How Peru’s Legislature is Allowing Organized Crime to Thrive,” details how recent legislative actions and decisions by ...

Secretary-General Gonzalo Gutierrez expressed his sorrow over the <a href=" passing of former Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde.

The American press has made much of the fact that the new head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Prevost), is the first American pope—a major development in the history of the ...

By Amanda Chaparro (Lima (Peru) correspondent) Published on March 22, 2025, at 3:22 am (Paris), updated on March 29, 2025, at 4:42 pm 3 min read Lire en français ...

The economy improved in the 1990s following the end of the civil war, and the government, then led by Alberto Fujimori, initiated a series of system-wide investments in transportation ...

Few newspapers in the U.S. covered in depth the passing of Alberto Fujimori — President of Peru from 1990-2000 — on Sept. 11. The story got buried beneath an avalanche of headlines: a ...

For those unfamiliar with Peru’s history, it is important to understand the context in which Fujimori came to power. In 1990, the country faced a catastrophic economic crisis, with 7,000% ...

Mr Fujimori claimed he paved the way for Peru to become one of the leading countries of Latin America. As he turned 80 in 2018, he told AFP: “Let history judge what I got right and what I got ...

Former Peru’s President (1990-2000) Alberto Fujimori sits between his children Kenji (L) and Keiko upon his release from the Barbadillo prison in the eastern outskirts of Lima, on December 6, 2023.

During Fujimori's 1990-2000 rule, government forces cracked down hard on insurgents, particularly Maoist Shining Path rebels, whose war with the state between 1980 and 2000 left more than 69,000 ...

Peru's former president Alberto Fujimori, who ruled his country with an iron fist and then spent 16 years in prison for crimes against humanity, died on Wednesday at age 86 in the capital Lima.