Peru consolidates position as world's best cultural and culinary destination

These awards highlight the South American country's ongoing efforts to preserve and share its cultural and culinary diversity. It is worth noting that our wonder of the world is the first tourist destination to achieve international carbon-neutral …

Peru: Country at 156 basis points, below region's average

In the same period, the EMBIG Latin America spread increased 4 bps from 450 to 454. The country risk measures the ability of a country to meet its financial obligations and the implicit political risk and, based on that, receives an international credit …

A horrible murder compounded by police negligence: How Sheyla Cóndor was killed in Peru

A 26-year-old woman named Sheyla Mayumi Cóndor Torres went missing last Wednesday. She left her home in the Santa Anita district, east of Lima, and strangely did not show up at her uncle and aunt’s restaurant, where she worked as a cashier. Her family …

Ex-members of Peru group describe psychological, physical toll of abuse

ROME – Former members of a Peru-based women’s lay group have described a legacy of psychological and physical damage resulting from what they describe as a pattern of abuse within the group, saying a strikingly high percentage of members ended up visiting …

Survivors blast papal meeting with duo linked to scandal-plagued Peru group

ROME – After first threatening to excommunicate two Peruvian laypeople for filing criminal charges against a papal investigator, Pope Francis apparently met with the pair over the weekend and annulled their excommunication decree, though it remains unclear …

The new port connecting Peru and China, bridging continents and cultures

A view of Chancay Port in Peru on November 14 (XINHUA) November ushers in early summer in the southern hemisphere. In Peru's capital Lima, billboards and slogans decorate the facades of houses of varying sizes while vendors call out to bustling crowds. …

Bus carrying Peru high schoolers careens off cliff, kills 11

Eleven people are dead after a bus full of students, teachers and parents plunged off a cliffside road in Peru, authorities said Sunday. According to Peru’s Andina news agency, the bus — carrying 57 people — collided head on with a van before veering off …

APEC Peru 2024 successfully fended off more than half a million cyberattacks

"We met the cybersecurity standards set forth to protect APEC Peru 2024 critical systems, so that leaders, delegations, and media could have uninterrupted access to all the IT resources during the Economic Leaders’ Week, including websites, the …

Hundreds more Nazca Lines emerge in Peru's desert

Gouged into a barren stretch of pampa in southern Peru, the Nazca Lines are one of archaeology’s most perplexing mysteries. On the floor of the coastal desert, the shallow markings look like simple furrows. But from the air, hundreds of feet up, they morph …

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