A court in Peru sentenced former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo to more than 11 years in prison on Thursday. In a two-to-one vote, the Special Criminal Chamber of Peru’s Supreme Court found him ...

El general Óscar Arriola no descartó que el gobernador regional del Callao haya salido del país tras encontrarse como no habido desde hace unos días.

STORY: After a week of violent protests following the ouster of former president Pedro Castillo, Peru's defense minister on Wednesday announced a nationwide state of emergency. The 30-day declaration ...

Peru's Supreme Court sentenced former President Pedro Castillo to 11.5 years in prison for conspiracy to commit a rebellion in 2022, when he tried to dissolve the Congress as lawmakers prepared to ...

A court in Peru has sentenced former President Pedro Castillo to 11 years, five months and 15 days in prison for seeking to dissolve Congress. The decision on Thursday came nearly three years after ...

Peru’s recent impeachment of President Pedro Castillo represents an opportunity for the U.S. to reset its geopolitical and economic relations with one of its most important allies in Latin America.

Castillo has four identities. Together, they make him a very unusual president. Castillo is a peasant farmer from a northern region of Peru called Cajamarca. There are very important gold mines there, ...

Rural teacher-turned-political novice Pedro Castillo on Monday became the winner of Peru's presidential election after the country's longest electoral count in 40 years. Castillo, whose supporters ...

LIMA, Peru — A teacher in one of the poorest communities in the Andes who had never held office is now Peru’s president-elect after officials in the South American country declared him the winner of a ...

Peru's president-elect, Pedro Castillo, waves as he leaves his home in Lima on Thursday. (Sebastian Castaneda/Reuters) Peru’s fragile democracy was subjected to an extreme test last month when a ...

WHEN HE TOOK office as Peru’s president on July 28th, the bicentenary of the country’s independence, Pedro Castillo declared that he would not govern from the presidential palace. Built on the site of ...

LIMA/TACABAMBA, Peru, June 7 (Reuters) - Peruvian socialist Pedro Castillo widened his lead against right-wing rival Keiko Fujimori in the country’s presidential vote on Monday, but she said she will ...