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Challenges mount against Peru's president, his family

President Pedro Castillo’s surprise election brought hopes for change in Peru’s unstable and corrupt political system, but the impoverished rural teacher and political neophyte has found himself so engulfed in impeachment votes and corruption allegations that his presidency has become an exercise in political survival.

Peru's ex-presidential candidate Fujimori announces divorce

Former Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori has revealed she is ending her marriage to her Peruvian-American husband, Mark Villanella

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Rights court orders Peru not to release jailed ex-president

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ordered Peru to “refrain” from releasing imprisoned former president Alberto Fujimori despite a ruling by the South American country’s Constitutional Court that he be freed

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Peru imposes, then withdraws curfew to quell price protests

Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has lifted a curfew he had decreed less than a day earlier in the country’s capital and its main port in a bid to quell sometimes violent protests over rising fuel and food prices.

Peru judge bars Fujimori from leaving country once released

A Peruvian judge has banned former President Alberto Fujimori from leaving the country for 18 months as soon as he leaves a prison where he has been serving a 25-year sentence for murder.

Peru court orders ex-President Fujimori freed from prison

The decision restores a humanitarian pardon even though authorities gave no indication the former president's release was imminent.

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Peruvian court OKs prison release for ex-President Fujimori

Peru's Constitutional Court has approved the release from prison of former President Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year sentence for murder and corruption charges.

Quechua endures in Peru despite centuries of discrimination

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 tongue to Congress for the first time in Peru’s history.

Leftist political novice sworn in as Peru's president

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.

Leftist teacher, political novice, is Peru's president-elect

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 him the winner of a runoff election held last month.

Leftist teacher inches toward victory in disputed Peru vote

Peru has finished tallying votes in the country’s tight presidential contest but no winner has been declared, with electoral authorities saying they are scrutinizing a small number of ballots amid unproven claims of possible vote tampering leveled by the apparent loser.

Peru's presidential runoff election too close to call

A rural teacher-turned-political novice and the daughter of an imprisoned former president have traded the lead in a tight race for Peru's presidency.

2 polarizing populists vie in Peru's presidential runoff

Peruvian voters faced a choice between two polarizing populist candidates during Sunday's presidential runoff.

Charges, communism, COVID-19 and a controversial name in Peruvian politics define an election

Sunday's presidential election in Peru comes as many citizens are losing hope for their economy and their democracy.

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Peruvians to pick new president amid relentless pandemic

Peruvians are set to pick a new president amid a relentless coronavirus pandemic that has even pushed cemeteries in the South American nation beyond capacity.

In Peru’s pandemic election, a rural schoolteacher challenges a political dynasty

Polls show first-time candidate Pedro Castillo leading presidential daughter and former first lady Keiko Fujimori.

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How Did Peru Come to This?

In a nation once marked by its successful fight against poverty, voters now face a pair of unappealing alternatives.

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Students' struggles pushed Peru teacher to run for president

As schools across Peru closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, Pedro Castillo tried to find a way to keep classes going for his 20 fifth- and sixth-grade students.

Ecuador picks conservative for president; Peru sets runoff

Ecuador will be led for the next four years by a conservative businessman after voters rebuffed a left-leaning movement that yielded an economic boom and then a recession since taking hold of the presidency last decade.

Ecuador goes with conservative banker in presidential vote

Voters in Ecuador appear to have turned to a conservative businessman in their presidential runoff election, rebuffing a leftist movement that has held the presidency for over a decade while ushering in an economic boom and then a yearslong recession.

Ecuador, Peru to elect presidents amid strengthened pandemic

A surging pandemic that has brought new lockdown measures has pushed the upcoming elections to the background for many weary voters in the neighboring South American nations of Ecuador and Peru.

In Peru, sterilization case against Fujimori goes to court

FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2013 file photo, jailed former President Alberto Fujimori attends his hearing at a police base on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. Fujimori has been implicated in the deaths of five women and the injuries of another 1,301 women who were allegedly sterilized against their will. As president, Fujimori announced at a congress in China in 1995 that his government would undertake a program to help poor Peruvian women decide the number of children they wanted to have. But the program was so controversial that the U.S. Congress cut aid payments to Peru that had been used to fund the program. Fujimori had boasted that the sterilization program dropped Peru’s birth rate from 3.7 children per woman in 1990 to 2.7 children a decade later.

Latin America watches with alarm as extremists breach U.S. Capitol

In Latin America, a region not unfamiliar with assaults on democracy, the attack by pro-Trump extremists on the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday prompted widespread alarm —and dark reminders of political upheaval in the region. The phrase “GolpeDeEstadoEnEEUU,” (“coup d’état in the United States”), was trending on Twitter as analysts and others likened the political chaos in Washington to historical and contemporary unrest in their homelands. “The U.S. became part of Latin America,” Lester Ramírez, of the Assn. Advertisement“Authoritarianism is the rule here,” Ramírez said, and now the United States was getting a taste. ... Extremes are the principal threat against democracy.”Some polls have shown a decline in U.S. popularity in much of Latin America since Trump took office.

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Peru's Congress selects centrist lawmaker to be new leader

Peru's new interim President Francisco Sagasti waves to the crowd after he was designated by Congress to lead the nation, in Lima, Peru, Monday, Nov. 16, 2020. Congress chose Sagasti to become the nation's third president in the span of a week after Congress ousted Martin Vizcarra and the following protests forced his successor Manuel Merino to resign. People waved the nation's red-and-white flag and blared horns outside the gates of Congress as Francisco Sagasti of the centrist Purple Party was selected the legislature's new president. Shortly after the vote, he took an oath to become Congress' president. In his speech before Congress, Sagasti recognized the deep wounds the legislature must work to repair before the election.

Peru ouster throws nation's anti-corruption drive into doubt

On Tuesday, Peru swore in Manuel Merino as president, after Perus legislature booted Vizcarra from office on Monday. Vizcarra dissolved Congress last year after lawmakers repeatedly stonewalled efforts to curb graft and reform the judiciary. Furious at his removal Monday, thousands have taken to the streets daily in protest, refusing to recognize the new government. The Organization of American States said Wednesday it is “deeply worried” about the upheaval in Peru. “That has created a political culture of corruption that now people are rejecting.”University student Violeta Mejia said many are simply fed up.

Spread of coronavirus fuels corruption in Latin America

Even amid a global pandemic, theres no sign that corruption is slowing down in Latin America. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)MIAMI Even in a pandemic, there's no slowdown for swindlers in Latin America. Coronavirus clusters are still spreading in Latin America, fueling a spike in deaths, swamping already-precarious hospitals and threatening to ravage slumping economies. To be sure, disasters breed corruption all over the world, not just in Latin America. But stealing state funds is especially vexing in Latin America because of gaping poverty and a tattered social safety net.

Tied down and sterilized: Perus dark history of family planning

She changed her mind in the operating room the next day, but nurses tied her arms and legs to a bed and blindfolded her. As of September, nearly 7,500 people 96% of them women had joined a government registry claiming they never consented. Peruvian women should be the owners of their destiny! Fujimori declared in a 1995 speech to congress. Advertisement::Almost from the beginning, the family program was dogged by complaints that women were being coerced. This program affected women who were farmworkers, the poorest, with the least education, and thats why the state doesnt help them, Goytizolo said.

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