The pulse of Peru’s youth threatens entrenched power

Jean Villanueva’s father is a bus ticket collector in Lima, working on one of those vehicles that move amid honking horns and fear. He is one of the targets of the mafias that collect extortion fees from ticket checkers and drivers — people who,...

Citizen scientists just discovered the most powerful 'odd radio circle' twins in space we've ever seen

Citizen scientists have found several new "odd radio circles<" or ORCs, in distant, enormous galaxy clusters — and through their discoveries, scientists are learning more about how these huge ring-like structures form. ORCs were first identified...

Mayor of Peru’s capital resigns to run for president

The ultra-conservative mayor of Peru’s capital resigned Monday and announced a run for president of the Andean country that is grappling with a surge in violent crime and political upheaval. Mayor of Lima since 2022, Rafael Lopez Aliaga is an...

UCF Historians Infuse the Past with Tech to Breathe New Life into Atlantic Migration

Humorous happenings, scandalous stories, triumphant travels and much more are nestled away within the nearly 3,000 letters Rosalind Beiler and her collaborators have pored over. Beiler, an associate professor of history, is leading the People,...

Peru: President Jeri leads 'Cyclone' operation in four prisons to confront crime

During the early hours of Monday, agents from the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) Special Operations Group (GOES) entered each of the cells at Castro Castro Prison. They thoroughly inspected all areas, including restrooms, hiding...

“I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This”: Yellowstone’s ‘Supermom’ Grizzly Stuns Scientists With Five Cubs (and One Hidden Secret Still Unexplained)

IN A NUTSHELL 🐻 Yellowstone’s Supermom sighting with five cubs marks a historic event in the park’s history. 📅 Grizzly bears have a gestation period of 180 to 250 days, with cubs born during hibernation. 🔍 Researchers are studying Supermom to...

12-million-year-old porpoise fossil found in Peru

A complete petrified skeleton of an ancestor of modern porpoises dating back more than 10 million years is unveiled at the Geological, Mining, and Metallurgical Institute (INGEMMET) in Lima on September 17, 2025. Peruvian paleontologists on...

Field to fabric: UGA researchers innovate to secure the future of Southern cotton

Imagine a plant so valuable it helped shape the course of human civilization — a plant that has stitched together empires, economies and entire ways of life. Long before industrialization, societies in the Indus Valley, ancient Egypt and...

'Upper Castes Chokehold On Education In India': Rahul Gandhi In Peru

This special report focuses on Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi's remarks during a tour of Latin American countries, where he heavily criticised the Indian education system. 'The Indian education system has taken massive...

Education privilege of a few, free thinking attacked in India: Rahul Gandhi in Peru

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi called for a comprehensive reform of the Indian education system, emphasising the need for it to reflect the country’s diversity and to ensure that learning does not remain a privilege of a few. He also said that it...

Indigenous Cosmographies: The Narratives of the Kukama Kukamiria of Peru

This is a part of the article series Decolonial Praxis: Going Beyond Empty Words, edited by Fernando David Márquez Duarte, Dulce Alarcón Payán and Javier Daniel Alarcón Mares. Editorial and Translation Assistant: Lorenia Gutiérrez Moreto Cruz...

Azerbaijan strengthens ties with Mexico and Peru through diplomacy and dialogue

by Peter Tase Within the framework of close relations between the Republic of Azerbaijan and Mexico, Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to Mexico, His Excellency Mammad Talibov, delivered a distinguished keynote lecture on the history of the...

Rahul Gandhi engages with students in Peru and Chile, emphasises importance of accessible education

Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, has stressed the significance of education in shaping the future of a nation. Gandhi, who has been on a four-nation tour of South America, recently visited Peru and Chile, where he met with...

Scientists Reveal the Secrets of Tattooing Through the Millennia

A few years ago, a man walked into Aaron Deter-Wolf’s office at the archaeology department in Nashville, Tennessee, carrying a two-meter fragment of a mastodon tusk. He had spotted the relic protruding from a riverbank and had sawed off the...

Peruvian artisans embrace digital tools to compete globally without losing tradition

Lima, Peru — Peru’s National University of Engineering (UNI), through its FabLab, has completed a pioneering project in which 44 artisans from different regions of Peru were trained in the use of digital fabrication tools, producing more than 40...

Tim Curry spills on costars from Tom Cruise to Trump in memoir

Tim Curry has played kings and clowns, devils and pirates, a chatty butler and a high-heeled mad scientist from the planet Transsexual. Believe it or not, his life spent off the screen and the stage has been just as interesting. The British actor,...

Interview: Ex-Peruvian congress chief praises progress of Chinese women over 30 years

by Xinhua writer Meng Yifei LIMA, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Fourth World Conference on Women hosted by China in 1995 was "a milestone" for the world, said former Peruvian Congress president Martha Chavez, who praised the remarkable progress Chinese...

Gen Z are driving Madagascar’s protests. Why are they so angry?

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Peruvian blueberry exports shift to year-round supply

The blueberry has ceased to be an agricultural commodity and has become the undisputed face of Peru's agricultural export powerhouse, a symbol of agricultural engineering and entrepreneurial vision that has rewritten the rules of global fresh...

World AFP Why Peru just ousted another president, and what comes next

In a matter of hours, Peru impeached one of the world's most unpopular presidents, Dina Boluarte, and appointed its seventh leader in nine years. With only six months to go until the next elections, the country finds itself mired in its umpteenth...