The most violent period in Peru’s history still brings sorrow among the thousands who lost loved ones between 1980 and 2000.

Vanesa Escobar is a JURIST correspondent in Peru and a law graduate of Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco.  On December 10th Peru suffered yet another murder. This time, however, the ...

Dancers and drummers paraded through the streets of Lima on Wednesday as members of Peru's Chinese community celebrated the ...

Dozens of Venezuelan citizens gathered this Friday, for the second consecutive day, in front of their country's embassy in ...

“Here in Peru people like ‘different’ [cultures and cuisines], and being Jewish in Peru is very different,” Trapunsky said. “And I really enjoy having a bakery that exists at the ...

Thousands of people have disappeared in Latin America during decades-long conflicts. Many have never been found, presumed to ...

Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae ...

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Gaston Medina previously told the Committee to Protect Journalists he received death threats related to his reporting.

Although hundreds of people have disappeared for other motives since then, the Truth Commission said this was the most violent period in Peru’s history. More than 69,000 people are counted as ...