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Peru

August 2024

  • A wide shot of people sitting and standing on the sandy bank beside a river

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Uncontacted’ Indigenous group attacks loggers in the Peruvian Amazon

  • Portrait of Elon Musk with hands clasped

    Weekend
    Marina Hyde on the ‘brave’ inciters of Britain’s race riots; lightning struck my plane and I plunged 3,000m; the delights of the dead hang – podcast

  • Juliane Diller in 1972, arriving at Frankfurt airport to live a more peaceful life in Germany

    How we survive
    A bolt of lightning struck my plane – and I plunged 3,000m into a rainforest

  • Closeup of a midge on a person’s hand

    Outbreak of Oropouche virus in Brazil should be a ‘wake-up call’, say experts

July 2024

  • Graffiti reading 'PCC' is written on a yellow wall in front of a church building

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Crisis at Tres Fronteras: how criminal syndicates threaten Amazon’s future

  • people stand on the shore

    Uncontacted tribe seen in Peruvian Amazon where loggers are active

  • Early morning, Lake Atitlán, Santiago Atitlán 2019

    Still waters run deep: Latin American Foto festival – in pictures

  • This photo distributed by the Peruvian National Police shows police carrying a body that they identify as U.S. mountain climber William Stampfl, on Huascaran mountain in Huraz, Peru, July 5, 2024. Peruvian authorities announced on Tuesday, July 9, 2024, that they have found the mummified body of the American man who died 22 years ago, along with two other American climbers, after the three were trapped in an avalanche while trying to climb Peru's highest mountain. (Peruvian National Police via AP)

    US mountaineer buried by avalanche 22 years ago found preserved in ice, police say

June 2024

  • Beryl Knotts

    Other lives
    Beryl Knotts obituary

  • Three women, moved to tears, are interviewed by the press outside a court building in Lima.

    Peruvian soldiers found guilty of rapes committed during civil war in historic verdict

May 2024

  • A man wearing a brown plaid shirt, jeans, and a baseball hat poses in front of a cityscape.

    Rights and freedom
    Peruvian reporter is target of smear campaign after taking on political elite

  • Piles of red paper bags with black hexagons on them.

    Our unequal earth
    Latin America labels ultra-processed foods. Will the US follow?

  • Four grocery-store shelves filled with brightly colored bags of Doritos, mostly in shades of orange.

    Our unequal earth
    The US food industry has long buried the truth about their products. Is that coming to an end?

  • Woman dressed in pink suit holds necklace and sits with man in front of Peruvian flags

    Brother and lawyer of Peru president held as corruption inquiry widens

April 2024

  • Peru's President Dina Boluarte shows a piece of jewellery during a press conference. She has denied wrongdoing in the ‘Rolexgate’ scandal

    Peru’s embattled president dismisses ‘Rolexgate’ investigation as a ‘smoke-screen’

  • woman speaks into a microphone

    Peru president Dina Boluarte under pressure amid ‘Rolexgate’ scandal

March 2024

  • Police with riot gear stand guard in a street outside a building

    Home of Peru’s president raided in search of luxury watches

    The government criticised the move, with the country’s prime minister calling it ‘disproportionate and unconstitutional’
  • An azure lake sourrounded by steep mountains with snow-capped peaks in the background

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Andean alarm: climate crisis increases fears of glacial lake flood in Peru

    In 1941, thousands of people died in Huaraz when the natural dam on a lake above the city gave way. Now, melting glaciers are raising the chances of it happening again
  • Composite picture of a photo of a man using a scalpel to pick at a huge crocodile-like skull, and a drawing of adolphin in brown water seizing prey

    The age of extinction
    Scientists find skull of enormous ancient dolphin in Amazon

    Fossil of giant river dolphin found in Peru, whose closest living relation is in South Asia, gives clues to future extinction threats

February 2024

  • Floods submerge cities in central South America after extreme rainfall – video

    Brazil, Peru and Bolivia were badly affected by severe floods that displaced citizens, destroyed buildings and isolated entire cities
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