Peru News

In the latest indignity suffered by a one-time strongman called to account for his crimes, former President Alberto Fujimori was convicted Monday of paying off his former spymaster in 2000 with $15 million of public funds.

A Peruvian court on Monday absolved the former mayor of a jungle city in the 2004 killing of a reporter who accused him of cocaine trafficking.

A colony of sea lions endemic to the Galapagos Islands have moved 1,500km away, a Peru-based organisation which monitors the aquatic mammals has said.

Some 5,600 cases of respiratory infections among infants under 5-year-olds were registered on Wednesday in Peru's southern Puno region, the regional health authorities said.

New York, Feb 6 : The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is rushing veterinary care to the rural population in the Peruvian Andes, where the Government has declared a state of emergency after two weeks of heavy rains.

January 28, 2010a ' A thousand-year-old temple complex has been found under the windswept dunes of northwestern Peru , archaeologists say.

The evacuation of stranded tourists and others from Machu Picchu is over, but the famous Inca site will remain inaccessible for weeks and possibly months as work goes on to clean up the landslides and rebuild the railway link to Cuzco.

As most of you know my wife and I support an orphanage outside of Cusco, Peru from where we adopted our son.

Authorities say heavy flooding in southern Peru, which trapped thousands of tourists visiting the Inca city of Machu Picchu, has killed 20 people and left at least five missing.

Deep in a valley where Peru's snow-capped Andes melt into Amazon jungle, Wilder Diaz Angulo cuts open a football-sized cocoa pod and separates precious brown beans from their fleshy white placentas.

The farmer takes care not to damage a single bean. That would hurt his chances of getting the best price for the specialty organic cocoa his cooperative sells for export to high-end chocolate retailers in Europe and the United States.

Life is calmer now that Mr. Angulo sells cocoa instead of coca.

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At least 20 people are dead and five others missing in flooding in Peru that has affected nearly 40,000 people, authorities said.

Two Canadians caught in mudslides and violent floods while on a vacation in the jungles of Peru expect to leave the country Sunday.

At least 18 people died in Peru when the bus they were travelling in fell down a 80-metre-high ravine in the central Peruvian region of Huancavelica, police said Friday.

Peruvian authorities have completed the evacuation of thousands of tourists stranded for days by mudslides and flooding near Machu Picchu, the Government said.

Eighteen people were killed and 22 seriously injured when the bus in which they were travelling veered off the road and fell into into a deep gorge in southern Peru.

Lima, Jan 29 Peruvian authorities in the central Andean region of Huancavelica confirmed Friday they rescued 18 bodies of the bus that fell down a deep abyss.

Tourists gather at a local stadium waiting to be evacuated by rescue helicopters from Machu Picchu Pueblo, in Cuzco At least 29 New Zealanders are still trapped by destructive flooding in Peru, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade .

Workers repair the train tracks in the Machu Picchu Pueblo archeological site in Cuzco, Peru Thursday, Jan.

Skies cleared over the fabled Machu Picchu citadel Thursday, speeding the evacuation of stranded tourists, many of whom were left to eat from communal pots and sleep outdoors after weekend flooding and mudslides cut access to the area.