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Deeply unpopular Peruvian president calls for general elections in April 2026

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Peruvian President Dina Boluarte says her country will hold general elections one year from now in an effort to end years of instability.

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Peru's detained ex-President Castillo transferred to a hospital days after starting hunger strike

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Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has been taken from prison to a hospital days after beginning a hunger strike in protest of his ongoing rebellion trial.

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With Peru in the global spotlight for APEC, so is one of the world's least popular presidents

Read full article: With Peru in the global spotlight for APEC, so is one of the world's least popular presidents

The high-profile Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima has thrust one of the world’s least popular presidents into the limelight.

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Peruvian lawmakers begin yet another effort to remove President Dina Boluarte from office

Read full article: Peruvian lawmakers begin yet another effort to remove President Dina Boluarte from office

Peruvian lawmakers have begun yet another effort to remove President Dina Boluarte from office as authorities continue various investigations against her and her inner circle.

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Prosecutors widen illicit enrichment probe against Peru's president to include jewelry worth $500K

Read full article: Prosecutors widen illicit enrichment probe against Peru's president to include jewelry worth $500K

Peru’s top prosecutor says the scope of an investigation into President Dina Boluarte’s ownership of three luxury watches has broaden to include fine jewelry that authorities estimate could be worth more than $500,000 and money transactions that exceed $400,000.

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Government agents raid Peruvian President Boluarte's residence in luxury watch investigation

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Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has said she rejects the “unconstitutional and discriminatory” way an investigation into allegations of illicit enrichment is being carried out, after police broke down the front door of her house with a battering ram overnight in search of luxury watches.

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Mexican president wants to meet with Biden in Washington on migration, drug trafficking

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Mexico’s top diplomat, Alicia Bárcena, says President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wants to travel to Washington D.

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From a secret safehouse, Peru's Indigenous revolt advances

Read full article: From a secret safehouse, Peru's Indigenous revolt advances

Peruvian Indigenous activists have gotten a jolt of self-confidence from the movement demanding the resignation of interim President Dina Boluarte.

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Turmoil risks financial stability Peru long took for granted

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The Peruvian city of Cusco is normally a bustling mecca for international tourists.

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Dems urge Biden to halt aid to Peru over protest crackdown

Read full article: Dems urge Biden to halt aid to Peru over protest crackdown

A group of House Democrats is urging the Biden administration to suspend all U.S. security assistance to Peru.

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Peru's protest 'deactivators' run toward tear gas to stop it

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When police fire tear gas at protesters demanding the resignation of Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, most run away.

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Peru protesters tear-gassed after president calls for truce

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Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Peru’s capital and were met with volleys of tear gas and pellets amid clashes with security forces just hours after President Dina Boluarte called for a “truce” in almost two months of protests.

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Rights groups dismayed at lack of criticism for Peru abuses

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In less than two months, more than 50 people have died in Peru, largely protesters at the hands of police officers.

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Peru closes Machu Picchu as anti-government protests grow

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Peru has indefinitely shut its iconic tourist site Machu Picchu in the latest sign that anti-government protests are increasingly engulfing the South American country.

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Despite tear gas, Peru protesters vow to keep demonstrating

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Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Peru’s capital and are being met with volleys of tear gas for the second straight day, as demonstrators made clear they will keep up their mobilizations to demand the resignation of President Dina Boluarte.

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Peru police use tear gas to block protesters from marching

Read full article: Peru police use tear gas to block protesters from marching

People are pouring into Peru’s capital, many from remote Andean regions, for a protest against President Dina Boluarte and in support of her predecessor, whose ouster last month launched weeks of deadly unrest and cast the nation into political chaos.

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2 more people killed in southern Peru amid unrest

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Protesters have set fire to the police station and judicial office in the Peruvian town of Macusani after two people were killed and another seriously injured by gunfire amid antigovernment protests.

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Peru anti-government protests spread, with clashes in Cusco

Read full article: Peru anti-government protests spread, with clashes in Cusco

Protests against Peruvian President Dina Boluarte’s government that have left 48 people dead since they began a month ago are spreading through the south of the Andean country with new clashes reported in the tourist city of Cusco.

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Policeman burned to death amid antigovernment unrest in Peru

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Authorities say a police officer on patrol was attacked and burned to death by protesters in the Peruvian region of Puno as the death toll from demonstrations in the wake of the dismissal of former President Pedro Castillo rose to 47.

