Peru News

Alejandro Toledo doesn't look like a former president of a country in this hemisphere with 26 million people.

ICA, Peru - A small grove of huarango, the storied Peruvian tree that can live over a millennium, rests like a mirage amid the sand dunes on this city's edge.

People forget how small Israel is. Its entire population is a little over 7 million -- smaller than Lima, Peru.

Around dinnertime tonight, the Toronto region will find out whether it has finally overcome the stigma of past failed Olympic bids to host its first major international sporting event since the 1930s: the 2015 Pan American Game.

President Alan Garcia says Brazil's state-run Petrobras has found at least 1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in Peru's jungle, enough to ensure the Andean country's gas supply through 2050.

Submitted by Robert Daeley on Tue, 2009-11-03 12:26. Most will probably know the Nazca as the creators of the Nazca Lines - the giant drawings in the desert.

LIMA: Two workers died and two were missing after an attack on Chinese miner Zijin's Rio Blanco copper project in Peru, a sign the government's push to lure foreign investment has polarized domestic politics.

An ancient South American civilisation which disappeared around 1,500 years ago helped to cause its own demise by damaging the fragile ecosystem that held it in place, a study has found.

Two Peruvian officials were in Yakima on Friday to discuss how to expand business relationship with the region.

Catholic priest Marco Arana, who is also a social and environmental activist, has not yet officially decided to run in Peru's next presidential elections, but he is already facing opposition from the highest-level Catholic Church officials in the country.

The Peruvian government on Tuesday denied that a military helicopter, which crashed the same day in the Andean region, was connected to drug trafficking or a terrorist attack.

Lima, Oct 27 Two leaders from Peruvian ports warned there would be a social convulsion if the government refuses to annule the delivery of the northern port of Paita to a foreign company.

If history tells us anything, it is that we either learn from our mistakes or we are condemned to repeat them.

The Archbishop of Piura and President of Caritas Piura and Tumbes, Archbishop Jose Antonio Eguren Anselmi, recently presented the 'Integral Plan for developing food security in 19 farming areas in Tumbes.' As the Archdiocesan press office notes, the objective of the project is to contribute to 'an improvement in the quality of life and sustained ...

Peruvian President Alan Garcia and his Ecuadorian counterpart Rafael Correa on Thursday held talks which were described by them as "historical" following armed confrontation over a century.

Sen. Jerome Delvin, R-Richland, said today he will play host to governors of two agricultural regions in Peru during their Oct.

Just got back from a ramble around Lima. Went to Plaza Mayor where the palace is to watch the changing of the guard, then to Plaza San Martin and finally to a 1500s gaol to see how they tortured non'Catholics. Hmmm.

Peru's drug traffickers enjoy profits of roughly $700 million a year and that money is finding its way into every corner of the national economy, a prominent expert said here Monday.

It's a classic rock n' roll stumble: band is on a long tour, places bleed together day to day, and then singer forgets where he is and thanks the wrong city.

A soldier was killed and another wounded in clashes between army troops and Shining Path guerrillas over the weekend in the strife-torn Valley of the Apurimac and Ene rivers, known as the VRAE region, where drug traffickers and the so-called 'remnants' of the rebel group operate, the Armed Forces Joint Command said.