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Demonstrators clash with police during overnight protests against President Jose Jeri, as Gen Z activists, transport workers and civil groups rally against corruption and rising crime, in Arequipa, Peru 15 October, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Oswald Charca

One dead, dozens injured as Peru's new president faces widespread protests

The government will declare a state of emergency in Lima within hours and is preparing a package of measures to tackle rising insecurity, Prime Minister Ernesto Alvarez said yesterday in a press...

A demonstrator holds a poster as police officers stand guard during a protest against the government of Peru's President Dina Boluarte after Congress approved a partial withdrawal of private pension savings, a measure which could leave millions of Peruvians without retirement funds, in Lima, Peru, September 20, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda/File Photo

Peru's Gen Z rallies against President Boluarte, protesting over pensions and corruption

The youth-led "Generation Z" collective led another march toward the seat of President Dina Boluarte's administration in downtown Lima recently. Photo: BSS/AFP

Peru marks second day of violent anti-government protests

Informal artisanal miners protest outside the Congress to pressure the Peruvian government to extend the deadline to formalize informal mining operations, in Lima, Peru July 3, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Gerardo Marin/File Photo

Peruvian informal miners suspend talks with government due to disagreements in negotiations

Peruvian farmer Saul Luciano Lliuya, who is suing German energy utility RWE, arguing that the company’s emissions have contributed to the melting of Andean glaciers, poses for a photo in front of Lake Palcacocha, before the verdict of the high regional German court in Hamm, in Huaraz, Peru May 27, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Angela Ponce

German court to rule on Peruvian farmer versus RWE climate case

A man holds a sign that reads: "The Pope has eaten here. Blessed food, food with faith", outside "Las Americas" restaurant, following the election of Pope Leo XIV, who is a dual U.S.-Peruvian citizen, in Chiclayo, Peru, May 9, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda

In Peru's north, locals remember Pope Leo driving pick-up, playing tennis

Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer and Nobel Prize winner, dressed in the traditional attire of French Academicians, leaves following the ceremony during which he was inducted into the Academie Francaise (French Academy) as an 'immortal' member at the Institut de France in Paris, France, February 9, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier/File Photo

Peruvian writer and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa dies aged 89

Saul Luciano Lliuya, who is pursuing a lawsuit against German energy utility RWE, whose emissions he says have contributed to the melting of Andean glaciers, swelling a lake above his hometown to dangerous levels, is pictured in his home, in Huaraz, Peru March 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Angela Ponce/File Photo

Peruvian farmer takes German energy giant RWE to court in landmark climate case

A drone view shows cranes at a megaport in Chancay, Peru October 24, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Angela Ponce/File Photo

Peru's economy seen growing 4% this year with stable inflation

Peru's conservative Keiko Fujimori addresses the media in Lima, Peru July 19, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda/File Photo

Peru judge throws out Keiko Fujimori's money laundering trial

The headquarters of Petroleos del Peru (Petroperu), a state company dedicated to the refining, distribution and marketing of fuels, is seen at the district of San Isidro in Lima, Peru, May 4, 2017. Photo: REUTERS

Peru declares environmental emergency after oil spill

A specimen of spiny mouse (Scolomys sp.), a species discovered on a Conservation International Rapid Assessment expedition into the Alto Mayo Landscape in Peru, is pictured, June 16, 2022. Conservation International/photo by Ronald Diaz/Handout via REUTERS

'Amphibious mouse' among 27 new species discovered in Peru's Amazon

Peru's President Dina Boluarte welcomes Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, in Lima, Peru November 17, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Angela Ponce

Peru, Japan strengthen ties with defence and mining agreements