Cuzco, Peru News

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui was the ninth Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cusco, which he transformed into the empire Tawantinsuyu, or the Inca Empire.

Tupac Shakur's birth name was Lesane Parish Crooks. Within thirty-six months, he'd been renamed for the last Incan emperor, a rebel beheaded by the Spanish before thousands in Cuzco in modern-day Peru.

In this 2011 file photo a Quechua woman walks past people waiting outside a school to vote in the general elections in Cuzco, Peru.

A Chilean man accused of "sacrificing" a three-day-old baby girl has been found hanged in an abandoned house in Peru.

Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht plans to invest $20 billion globally over the next three years, mostly in Latin America and much of it in Peru , the company's chief executive said on Wednesday.

This undated photo released by Chile's Police Investigative Unit on Thursday, April 25, 2013, shows Ramon Gustavo Castillo Gaete, 36, who authorities said is the leader of a 12-member sect that is accused of burning a baby alive.

Peru's President Ollanta Humala and Energy Minister Jorge Merino shake hands after a symbolic agreement which marks the natural gas from Block 88 for domestic use at the Camisea project in the Amazon jungle in Cuzco, April 3, 2012.

There are few better places that illustrate the impact of the Spanish conquest of Latin America than the Plaza de Armas in Cuzco, Peru.