Protester killed in Lima amid ongoing political crisis in Peru

One person was killed and others were hospitalized in Peru’s capital Lima on Saturday as nationwide clashes between protesters and police continued in the eighth week of the South American country’s political crisis. The death of 55-year-old Victor Santisteban Yaxavilca has killed 58 people nationwide in protests that began in early December following the impeachment […]

Peru arrests 200 people in Lima; Machu Picchu ordered to close after protests erupted

Peruvian police arrested more than 200 people for illegally entering the campus of a major Lima university, while authorities in Cusco closed the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu and the Inca Trail as deadly government measures across the country Antiwar protests spread. Dozens of Peruvians were injured after tensions flared again on Friday as police […]