Castillo has four identities. Together, they make him a very unusual president. Castillo is a peasant farmer from a northern region of Peru called Cajamarca. There are very important gold mines there, ...

Rural teacher-turned-political novice Pedro Castillo on Monday became the winner of Peru's presidential election after the country's longest electoral count in 40 years. Castillo, whose supporters ...

Peru's president-elect, Pedro Castillo, waves as he leaves his home in Lima on Thursday. (Sebastian Castaneda/Reuters) Peru’s fragile democracy was subjected to an extreme test last month when a ...

Pedro Castillo maintained a slim lead over rival Keiko Fujimori in Peru's presidential election on Thursday, with almost all votes counted, but with a chunk of contested votes yet to be scrutinized by ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chela Ordoñez travelled nearly 1,000km from Peru’s northern Piura province to the capital Lima when she heard ...

Peru’s ousted former president Pedro Castillo will remain in pretrial detention for 18 months, the country’s Supreme Court ordered on Thursday, as crowds of his supporters protested outside the ...

LIMA/TACABAMBA, Peru, June 7 (Reuters) - Peruvian socialist Pedro Castillo widened his lead against right-wing rival Keiko Fujimori in the country’s presidential vote on Monday, but she said she will ...

WHEN HE TOOK office as Peru’s president on July 28th, the bicentenary of the country’s independence, Pedro Castillo declared that he would not govern from the presidential palace. Built on the site of ...

Peru’s new President Dina Boluarte ruled out early elections on Thursday, her first day in office following the dramatic ousting and arrest of her predecessor Pedro Castillo. Boluarte became Peru’s ...

Dina Boluarte became Peru’s first female President on Wednesday, capping off a dramatic day which saw her predecessor arrested for the alleged crime of rebellion and impeached by lawmakers. Boluarte, ...

Peru’s President Pedro Castillo has accused his opponents of undermining democracy as he faces the third impeachment effort of his embattled presidency. Castillo, who began a five-year term in July ...

LIMA, July 28 (Reuters) - Pedro Castillo on Wednesday said Peru's colonial wounds still ran deep and he would seek to heal them, while promising economic stability in his inaugural speech as president ...