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July 26, 2022 at 6:16 am

Peru’s struggling president marks his first year in office

Like many in her Peruvian Andes community, María Acevedo voted for Pedro Castillo for president last year, drawn in part by the possibility of seeing...

FILE – A student colors in a fox during during Quechua Indigenous language class focusing on animal names at a public primary school in Licapa, Peru, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. About 10 million people speak Quechua, but trying to automatically translate emails and text messages into the most widely spoken Indigenous language family in the Americas was nearly impossible before Google introduced it into its digital translation service Wednesday, May 11, 2022. The internet giant says new artificial intelligence technology is enabling it to vastly expand Google Translateâ€™s repertoire of the worldâ€™s languages, adding 24 more this week including Quechua and other Indigenous South American languages such as Guarani and Aymara. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File) NYBZ320 NYBZ320

May 11, 2022 at 12:42 pm

Google gets more multilingual, but will it get the nuance?

Google says new artificial intelligence technology is enabling it to vastly expand Google Translate’s repertoire of the world’s languages. It added 24 of them this...

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April 13, 2022 at 1:21 pm

Facing hunger, Peru’s poor band together with ‘common pots’ VIEW

Every day for more than two years, Cindy Cueto has woken up in the house she shares with her three children atop a desert hill...

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April 5, 2022 at 5:27 am

Peru imposes, then withdraws curfew to quell price protests VIEW

Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has lifted a curfew he had decreed less than a day earlier in the country’s capital and its main port in...

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March 28, 2022 at 10:01 pm

Peru’s president survives 2nd impeachment effort in 8 months VIEW

Peru’s embattled president has avoided joining the South American nation’s list of impeached leaders.

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FILE – Jailed former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, photographed through a glass window, attends his trial at a police base on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, April 23, 2014. Peru’s Constitutional Court on Thursday, March 17, 2022, approved the release from prison of Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year sentence for murder and corruption charges. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File) XLAT115 XLAT115

March 17, 2022 at 2:38 pm

Peru court orders ex-President Fujimori freed from prison VIEW

Peru's Constitutional Court has approved the release of ex-President Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year sentence for murder and corruption charges.

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March 13, 2022 at 8:00 am

Peru’s ‘worst ecological disaster’ slams small-scale fishing VIEW

A recent spill of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Peru has had a devastating effect on more than 2,500 small-scale...

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February 15, 2022 at 1:50 pm

1 month after oil spill, Lima’s beaches empty, cleanup slow VIEW

Dozens of beaches near Lima are deserted and thousands of fishermen remain without work, one month after an oil spill at a refinery created what...

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January 18, 2022 at 12:50 pm

Fishermen protest after eruption causes oil spill in Peru VIEW

An oil spill on the Peruvian coast caused by the waves from an eruption of an undersea volcano in the South Pacific nation of Tonga...

November 5, 2021 at 6:48 am

In Peru, rumors feed vaccine reluctance among Indigenous VIEW

Fears and unfounded rumors about COVID-19 vaccines have spread among Peru’s Indigenous people, who are about a quarter of the country’s 33 million people.