08.04.2016

LIMA, Peru — As Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori serves a 25-year jail term for kidnapping, directing death squads and other crimes, his family is poised for an improbable political comeback. His 40-year-old daughter, Keiko, is the clear front-runner going into tomorrow’s first-round presidential vote. Treading a delicate line between distancing herself from her father’s offenses and taking credit for .. Read more

18.12.2015

 Credit: Simeon Tegel It wasn’t until Esperanza Huayama awoke in a ward full of moaning women who were lying two in each bed and saw the stitches in her abdomen that she realized what had happened — she had been sterilized. “We were just innocent country women. They tricked us,” she says of a mass sterilization program imposed on hundreds of thousands of .. Read more

25.10.2025

Heard on All Things Considered By Simeon Tegel 6-Minute Listen Transcript The Trump administration’s goals to crack down on drug trafficking may be at odds with cuts to aid programs meant to fight coca at its source in the Amazon SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST:   The Trump administration has expanded its crackdown on alleged drug smugglers by striking boats in the Caribbean .. Read more

29.09.2011

Desde el glaciar Yanapaccha, de 5.460 metros y situado en el corazón de la Cordillera Blanca, en los Andes peruanos, la vista no podría ser más imponente. Empinadas cumbres nevadas llegan hasta el horizonte mientras que abajo, a través de las nubes, quebradas escarpadas desembocan en lagunas de una turquesa perfecta. Pero, mientras los crampones crujen en el hielo duro .. Read more

12.08.2021

LIMA, Peru — At his swearing-in ceremony on the 200th anniversary of Peruvian independence last month, Peru’s first campesino president condemned the “racial regime” imposed by the conquistadors that continues to divide Latin American societies today. To hammer the point home, Pedro Castillo promised not to use the presidential residence, known as the “House of Pizarro” after its founder, Francisco Pizarro, who led the subjugation of .. Read more

28.03.2012

The cluster of shirtless, tattooed inmates in the prison courtyard make no effort to hide the joint as a policeman wanders by. Instead, one turns up the volume on the salsa booming out of a portable stereo. Unconcerned by the clouds of cannabis smoke billowing from the group, the officer does not miss a beat as he carries on patrolling .. Read more