The American climbs the Taipei 101 skyscraper without ropes, the first to achieve it in the 'free solo' modality, in a feat ...

Javier Puente is a scholar of Andean environments and campesino politics. Originally trained as a historian of the Andes at Georgetown University, he has spent his career researching and teaching ...

In Peru every August, throngs of Catholics set out on foot from the remote northern town of Motupe, bound for a cliffside chapel that houses the Cross of Chalpon. The cross, made of guayacán wood and ...

In the pantheon of South America’s great hotels, the Gran Hotel Bolivar’s place is assured. Stand anywhere in the Plaza San Martin, one of Lima’s historic central squares, and the proud art deco 1924 ...

At the age of 86 and one day away from serving 29 years in prison (of a life sentence) the leader of the terrorist group Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso), Abimael Guzman, died in his cell of "bilateral ...

Estados Unidos aprobó el jueves la venta de equipamiento militar a Perú que servirá para diseñar y construir una nueva base de la Marina de ...

With sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean and San Diego coastline from La Jolla Cove to Torrey Pines State Beach, the Scripps Coastal Meander Trail on the campus of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, ...