He's a former army officer who was linked to a 2000 military uprising and accused of being an extreme leftist. She's the daughter of a former president who's serving a 25-year sentence for human rights violations. About the only thing they have in common is that they both want to be the next president of Peru.
The global war on drugs has failed, a high-level commission comprised of former presidents, public intellectuals and other leaders studying drug policies concluded in a report released Thursday.
The Global Commission on Drug Policy says the war on drugs can't be won and governments should change current drug laws.
Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa is injecting his cachet as a newly minted Nobel Prize winner into the political sphere, in a strong criticism of the political aspirations of the daughter of a disgraced former president.
Peruvian President Alan Garcia on Monday asked congress to overturn his own controversial presidential decree that critics said would have provided amnesty to human rights violators.
The goodwill ambassador meets one-on-one with quake victims, including a 10-year-old who lost his leg
She heads to the devastated country following a visit with survivors in a Dominican Republic hospital
Peruvian authorities say they have arrested four members of a gang that specialized in selling to European labs fat obtained from dead humans.
Famed Uruguayan author Mario Benedetti died at his home in Montevideo, Uruguay, on Sunday, his personal secretary, Ariel Silva, told CNN.
THE underground economy, also called the informal, invisible, or black economy, is regarded around the world as a refuge of drug traffickers, smugglers, and tax evaders. Now a new view is taking ho...
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