Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, known as PPK, became president arguably because his citizens are fed up with corruption. Scandal-plagued Brazil offers a template for how he could tackle it.
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They kill thousands of animals and people every year by spreading rabies. New research findings could solve the problem.
The scion of a despotic leader has been vanquished – but her party can still call the shots.
Peru’s democracy has been relatively stable for most of the 21st century, but its elections are famously lurid and chaotic.
Latin America suddenly seems to be lurching to the right – but was it ever that far left in the first place?
In the 1990s, thousands of people in Peru were sterilised without their consent – but finally they now have a way to tell the world.
After decades held by Peru’s Maoist guerilla rebels, a clutch of indigenous hostages face a whole other attack on their way of life.
Peru’s economy is booming, but it has a terrible cocaine habit that could cause it problems.
Brazil will find a way to ship its goods to China whether we like it or not, and for a rainforest roads are much worse than rail.
Native groups in a remote corner of Peru just took over 14 oil wells for a month.
When the Spanish conquered South America in the 16th century they took over the Incas’ mines and soon began to pump clouds of lead dust over the Andes. The silver the conquistadors sent back home made…
Despite all the treaties, pledges, export bans and labelling schemes, the world’s forests are still disappearing at an alarming rate. In poorer countries a forest may simply be worth less as a living…
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