Halting efforts to promote the Quechua language hit the spotlight last month when Peru’s new prime minister surprised the nation by delivering a speech in the Indigenous ...

A leftist political novice who has promised to be a champion of his country’s poor has been sworn in as Peru’s new president.

A teacher in one of the poorest communities in the Andes who has never held office is now Peru’s president-elect after officials in the South American country declared hi...