Peru

The Peruvian Congress on Wednesday installed 83-year-old Marxist lawmaker José María Balcázar as new interim president of Peru following the impeachment of former interim President José Jerí.

A court in Peru on Monday ruled that President José Jerí must comply with a psychological treatment for “psychosexual pathology” that he failed to submit himself to after he was accused of alleged rape in 2025.

The Communist Party of China declared on Thursday that it “strongly opposes and deplores” statements by the U.S. State Department’s Western Hemisphere Bureau lamenting a court case that could bring one of Peru’s most critical ports under control of a Party-linked corporate entity.

President of Peru Jose Jeri this week vowed that he will not resign from his position amid the ongoing scandal over his undisclosed meetings with a Chinese businessman known as “Chifagate.”

Illegal Chinese fishing vessels are causing close to $800 million in yearly damages to Peru’s fishing sector while threatening the country’s natural maritime resources, the Argentine-based outlet Infobae reported on Monday.

Violent overnight protests in Peru against the week-old government of Interim President José Jerí left one dead and over 100 injured, mostly police officers.

The Peruvian Congress voted on Friday morning to remove President Dina Boluarte from office, on the grounds that she was not dealing effectively with a crime wave sweeping the country.

Latin America, once fertile ground for China to sign “Belt and Road” infrastructure deals with poor countries, is turning its back on “crappy” construction projects that erode the sovereignty of local governments, a senior State Department official told Breitbart News.

A dog in Huaral, Peru, is getting lots of praise for taking swift action recently when its journalist owner was in danger.

Zetro Leonardo Purba, a 40-year-old Indonesian diplomat stationed in Peru, was assassinated on Monday right outside his apartment in Lima.

China and Brazil signed a memorandum of understanding, Chinese state media reported on Wednesday, to explore the possibility of jointly building a transcontinental railroad from the east coast of Brazil to the west coast of Peru – directly to a port funded and partially owned by Beijing.

Peruvians are enthusiastically celebrating the election on Thursday of Pope Leo XIV as the 267th Bishop of Rome.

President of Peru Dina Boluarte on Tuesday evening called for new general elections to be held on Sunday, April 12, 2026, to end the “period of instability” in the South American nation.

A regional poll found that Argentine President Javier Milei is the most popular head of state in South America.

Outgoing President Joe Biden is expected to conclude what will likely be his final major international trip as president this week, leaving Latin America following a series of embarrassing episodes including his bizarre departure into the Amazon Rainforest and G20 organizers omitting him from a group photo of world leaders on Monday.

Genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping sternly warned outgoing American President Joe Biden during what is expected to be their final in-person meeting of Biden’s tenure that “democracy and human rights” are a “red line” for communist China, meaning Beijing will accept no condemnation of its atrocities.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping began a week-long tour of South America on Thursday in Peru, where he joined President Dina Boularte to inaugurate a new deep-water port in Chancay that was financed with a $1.3 billion investment from China. 

Outgoing President Joe Biden will have what is believed to be his last in-person meeting with genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Saturday in Peru, where both leaders are expected to attend the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit.

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, credited for taking down the communist Shining Path insurgency in the 1990s but imprisoned for 25 years on charges of human rights abuses and corruption, died on Wednesday. He was 86.

The government of Peru announced on Tuesday that it is recognizing former diplomat Edmundo González as the president-elect of Venezuela.

The governments of Colombia and Peru reportedly began plans on Tuesday to reinforce their borders out of concern that the ongoing political chaos in Venezuela – triggered by a sham presidential election the White House pressured the country to hold – will prompt a new wave of mass migration.

Venezuela’s socialist Maduro regime broke ties with seven Latin American countries after their governments questioned the results of Sunday’s sham presidential election and dictator Nicolás Maduro’s “victory.”

The government of Peru signed a Supreme Decree this weekend defining transexuality as a mental disorder as part of an update to the nation’s Essential Health Insurance Plan (PEAS), prompting outrage from the LGBTQIAP2S+ community.

The man who allegedly confessed to killing Natalee Holloway in 2005 was recently attacked by two inmates in a Peruvian prison until guards intervened.

The persistent threat of an invasive fleet of illegal Chinese fishing ships in Latin American waters is depleting fish stocks.

A Peruvian national was arrested after allegedly calling in more than 150 bomb threats to schools, hospitals, and synagogues across five American states. 

A Peruvian businessman wanted in his own country over fraud charges connected to the country’s political elite is currently in U.S. custody after he illegally crossed the border into Texas. After crossing the border, the fugitive from Peru requested asylum.

Former Bud Light brand partner, Dylan Mulvaney, heads south of the border to “feel safe” among llamas in Machu Picchu, Peru.

Peruvian officials on Sunday announced they had intercepted 23 Afghans in the custody of migrant traffickers operating along the border with Brazil. The migrants included four children, one of them a two-month-old baby.

The main suspect in Natalee Holloway’s disappearance reportedly left Peru Thursday for the United States accompanied by federal agents.

Natalee Holloway’s mother, Beth Holloway, can finally find closure in the disappearance of her 18-year-old daughter, who went missing during a senior class trip to Aruba in 2005.

Police in Huancayo, Peru, freed a suspect identified as 42-year-old Walter César Solís Calero this weekend after officials at a local girls’ school found him, dressed in the school’s uniform and hiding behind a sanitary mask, in a school bathroom carrying a mobile phone.

The human rights organization Freedom House documented the smallest decline in number of countries becoming more authoritarian in 17 years in its 2023 report, a sign to be “optimistic” that a “turning point” has arrived in global liberty, report co-author Yana Gorokhovskaia told Breitbart News.