Peruvian Presidential candidates Keiko Fujimori of the far‑right Fuerza Popular party and Roberto Sánchez of the leftist tendency confronted their political and economic proposals on Sunday during the only official debate before Peru’s second‑round election scheduled for next Sunday, June 7. Fujimori defended the 1993 Constitution’s privatization of national resources and Sánchez questioned the current […]

Thousands of demonstrators marched through the historic center of Lima and other cities across the country on Saturday to protest against right‑wing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, who will face Roberto Sánchez in Peru’s second‑round election on June 7, with protesters carrying flags and photographs of missing relatives and chanting slogans such as “For justice and […]

Peru’s Congress, controlled by a group of conservative forces led by Fujimorism, votes on a motion to disqualify former left-wing PM Mirtha Vasquez . Peru’s Congress will evaluate a motion to disqualify former Prime Minister Mirtha Vasquez from her Senate candidacy, a step her Now Nation Party (Ahora Nacion, in Spanish) has condemned as “political prosecution” calling […]

Peru’s Congress approved the discussion of several motions to oust President Dina Boluarte Zegarra, following the submission and endorsement of five proposals seeking to declare her unfit to carry out presidential duties, amid a crisis marked by violence, the repression of protests by transport workers, and unanswered demands from Indigenous and social organizations throughout her […]