In Peru, Novalima bangs the drums of change
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By updating traditional Afro-Peruvian music, the band is mainstreaming black culture in the racially divided nation.
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PACHACAMAC, Peru  - A powerful hallucinogenic vine, long revered by Amazon Indians as a tool for peering deep into the psyche, is drawing interest from urban Peruvians and enticing foreign visitors to Peru.
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The ruling on Peruâs former president, Alberto Fujimori, may have broader influence, experts said.
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With the European experience in their minds, South American leaders meet this week in Cuzco, the millenarian capital city of the Inca&#39;s Empire in Peru, in an attempt to set the basis of the political unification of the continent and speed up the
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New Latin acts are getting a major break thanks to an unusual sponsorship opportunity.
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Jorge Subia is nostalgic when he talks about this Andean nation's former currency, the sucre, and bridles with patriotic resentment when he recalls how it was replaced as the official legal tender by the U.S. dollar.
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Since Cuban musicians, and drummers in particular, have played such a strong and complicated role in jazzâs history, the Cuban drummer Francisco Melaâs new quintet seems almost unfairly significant from the start.
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Alejandro Toledo grew up shining shoes in a slum, earned a Stanford University graduate degree and a World Bank job, and five years ago became Peru's first democratically elected president of Indian descent. His presidency ends Friday with Peru's economy looking its best in decades.
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LIMA, Peru  - While workers at Peru's huge Camisea  energy project were busy laying the high-tech gas pipeline from  the southern jungle to Lima earlier this year, archeologists in  the area were marveling at something a little less  state-of-the-art: ceramics.
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By CARLA SALAZAR  HUAYRE, Peru - When Peruvian officials set out to spread the wealth, they probably didn't mean mayors should build extravagant town halls and heated swimming pools.
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Higher temperatures, rapid precipitation shifts, and accelerated blooming and breeding patterns are changing the Southwest.
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The Chilean ruling on Peruâs former president, Alberto Fujimori, could set a precedent for human rights cases.
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Peru looks to cash in soon after explaining mystery illness.
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PISCO, Peru -- Carmen Angulo tells visitors to step carefully when entering her home. Pots and pans lie to the right, clothes to the left, and her three children, her parents and a few nieces and nephews nap on mattresses tossed on the floor.
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As reggaeton continues to evolve, and  as Latin rhythmic stations increasingly add pop and other  rhythms to their playlists, many acts are beginning to label  themselves as "urban" rather than reggaeton.
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LONDON, Jan 18 (IPS) - Peru gave the world the potato, and the potato now  offers indigenous people around the world a new recipe for  securing their rights.
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LIMA, Peru  - Colombia's U.S.-backed eradication  of coca, the raw material for cocaine, is driving drug  traffickers into neighboring Peru and pushing up drug  production there despite a campaign to cut coca-growing areas,  Peru's anti-drugs agency said on Friday.