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Mexican ambassador expelled from Peru over meddling claims

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In a roller-coaster day for Mexico's ties with Peru, Mexico announced Tuesaday that it had granted asylum for the family of ousted Peruvian president Pedro Castillo.

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Peru Congress opens door to early elections amid unrest

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Peru’s congress has tentatively endorsed a plan to hold early elections in 2024 in a bid to defuse a political crisis marked by deadly unrest after lawmakers ousted President Pedro Castillo.

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Peru's dark past surfaces as young protester is laid to rest

Read full article: Peru's dark past surfaces as young protester is laid to rest

Hundreds of people poured into the streets of a rural hamlet in Peru’s Andean highlands on Saturday to pay their final respects to a 23-year-old student killed in clashes with the army a day earlier.

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Peru's accidental president fails to quell violent protests

Read full article: Peru's accidental president fails to quell violent protests

It might be the world’s shortest political honeymoon.

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Peru judge orders 18-month detention for ousted president

Read full article: Peru judge orders 18-month detention for ousted president

A Peruvian judge has ordered ousted President Pedro Castillo to remain in custody for 18 months, approving a request from authorities for time to build their rebellion case against him.

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Peru's new government declares police state amid protests

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Peru’s new government has imposed a police state amid violent protests following the ouster of President Pedro Castillo.

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Peru judge denies ousted leader Pedro Castillo's jail appeal

Read full article: Peru judge denies ousted leader Pedro Castillo's jail appeal

A judge has ordered ousted Peruvian President Pedro Castillo to remain in custody, denying his appeal as authorities build a rebellion case against him.

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Anger in rural areas fuels protests against Peru government

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The anger of Peruvians against their government is nowhere more visible than in a remote rural Andean community where the poor have struggled for years.

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Peru's president asks Cabinet to take anti-corruption pledge

Read full article: Peru's president asks Cabinet to take anti-corruption pledge

Peru’s newest president has sworn in her Cabinet and asked each member to pledge not to be corrupt while in office.

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Peru's ex-president faced bigotry for impoverished past

Read full article: Peru's ex-president faced bigotry for impoverished past

Peru’s poor, mainly peasants and Indigenous people, had hoped that Pedro Castillo’s victory last year in a runoff presidential election would redress their plight or at least end their invisibility.

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New Peru president appears with military to cement power

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Peru’s first female president appeared in a military ceremony on national television on Friday in her first official event as head of state, an attempt to cement her power and buck the national trend of early presidential departures.

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Peru president's power grab recalls country's dark past

Read full article: Peru president's power grab recalls country's dark past

At his initial court appearance in Lima, Peru on Thursday, Pedro Castillo gave only yes or no answers, looking on downcast as his attorney argued that he had been arbitrarily detained.

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Peru's president ousted by Congress in political crisis

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The president of Peru was ousted by Congress and arrested on a charge of rebellion Wednesday after he sought to dissolve the legislative body and take unilateral control of the government, triggering a grave constitutional crisis.

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Challenges mount against Peru's president, his family

Read full article: Challenges mount against Peru's president, his family

President Pedro Castillo’s surprise election brought hopes for change in Peru’s unstable and corrupt political system, but the impoverished rural teacher and political neophyte has found himself so engulfed in impeachment votes and corruption allegations that his presidency has become an exercise in political survival.

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Peru judge: preventative prison for president's relative

Read full article: Peru judge: preventative prison for president's relative

A Peruvian judge has ordered President Pedro Castillo’s sister-in-law to be held in prison up to 2.5 years while she is investigated for her participation in an alleged money laundering scheme involving the president and first lady.

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Peru's struggling president marks his first year in office

Read full article: Peru's struggling president marks his first year in office

Like many in her Peruvian Andes community, María Acevedo voted for Pedro Castillo for president last year, drawn in part by the possibility of seeing the nation led by someone with rural roots like her own.

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Peruvian president faces investigation in corruption case

Read full article: Peruvian president faces investigation in corruption case

Peruvian President Pedro Castillo appeared before national prosecutors to answer questions regarding an ongoing investigation in which he is accused of being the leader of an alleged criminal conspiracy that received bribes for public works contracts.

