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Peru’s top prosecutor blames President Boluarte for deaths of protesters as political crisis deepens

Peru’s attorney general is blaming President Dina Boluarte for the deaths of “several” anti-government protesters earlier this year, and charged her with first-degree murder before the nation’s congress in a procedure known as a “constitutional complaint.”

This Monday, Oct. 23, 2023, photo provided by the Catholic University of Santa Maria, shows the reconstruction of the face of a young woman who was found frozen and mummified near the summit of Mount Ampato in the Peruvian Andes after being sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago, in Arequipa, Peru. The job was done by a team of Peruvian and Polish archeologists and a Swedish sculptor who specialized in facial reconstruction. (Manuel Ballivian Figueroa/Catholic University of Santa Maria via AP)

Experts reconstruct the face of Peru’s most famous mummy, a teenage Inca sacrificed in Andean snow

A team of scientists has unveiled the possible living face of Peru’s most famous mummy, a teenage Inca girl sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago atop the Andes.

Archaeologists uncover bones and vessels discovered by city workers who were digging a natural gas line for the company Calidda in the district of Carabayllo on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. Eight burial offerings from the pre-Inca Ychsma culture have been identified by archeologists so far, according to lead archeologist Jesus Bahamonde. The tube running through the site is an illegal water pipe. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Workers uncover eight mummies and pre-Inca objects while expanding the gas network in Peru

Some archaeologists describe Peru’s capital as an onion with many layers of history, others consider it a box of surprises. That’s what some gas line workers got when their digging uncovered eight pre-Inca funeral bales.

Cranes work in the construction of the Chancay Multipurpose Port Terminal, built by a Chinese company in Chancay, Peru, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Cesar Barreto)

Chinese-backed port project in Peru to be the ‘gateway from South America to Asia,’ official says

Dozens of cranes lift blocks weighing several tons and drop them to compact the soil of a roughly one-square-mile area on Peru’s Pacific coast, part of China’s most ambitious port project in Latin America designed to facilitate trade between the regions.

Peruvian singer Lenin Tamayo takes a break while recording a music video in downtown Lima, Peru, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. With his fusion of K-pop and Andean culture, the 23-year-old composer is known as the inventor of Quechua pop or Q-pop, writing songs in Spanish and Quechua. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Q-Pop: Peru’s social media phenomenon Lenin Tamayo fuses Quechua and K-pop

What happens when you take Quechua, the most widely spoken Indigenous language in the Americas, and fuse it with K-pop, the global musical sensation with roots in South Korea?

Vatican investigators, Archbishop Charles Scicluna, from Malta, left, and Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu, from Spain, walk outside of the Nunciatura Apostolica during a break from meeting with people who allege abuse by the Catholic lay group Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV) in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, July 25, 2023. The investigators began an audit of the SCV with interrogations of its representatives, alleged victims and journalists who have investigated charges against the brotherhood of alleged sexual abuse and financial corruption. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Vatican abuse investigators begin their audit of secretive Peru-based Catholic society

Two key Vatican investigators have begun an audit in Peru’s capital of a secretive Roman Catholic society with chapters across South America and in the U.S. following allegations that its founder sexually molested young recruits.

New crisis in Peru as Congress rejects president’s Cabinet

Peru has been left with no government ministers after Congress’rejection of President Martin Vizcarra’s recently appointed Cabinet.

Peru judge orders detention for Fujimori during graft probe

A Peruvian judge has ruled that opposition leader Keiko Fujimori can be held 15 months in prison while she is investigated for possible money laundering.

In a first, Peruvian with Down syndrome runs for parliament

Bryan Russell has Down syndrome and is waging a longshot bid to become a national lawmaker in Peru, going door to door in Lima to ask for votes.

Peru president dissolves congress amid anti-corruption push

Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra has dissolved congress, exercising seldom used executive powers to shut down the opposition-controlled legislature that he accuses of stonewalling attempts to curb widespread corruption.

Venezuelans rush to Peru before new requirements take effect

The U.N. refugee agency says that a record number of Venezuelan migrants have crossed into Peru. With its relatively stable economy and flexible immigration laws, the South American nation has become a main destination for millions of Venezuelans escaping hyperinflation, medical shortages and politi

As police wait to arrest him, ex-Peru president kills self

Former Peruvian President Alan Garcia mortally wounded himself with a gunshot to his head as officers waited to arrest him in a big graft probe that has put Peru’s most prominent politicians behind bars and provoked a reckoning over corruption.