Pedro Alonso López, the “Monster of the Andes,” confessed to killing hundreds of young girls across South America - yet ...

Pedro Alonso López, known as the "Monster of the Andes", once claimed to have strangled hundreds of young girls across ...

Disarming Disinformation initiative is a three-year programme, supported by the Scripps Howard Foundation, that aims to slow ...

Women in Indigenous communities living near artisanal and small-scale gold mining operations in Peru and Nicaragua have high levels of mercury in their hair, a new analysis suggests. Researchers say ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Peru’s lawmakers swore in Congress chief Jose Jeri as the country’s new president less than an hour after unanimously voting to remove President Dina Boluarte, as anger mounted over rising crime and ...

Peru’s Congress ousted President Dina Boluarte from power in the latest round of political turmoil in the Andean nation. Boluarte was impeached Friday by opposition lawmakers on grounds of “moral ...

Lima, Peru — Peru's Congress voted unanimously early Friday to remove deeply unpopular President Dina Boluarte from office as a crime wave grips the South American nation. Lawmakers had set up a ...

Dina Boluarte, the president of Peru, was removed from office on Thursday after a late-night congressional vote in which parties across the political spectrum called for her ouster. Boluarte has been ...

Peru’s Congress voted early Friday to remove deeply unpopular President Dina Boluarte from office amid worsening crime and allegations of personal corruption, the latest turn in the country’s ...

A Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 secret mistresses has handed in his resignation after reportedly being exposed by his cleaning lady. Ciro Quispe López, 51, the bishop of Juli in Peru, resigned ...