Peru

Following a tumultuous day, Peru has its first female president, Dina Boluarte, who replaced Pedro Castillo after he was dramatically ousted.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has issued a statement on Peru's new President.

LIMA – It was a day on which much of Peru was focused on Congress, where an impeachment vote was planned against the president on corruption charges.

Peru has sworn in a new president, Dina Boluarte, after a day of political drama that saw leftist leader Pedro Castillo arrested.

Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday Peru's ex-president Pedro Castillo called him on Wednesday to say he was going to Lima's ...

Her background is very different to that from Ms Fujimori, the daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, who grew up in the highest political circles in ...

The President of Peru has been forced out of office by an impeachment vote of the Country`s Congress, and he`s been arrested.

Attempting to use his get-out-of-jail-free card, he concedes he`s made mistakes but claims there was a concerted campaign of conspiracy against him, in part due to his humble origins as a peasant farmer turned teacher. He was going to dissolve Congress, impose a nightly curfew and form an emergency Administration. She`s appealing for calm and unity saying: "What I'm asking for is space and time to rescue the country."

Ms Boluarte, a 60-year-old former lawyer, became president almost by accident after her predecessor, Pedro Castillo, was impeached by Congress following his ...

Peru's ousted former president faces a court hearing on Thursday over his arrest while also being investigated for rebellion, as his replacement holds ...

Peru now has its sixth president in just five year. An expert on Latin American politics explores the country's political instability and what happens next.

LEFTWINGERS have condemned the coup against Peru's democratically elected president, Pedro Castillo, by lawmakers of the country's Congress on Wednesday.

Ousted Peruvian leader Pedro Castillo has been detained in a police prison in Lima where another former president, Alberto Fujimori, is also being held, ...

Court expected to decide if Pedro Castillo will be held in preliminary detention after failed attempt to close congress.

Peruvian lawmakers described the move as a coup, and a majority of the 130-person Congress voted to impeach Castillo on Wednesday. The former president was ...

LIMA, Peru — (AP) — Peru's stunning political crisis grinded forward Thursday, as former President Pedro Castillo appeared in court following a failed ...

Hearing comes a day after Pedro Castillo was impeached after attempting to dissolve congress.

Mexico has started consultations with Peruvian authorities regarding former President Pedro Castillo's request to seek asylum in the country, ...

Register for free to Reuters and know the full story [Earlier Thursday](/world/americas/mexico-president-says-perus-castillo-was-going-request-asylum-2022-12-08/), Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Castillo had called him Wednesday to say he was en route to the Mexican embassy in Peru to request asylum. Ebrard shared a copy of Castillo's asylum request written by his lawyer, in which the lawyer alleged Castillo was "at grave risk" in Peru and that he had suffered "unfounded persecution."

Leftwing lawyer, 60, was sworn in after serving as vice-president to Pedro Castillo, who now faces rebellion and conspiracy charges.

She was labelled a traitor by the party’s controversial leader “As a native of Apurímac, I cannot but remember José María Arguedas and, in his memory, I commit myself to fight so that the nobodies, the excluded and the outsiders have access to what they have always been denied,” she said in her acceptance speech. Amid years of instability and infighting which has seen the executive and legislative branches of government at loggerheads, she added: “We need the best Peruvians.

LIMA, Peru — (AP) — Peru's ousted President Pedro Castillo rose to power 17 months ago as a populist outsider. But he squandered what little popularity he ...

To remove the president requires two-thirds of the 130 lawmakers to vote in favor. López Obrador said Thursday that he had all but greenlighted Castillo’s request for asylum, made in a phone call Wednesday to the Mexican president’s office. But echoing the comments of Brazil's incoming president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Petro left no doubt that Castillo had brought the troubles upon himself. But he said those plans were frustrated when Castillo was intercepted by police on his way to the Mexican Embassy in Lima, where a group of protesters awaited. Then shortly before noon Wednesday, Castillo went on state television to announce the dissolution of Congress. She's the first woman to lead the South American country of 33 million and the only one fluent in Quechua, the Indigenous language spoken by Peru's poor. The effort failed, with only 55 votes in favor. Some Cabinet ministers resigned immediately, but the Supreme Court and Constitutional Tribunal rejected it as an attempted coup. The Biden administration condemned Castillo’s power grab as illegal and expressed support her Boluarte's call for a government of national unity. With polls showing Peruvians despising Congress even more than they do Castillo, Boluarte appealed for a “truce” from the political feuding that has paralyzed Peru for years. Late in the day a few hundred Castillo supporters marched peacefully toward the Congress, where they were blocked by riot police firing tear gas. Meanwhile, his successor, Dina Boluarte, began the difficult task of trying to rally Peruvians behind institutions gutted for years by endemic corruption and mistrust.