Mummy found in Peru could be 5,000 years old

found 2025 › Apr › 25 (Fri) @ 12:50 UTC

a story from Al Jazeera › Al Jazeera English

Archaeologists have uncovered the preserved body of a woman, who they believe is up to five thousand years old.

Grassroots activists who took on corruption and corporate power share 2025 Goldman prize

found 2025 › Apr › 21 (Mon) @ 08:35 UTC

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Seven winners of environmental prize include Amazonian river campaigner and Tunisian who fought against organised waste trafficking

Indigenous river campaigner from Peru honoured

Grassroots activists w…

Indigenous river campaigner from Peru wins prestigious Goldman prize

found 2025 › Apr › 21 (Mon) @ 08:35 UTC

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Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari led a successful legal battle to protect the Marañon River in the Peruvian Amazon

Prize recognises seven activists fighting corporate power

An Indigenous campaigner and wome…

Peru's ex-president and first lady sentenced to 15 years in prison

found 2025 › Apr › 16 (Wed) @ 20:10 UTC

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A court ruled that Humala, who governed Peru from 2011 to 2016, took illegal campaign contributions.

Peru jails ex-president Humala for 15 years over money laundering

found 2025 › Apr › 16 (Wed) @ 09:15 UTC

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Judges also order jailing of Nadine Heredia, Humala's wife, in the same case but she flees to Brazil with her son.

Ex-Peru president Ollanta Humala given 15-year sentence for money laundering

found 2025 › Apr › 15 (Tue) @ 19:25 UTC

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Sentenced with wife Nadine Heredia, Humala is third president of Peru imprisoned for corruption in past 20 years

A Peruvian court has sentenced former president Ollanta Humala and his wife, Nadine Her…

‘We waited greedily for his novels’: Mario Vargas Llosa, a revolutionary of Spanish-language fiction

found 2025 › Apr › 14 (Mon) @ 16:55 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

His breakthrough book was deemed too inflammatory to be taught in my school, and was burned by authorities, but this Peruvian firebrand would reveal himself to be a man of contradictions

The early 196…

Hundreds of Catholics in Peru and Guatemala mark Palm Sunday

found 2025 › Apr › 14 (Mon) @ 15:45 UTC

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Peru's Catholics celebrated Palm Sunday with a procession that commemorates the Christian belief of the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem.

Peru mourns death of literary giant Mario Vargas Llosa

found 2025 › Apr › 14 (Mon) @ 14:20 UTC

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The writer was a leading light in the 20th-century Latin American literature boom and has won a Nobel Prize.

Mario Vargas Llosa, giant of Latin American literature, dies aged 89

found 2025 › Apr › 14 (Mon) @ 02:20 UTC

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Nobel laureate, a star of the international boom in Latin American literature, also once ran for president in Peru

Interview: ‘The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year’

Peru…