The Latest Breaking News from Peru

Peruvian priest regarded as ‘the father of liberation theology’

With a gun in hand, Colonel Victor Revoredo and his team watched a small house where one of the most wanted criminals in Trujillo, the epicenter of extortion in northern Peru, could be hiding.

Former leader convicted of taking $35m in bribes from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht

Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo has been sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a case involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, which became synonymous with corruption across Latin America, where it paid millions of dollars in bribes to government officials and others

Extortion rackets killed seven people in less than 12 hours in Lima recently, despite a two-month state of emergency

Hopes for box office hit for another unlikely combo after disappointing summer

Third film to have new director and new cast member

The government is auctioning off plots of pristine Indigenous reserves for fossil fuel projects, with campaigners warning of a ‘silent genocide’

Calf problem ruled forward out of Selecao’s win over Peru