Peruvian police and protesters opposed to an irrigation project in the country’s South clashed on Thursday, killing one man and injuring 18, as President Alan Garcia faces a new conflict over natural resources in the surging economy. The...

Indigenous groups in Peru responded with fury after the country’s president, Alan Garcia, blocked a law which would have helped them stop oil, gas and mining projects on tribal land. Amazon tribes and other groups said the intervention would...

Peru’s Supreme Court has upheld a 25-year jail sentence imposed on former President Alberto Fujimori. The term was handed down last April for ordering the security forces to carry out killings and kidnappings.