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Dressed in loincloths and speaking an unknown language, the Mashco-Piro, one of the last isolated peoples on Earth, are increasingly venturing out of their...
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The protest at the Pluspetrol airport, which has effectively shut down all flights in and out, follows the occupation last month of the largest...
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A Peruvian court Thursday sentenced former president Alberto Fujimori, already in jail for a government-backed massacre, to eight years in prison on charges of...
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An isolated Peruvian village in the Amazon rainforest that came under attack by indigenous people wielding bows and arrows is being evacuated by boat,...
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Former Peru president Alberto Fujimori’s request to serve the remainder of his 25-year prison sentence under house arrest has been rejected, judicial authorities said....
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Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel departed Thursday on a six-day tour of South America but the US-led war against the Islamic State group in the...
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Peruvian authorities have accepted a request to transfer an Irish woman jailed for attempted cocaine smuggling to a prison back home in Northern Ireland,...
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Members of an isolated tribe have emerged from the Amazon rainforest and made contact with the outside world in a video released by Brazil’s...
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Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, who is serving a 28-year prison sentence for killing a Peruvian woman in 2010, has married his pregnant girlfriend....
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UN cultural agency UNESCO on Saturday granted its coveted World Heritage status to a vast and ancient Inca road system spanning six countries in...