday to find one of the city’s most historic buildings burnt to the ground after a night of fresh anti-government protests that extended across the country, as the President vowed to get tougher on “vandals.” A near-century old mansion in central Lima was destroyed after catching fire. Authorities […]
Peru protesters, fired up by deaths, march on Lima demanding change
Lima, Peru Reuters Thousands of Peruvians, many from the country’s southern mining regions, descended on the capital Lima on Thursday for a major planned march against the government and Congress, fired up by over 50 deaths linked to protests since last month. The clashes mark the worst violence Peru has seen in over 20 years […]
Peru extends state of emergency in protest-hit cities
Lima, Peru Reuters Peru has extended a state of emergency for another month in the capital city of Lima and two southern regions where deadly protests against the government have sparked the country’s worst violence in 20 years. A demonstrator waves Peru’s flag as security forces stand guard during a protest to demand the dissolution […]
Conservative Peruvian groups march for peace ahead of fresh protests
Lima, PeruReuters Thousands of Peruvians took the streets calling for peace on Tuesday, a day before fresh protests are expected following clashes caused by the ouster of former President Pedro Castillo left almost two dozen dead in December. People dressed in white carried Peru’s flag at the march, which was organised by conservative groups. Demonstrators […]