Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peru's former president of the Congress Jose Jeri, sings the national anthem after being sworn-in as the interim president in Lima ...

On the outskirts of Lima, Peru, stands a prison facility like no other. Its latest inmate transferred last month is a former president, like all others who have been imprisoned in Barbadillo. Five ...

Peru’s level of political corruption has reached a point where the nation has its own prison for former presidents. Fujimori’s father, Alberto Fujimori, was the facility’s first resident. New Peruvian ...

The Constitutional Court of Peru (TC) approved on Wednesday a five-year extension for reducing overcrowding of the nation’s prisons. The resolution, issued in 2020 and set to expire on Tuesday, was ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian court on Wednesday sentenced former President Martín Vizcarra to 14 years in prison after finding him guilty of taking bribes while serving as governor of a southern state ...

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Nine inmates were killed and scores of guards wounded when rioting broke out at a prison in Lima after two inmates died from COVID-19, authorities in Peru said Tuesday. The riot broke out Monday at ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peruvian presidential candidate Roberto Sanchez of the left-wing party Juntos por el Peru speaks during a political rally in ...

LIMA, Peru — In one of his first acts as interim president of Peru, José Jerí on Saturday led a series of raids on prisons holding gang leaders nationwide, the presidency said, a day after the ouster ...