The easiest thing might have been to let go. To refresh the flowers at her husband’s grave and find comfort in retrieving his bones, a milestone in a country where 20,000 people disappeared between 1980 and 2000.

Thousands of people have disappeared in Latin America during decades-long conflicts. Many have never been found, presumed to be the victims of dictatorships, insurgencies or organized crime. The most well-known of these mass disappearances occurred in Argentina and Chile during their military dictatorships.

Paleontologists in Peru have uncovered a remarkable 9-million-year-old fossil, which belonged to an ancestor of the great white shark. This ancient predator once roamed the southern Pacific Ocean, preying on sardines.

Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once inhabited the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean, where it liked to devour sardines.

After news leaked in recent days about the suppression of a scandal-plagued Peruvian lay group, the community has condemned the leak and pledged obedience to the pope and to the official charged with overseeing the dissolution.

Peru is facing its worst public safety crisis in recent memory, with top government officials blaming transnational criminal organizations for the chaos and violence that’s also roiling neighbors Ecuador and Colombia.

Gaston Medina previously told the Committee to Protect Journalists he received death threats related to his reporting.

Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae.

Peru's gross domestic product expanded 3.93% in November compared with the same month of 2023, marking the eighth-consecutive month of economic expansion, the South American government's INEI statistics agency said on Wednesday.

DP World is considering a significant investment of over $1 billion to develop port infrastructure in Peru. The plan, discussed during a meeting between President Dina Boluarte and DP World's CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem,

A poster of a theater play to be presented by students of a Catholic university in Lima, which combines religious symbols with the figure of a man wearing female clothes, is spurring outrage in Peru.

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