Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Tuesday called for general elections to be held on April 12, 2026, saying she hoped the ...

LIMA, Peru — Peruvian President Dina Boluarte said Tuesday the country will hold general elections one year from now in an effort to end years of instability. The deeply unpopular Boularte said ...

Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has ended a four-day hunger strike that he began in protest of his trial on rebellion and other charges, judicial authorities announced Friday.

Peruvians will head to the polls to elect their next president, as well as deputies, senators and representatives to the Andean Parliament. In the past six years, Peru has seen six different ...

President Dina Boluarte also floated the possibility of extending the use of the death penalty in Peru to address the country’s security problems. The declaration and Boluarte’s statements ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo was taken from prison to a hospital on Thursday, three days after he began a hunger strike in protest of his ongoing rebellion trial.

Lima (AFP) – Peru's ousted ex-president Pedro Castillo, on trial for rebellion, has been hospitalized four days after declaring a hunger strike, the judge in his case said Thursday. Castillo ...

The removal of Castillo, Peru’s first Indigenous president, had sparked large protests in the south of the country, in which at least 49 people were killed in the weeks following his ouster.