Spanish independent power producer (IPP) Zelestra has started construction at a 242MW solar PV project in Perú.

Peru has become a focal point in US imperialism’s drive to roll back China’s economic influence and reassert Washington’s hegemony in Latin America.

Jose Balcazar, a left‑wing lawmaker who has faced backlash over comments about child marriage, became Peru’s new leader after ...

After just four months in office, Jose Jeri joined Peru's long list of ousted presidents on Tuesday, becoming the third consecutive leader to be removed from office by Congress in the Andean nation.

A faded Chilean flag flutters outside Evena Promesse’s modest home in the unofficially named Port-au-Prince camp, where Haitian migrants in Chile have settled over the past decade. Ms. Promesse, 48, ...

Gangs out of control is an ongoing series that examines the spread of gangs throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, the failure of regional governments to control the violence, and the ...

Astronomers around the globe are feeling relieved after a surprising victory in the struggle to preserve the sanctity of the sky. Last week AES Andes—a subsidiary of the AES Corporation, an American ...

President Gabriel Boric of Chile, left, with Brazil and Mexico, officially declared the candidacy of Michelle Bachelet, above, as a candidate for UN secretary-general to succeed António Guterres, ...

Vicuña, the birthplace of Chile’s first Nobel Laureate, writer Gabriela Mistral, is a dusty little town in the north of the country with colourful facades and cracked cobblestone squares. The breeze ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Leo XIV arrives to bless a mosaic of the ...

Peru’s Ministry of Energy and Mines announced it will invest $7.6 billion to expand and improve mining operations that extract zinc, lead, tin, silver, copper and gold. Many of the minerals found in ...

José Antonio Kast of the far-right Republican Party was elected president of Chile last month in a 58%-to-42% rout of rival Jeannette Jara, the Communist Party standard-bearer. Campaigning on a ...