Like much of rural Peru’s Andean highlands, the area faces persistent poverty and neglect from the national government—a disadvantage worsened by the climate crisis. This South American country of 34 ...

A former teacher born to illiterate parents in rural Peru has been sworn in as the country’s president after promising reform and an end to corruption. Why Peru has the world’s highest ...

Gaining insights on the interactions with biodiversity among a rural community living in the Tropical Andes of Cusco (Peru).

Torrential rains caused landslides and severe flooding across rural Peru on Thursday. In Nazca, the Aja River overflowed, swallowed farmland and destroyed homes while collapsing bridges left ...

That is when he first saw rural areas as a potential niche for his research. In Peru’s mountains and jungles, there is limited access to the internet and medical professionals. Indeed ...

Meanwhile, indigenous and peasant leaders and organizations are arriving in Lima in support of Castillo from all over rural Peru to make sure their will in the form of votes for Castillo is ...

Peru illustrates how legal reforms can effectively ... followed primarily in indigenous and rural communities — that limited women's right to work, access banking and financial ...

Castillo, a community teacher, won support from the poor and rural Peru that never saw the benefits of a Peruvian booming economy trickle down, promising to tax the mining industry to help pay for ...