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Peruvian President Alan Garcia accused Chile of assaulting Peru's sovereignty, throwing his weight behind allegations that Chile paid a Peruvian military officer to spy.
A Venezuelan opposition figure sought political asylum in Peru on Thursday to evade charges that he incited violence in an August protest against a controversial education law, his lawyer said.
Two buses crashed head-on Thursday on a mountain road near Lake Titicaca in Peru, killing at least 23 people and injuring 50 more, police said.
A top Indian leader on Thursday called for an end to protests that left dozens dead in Peru's Amazon after Congress revoked two decrees that indigenous groups said would spur oil and gas exploitation and other development on their ancestral lands.
A defiant former President Alberto Fujimori on Friday called his murder and kidnapping trial political persecution and said the charges reflect a double standard since his predecessors never faced trial for alleged abuses during their presidencies.
Peru's attorney general presented criminal charges Friday against eight people, including a recently demoted rear admiral, accused of making illegal wiretap recordings that forced the entire Cabinet to resign.
In another twist to Peru's oil-kickback scandal, police have arrested five people for allegedly recording the telephone conversations that revealed the scheme.
Peru's government declared a state of emergency Monday in remote jungle regions where Indian groups are blocking highways and oil and gas installations to protest a law that makes it easier to sell their lands.
A South American trade group gave member states the go-ahead to set their own intellectual property laws on Thursday, letting Peru clear a key hurdle toward implementing a free-trade deal with the United States.
Tens of thousands of union workers took to the streets across Peru on Wednesday to protest rising food and fuel prices they blame on the free market policies of President Alan Garcia.
Peru's president said Tuesday that he's sick of Bolivian President Evo Morales criticizing Peru's trade pact with the United States, spreading false rumors about American military bases and urging Peruvians to protest in the street. Things really got unneighborly when Morales called Garcia "fat."
A former Peruvian spymaster whose misdeeds contributed to the collapse of Alberto Fujimori's government eight years ago told a top court Monday that the ex-president had nothing to do with two death-squad massacres he is accused of authorizing.
Photos of uncontacted Indians near Peru's border are prompting new efforts to find and protect such people from threats to their land and lives — although senior officials have questioned whether they even exist.
Peru's Cabinet chief testified Friday at the trial of former President Alberto Fujimori that security forces attempted to assassinate two-time President Alan Garcia in 1992, when Fujimori was running the country and Garcia was out of office.
Hooded men with machine guns burst into a Lima tenement and killed 15 people at a barbecue, including an 8-year-old boy, two survivors of the 1991 attack testified Friday at the murder trial of former President Alberto Fujimori.
Former president Alberto Fujimori, on trial for murder and kidnapping, apologized Friday for two death squad massacres that could land him in prison for 30 years.
Sirens wailed, church bells rang and a sea of confetti fluttered through Lima's historical central plaza at the stroke of noon Thursday, alerting Peruvians to synchronize their watches at the start of a nationwide campaign to promote punctuality.
When Peruvian officials set out to spread the wealth, they probably didn't mean mayors should build extravagant town halls and heated swimming pools.
Human rights activists have formally accused a leading contender in Peru's presidential race of atrocities during his 1992 command of a jungle counterinsurgency base.
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