LIMA (AFP) – The profile is often the same: European, often young and female, and facing hard economic choices. A perfect mark for Peruvian cocaine traffickers seeking couriers. Peruvian authorities ...

Between 2009 and 2014, cultural anthropologist Krista Van Vleet spent sixteen months observing a unique Peruvian orphanage called Palomitáy. Palomitáy, in the highland city of Cusco, does not function ...

The San Jose Earthquakes have signed Peruvian left-back Marcos Lopez. The player's former club, Peruvian side Sporting Cristal, made the announcement via its Twitter feed, and a league source ...

CHULUCANAS, Peru (Reuters) - Hector Camacho remembers Robert Prevost, set to be formally inaugurated as Pope Leo XIV on Sunday, as a young jeans-wearing missionary from Chicago with broken Spanish, ...

The 43 Malaysians rescued from a human trafficking syndicate operating a telecommunication fraud in Peru were young people who had arrived in Lima just a week earlier, Malaysian police said Tuesday.

Pau* was 11 years old when she and her mother left their native Venezuela to make the exhausting overland journey to Peru. For Pau, the transition was a difficult one. At her new school in the ...

Almost two weeks after thousands of young workers and students marched to protest Peru’s new “Youth Labor Law,” President Ollanta Humala summoned an extraordinary session of the country’s Congress in ...

QUINUA, Peru (AP) — This rural hamlet nestled high in the Peruvian Andes was the site of a major battle that secured South America’s independence from Spain in the 19th century. But on Saturday, the ...

WOODBURY, Minn. – It was the first day of her freshman year at the University of Mary in Bismarck, and Amelia Gold’s stomach was grumbling. So she risked asking a fellow student she’d just met at ...

Hector Camacho remembers Robert Prevost, set to be formally inaugurated as Pope Leo XIV on Sunday, as a young jeans-wearing missionary from Chicago with broken Spanish, landing in Peru at a time when ...