José María Balcázar becomes Peru’s interim leader

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s Congress late Wednesday elected legislator José María Balcázar as the country’s eighth president…
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Peru’s Congress sacks José Jeri, the nation’s seventh president in a decade

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s Congress voted Tuesday to remove interim President José Jerí from office as he…
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Peru breaks diplomatic relations with Mexico over Bettsy Chavez asylum claim

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s government on Monday announced the country was severing diplomatic relations with Mexico over…
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Peru anti-government protests spread, with clashes in Cusco

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Protests against Peruvian President Dina Boluarte’s government that have left 47 people dead since they began a month ago spread through the south of the Andean country on Wednesday with new clashes reported in the tourist city of Cusco.

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Anger in rural areas fuels protests against Peru government

ANDAHUAYLAS, Peru (AP) — The anger of Peruvians against their government is nowhere more visible than in Andahuaylas, a remote rural Andean community where the poor have struggled for years and where voters' support helped elect now-ousted President Pedro Castillo, himself a peasant like them.

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Peru's ex-president faced bigotry for impoverished past

LIMA, Peru (AP) — When Pedro Castillo won Peru’s presidency last year, it was celebrated as a victory by the country’s poor — the peasants and Indigenous people who live deep in the Andes and whose struggles had long been ignored.

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New Peru president appears with military to cement power

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's first female president appeared in a military ceremony on national television on Friday in her first official event as head of state, an attempt to cement her hold on power and buck the national trend of early presidential departures.

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Rapid fall from power, arrest for embattled Peru president

LIMA, Peru (AP) — In just three tumultuous hours, President Pedro Castillo went from decreeing the dissolution of Peru’s Congress to being replaced by his vice president , but the threats against his government had been building throughout his nearly 17-month presidency.

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Peru's president ousted by Congress in political crisis

LIMA, Peru (AP) — The president of Peru was ousted by Congress and arrested on a charge of rebellion Wednesday after he sought to dissolve the legislative body and take unilateral control of the government, triggering a grave constitutional crisis.

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