Crime
Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo sentenced to 20 years for corruption linked to Odebrecht construction
The verdict marks the first high profile Peruvian conviction related to Brazil’s continent wide Operation Car Wash investigation
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Politics
Peru's socialist president under investigation for influence peddling and 'criminal organization'
Although Castillo once enjoyed wide support among Peru’s rural poor, his support has evaporated in the months since he first took office
Politics
Peru's prime minister defends populist plan to redraft Constitution
"This bill is not unconstitutional at all, as many constitutionalists have said. I do not know where they got that idea from," he said
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'Dead' woman in Peru bangs on her coffin during her funeral
Rosa Isabel Cespedes Callaca was laid to rest on April 26 after she had died in a serious car accident in Peru
Crime
Peru: a child rapist's chilling confession leads to calls for chemical castration for child abusers
Juan Antonio Enriquez was arrested on April 16 after security cameras showed him abducting 3-year-old Damaris, forcibly placing her in his car before driving her back to his Chiclayo home and raping her
Business
Peru's annual inflation hit a 24-year high in April amid calls for socialist President Castillo to step down
Only 19% of the population supports the former schoolteacher and trade unionist who won the presidency under a “Marxist-Leninist” banner in June of 2021
Politics
Populist Playbook: Peru referendum would redraft market-friendly constitution
Changing the country’s constitution is “exactly what late Venezuelan authoritarian leader Hugo Chavez did immediately after taking office in 1999"
Crime
Peru discusses chemical castration for rapists after 'Chiclayo Monster' case
The country continues to be shocked by the confession of a cab driver who admitted to kidnapping and sexually abusing a 3-year-old girl
Health
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori hospitalized again
Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity after being extradited from Chile in 2007
Law Enforcement
Outrage in Peru: Taxi driver confesses to kidnapping and raping 3-year-old girl
Enriquez is already known throughout the Andean country as the “Monster of Chiclayo"