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UN says Ukraine war threatens to devastate many poor nations

Read full article: UN says Ukraine war threatens to devastate many poor nations

A U.N. task force warns that Russia’s war on Ukraine threatens to devastate the economies of many developing countries that are now facing even higher food and energy costs and increasingly difficult financial conditions.

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Facing hunger, Peru's poor band together with 'common pots'

Read full article: Facing hunger, Peru's poor band together with 'common pots'

Every day for more than two years, Cindy Cueto has woken up in the house she shares with her three children atop a desert hill in Peru’s capital, and wondered: “What are we going to eat?”.

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Peru imposes, then withdraws curfew to quell price protests

Read full article: Peru imposes, then withdraws curfew to quell price protests

Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has lifted a curfew he had decreed less than a day earlier in the country’s capital and its main port in a bid to quell sometimes violent protests over rising fuel and food prices.

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Peru's president survives 2nd impeachment effort in 8 months

Read full article: Peru's president survives 2nd impeachment effort in 8 months

Peru’s embattled president has avoided joining the South American nation’s list of impeached leaders.

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Turmoil as Peru leader sets 2nd Cabinet overhaul this week

Read full article: Turmoil as Peru leader sets 2nd Cabinet overhaul this week

Turmoil in Peru’s government is boiling even more as President Pedro Castillo plans a fourth Cabinet shakeup in six months.

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Peru: 21 beaches polluted by spill linked to Tonga eruption

Read full article: Peru: 21 beaches polluted by spill linked to Tonga eruption

Peru has declared an environmental emergency after announcing that 21 beaches on the Pacific coast were contaminated by an oil spill at a refinery run by Spain-based Repsol, following surging waves caused by the eruption of an underwater volcano near Tonga.

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Peru: Abimael Guzmán, head of Shining Path insurgency, dies

Read full article: Peru: Abimael Guzmán, head of Shining Path insurgency, dies

The Peruvian government says Abimael Guzmán, the leader of the brutal Shining Path insurgency in Peru who was captured in 1992, has died in a military hospital after an illness.

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Leftist political novice sworn in as Peru's president

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A leftist political novice who has promised to be a champion of his country’s poor has been sworn in as Peru’s new president.

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Leftist teacher, political novice, is Peru's president-elect

Read full article: Leftist teacher, political novice, is Peru's president-elect

A teacher in one of the poorest communities in the Andes who has never held office is now Peru’s president-elect after officials in the South American country declared him the winner of a runoff election held last month.

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Leftist rural teacher declared president-elect in Peru

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A rural teacher-turned-political novice has became the winner of Peru’s presidential election after the country’s longest electoral count in 40 years.

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Leftist teacher inches toward victory in disputed Peru vote

Read full article: Leftist teacher inches toward victory in disputed Peru vote

Peru has finished tallying votes in the country’s tight presidential contest but no winner has been declared, with electoral authorities saying they are scrutinizing a small number of ballots amid unproven claims of possible vote tampering leveled by the apparent loser.

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Peru's presidential runoff election too close to call

Read full article: Peru's presidential runoff election too close to call

A rural teacher-turned-political novice and the daughter of an imprisoned former president have traded the lead in a tight race for Peru's presidency.

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2 polarizing populists vie in Peru's presidential runoff

Read full article: 2 polarizing populists vie in Peru's presidential runoff

Peruvian voters faced a choice between two polarizing populist candidates during Sunday's presidential runoff.

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Peruvians to pick new president amid relentless pandemic

Read full article: Peruvians to pick new president amid relentless pandemic

Peruvians are set to pick a new president amid a relentless coronavirus pandemic that has even pushed cemeteries in the South American nation beyond capacity.

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Scientists get creative to carry on research during pandemic

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The coronavirus upended the work of many Latin American scientists, who had to get creative to carry on with their research.

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Students' struggles pushed Peru teacher to run for president

Read full article: Students' struggles pushed Peru teacher to run for president

As schools across Peru closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, Pedro Castillo tried to find a way to keep classes going for his 20 fifth- and sixth-grade students.

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Ecuador goes with conservative banker in presidential vote

Read full article: Ecuador goes with conservative banker in presidential vote

Voters in Ecuador appear to have turned to a conservative businessman in their presidential runoff election, rebuffing a leftist movement that has held the presidency for over a decade while ushering in an economic boom and then a yearslong recession.

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