PEDRO CASTILLO often began his campaign rallies by saying, “I come from el Perú profundo [the heartland, in effect], from a modest family.” He went on to tell his life story. Born in a remote village ...

More than a month after citizens went to the polls, Pedro Castillo has been named the winner of Peru’s presidential runoff. The former teacher ran as a champion of the populist left. As well as ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — A rural teacher-turned-political novice and the daughter of an imprisoned former president on Monday traded the lead in a close race for Peru's presidency in a runoff election as the ...

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 new leftist President Pedro Castillo was sworn into office last week. The inauguration came nearly six weeks after a historical run-off election. Castillo is a 51-year-old former rural school ...

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 ...

LIMA, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Peru's President Pedro Castillo swore in Mirtha Vasquez, a left-wing former head of Congress, as prime minister on Wednesday, replacing her predecessor who resigned after two ...

Peruvians are keenly focused on every move and utterance of their new president, Pedro Castillo, a previously little-known teacher from a Marxist party. But the real attention perhaps should go to the ...

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/CHUGUR, Peru, July 28 (Reuters) - As a boy in Peru's rural north, Pedro Castillo would help collect and crush cane on his family's small farm. Now he is president of the nation, an abrupt rise to ...

LIMA, Peru — 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 ...

Mr. Castillo, who has vowed to overhaul the political and economic system to address poverty and inequality, narrowly defeated the daughter of a jailed former president. By Mitra Taj and Julie ...