LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's poverty rate rose again last year, official data showed on Thursday, as South America's fourth biggest nation struggles to emerge from a painful recession amid ongoing ...

LIMA, Peru — At a Roman Catholic elementary school on the ramshackle outskirts of Lima, students are rambunctious and seemingly carefree. By contrast, school administrators are stressing out. One ...

Peru's former leftist president Pedro Castillo was elected on a promise to uplift the poor but ended up in prison after attempting to dissolve Congress and rule by ...

PUNO, Peru -- For Ruben Choque, keeping track of finances in the mud-walled home he shares with his wife and three children is not a complicated task. But it is a demoralizing and frightening one.

The president of one of Lima's largest parent-teacher associations says at least 1,000 schools in the Peruvian capital are being extorted and that... In Peru, criminal gangs are targeting schools in ...