Lima

Latest Stories

People wait in line for some businesses to reopen in downtown Lima, Peru, Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Major cities including the capital, will begin allowing for public transportation and certain businesses to reopen, but will still restrict the movement of the elderly and young children. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peruvians fill streets as lockdown ends despite infections

By FRANKLIN BRICENO - Associated Press

Pedestrians, some wearing protective face masks, walk through a street market in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 25, 2020. With Latin America now the epicenter of the new coronavirus pandemic, but with hundreds of millions relying on these markets for food and livelihoods, the debate now centers on whether and how they can ever operate safely. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Latin America’s critical food markets fuel virus spread

By ALEXIS TRIBOULARD and MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

A man moves an empty oxygen cylinder in Callao, Peru, Wednesday 3, 2020. Long neglected hospitals in Peru and other parts of Latin America are reporting shortages of Oxygen as they confront the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peru is running out of oxygen for COVID-19 patients

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

In this April 27, 2020 photo, Daniel sits in grandmother's lap in their apartment in Caracas, Venezuela, as they chat via a messenger service with his father Misael Cocho. After fleeing Venezuela along with millions of others amid the country's grueling humanitarian crisis, Cocho made his way by bus to Peru — where he got odd jobs and sent money home monthly to support his mother and his 5-year-old son. But just after Cocho landed his steadiest work so far in Lima, the new coronavirus cases skyrocketed. He lost his job. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Virus prevents diaspora Venezuelans from sending money home

By SCOTT SMITH and CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Tourists from the United States wait outside the closed Jorge Chavez International Airport for a member of the U.S. Embassy to escort them to a flight that will fly them back to the U.S., in Callao Peru, Friday, March 20, 2020, on the fifth day of a state of emergency decreed by the government to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Out of medication, US woman finally boards flight from Peru

By MITCH WEISS and HOLBROOK MOHR and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

This Feb. 13, 2020 photo shows a memorial for Juan Carlos Medina Serrano in his family's living room, the day his remains were buried, in Irapuato, Guanajuato state, Mexico. Armed men took the 32-year-old from his house on Dec. 3. A few days later, authorities found 19 rotting bodies buried in a backyard in a nearby town, but it took two months for them to notify his wife that her husband was one of the bodies. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Violence, industry co-exist in conservative Mexican state

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

Editorials from around Ohio

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Aug. 3, 2019 photo, Thiagus Petrus, a member of the Brazilian handball team poses for photos while he takes a break from eating ceviche at the international center outside the Pan American athletes' village in Lima, Peru. Peruvian food was the star at the recent Pan Am Games. Athletes from 41 countries across the Americas tasted the highly-regarded cuisine that blends indigenous traditions with European, African and Asian influences with an abundance of seafood from the Pacific Ocean’s cold Humboldt current. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

Peruvian cuisine: the beloved star at Lima’s Pan Am Games

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO - Associated Press

Dancers perform during the closing ceremony of the Pan American Games at the National stadium in Lima, Peru, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peru party: closing ceremony caps Lima Pan American Games

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO - Associated Press

United States' Jace Pardon, right, and Karissa Cook celebrate after beating Argentina's Ana Gallay and Fernanda Pereyra to win the gold medal for the women's beach volleyball at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, July 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Cook, Pardon of US win beach volleyball gold at Pan Am Games

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO - Associated Press

A surfer slides off a dying wave as he surfs in front of the BUP Union naval teaching ship, which was carrying the Pan Am Games torch, off the coast of Lima, Peru, Friday, July 26, 2019. In the Peruvian capital, where dozens of schools teach locals and tourists from around the world how to ride the waves at beaches with Hawaiian names, professional surfers from across the Americas are preparing to compete when the sport is featured for the first time in the Pan Am Games.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Surfing: A Peru way of life as sport debuts at Pan Am Games

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO - Associated Press

In this July 17, 2019 photo, amateur boxer Marco Morales shadow boxes in front of his home at the Villa Maria del Triunfo shantytown in Lima, Peru. Morales and other residents of Villa Maria del Triunfo who have witnessed from their cardboard shacks how the government built multi-million dollar arenas, seen in the background, while their decades-old demands for drainage, roads and drinking water in one of the world’s driest capitals, remain unanswered. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Pan American Games spotlight inequality in Peru’s capital

By FRANKLIN BRICENO - Associated Press

Workers construct a fan zone for the Pan Am games, on the coast in Lima, Peru, Thursday, July 25, 2019. The Pan Am games begin July 26 and run through Aug. 11. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

AP Explains: A look at the Pan American Games in Lima

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO - Associated Press

Man drowns trying to rescue dog in swollen river

Associated Press

Police investigating shots that broke synagogue’s windows

Associated Press

In this Friday, Sept. 28, 2018 photo, confetti rains on mayoral candidate Daniel Unrest as he arrives for a campaign event in Lima, Peru. A leading candidate to be Lima's next mayor, the retired army general promised an iron fist against criminals in Peru's massive capital city. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Ex-army general accused of murder leads mayoral race in Peru

By FRANKLIN BRICENO - Associated Press

Columbus cardiologist fled Uganda death squads as a teen

By SLIM SMITH - Associated Press

In this Jan. 25, 2018, file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks with reporters as he leaves the office of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who is moderating bipartisan negotiations on immigration, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Rubio fills void at Americas summit left by absent Trump

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

"The presence of President Trump would have been beneficial and important," said Peru's President Martin Vizcarra. "But [Vice President Mike Pence's attendance] means that the United States ratifies the importance to participate in the summit." (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS)

Mike Pence to sub for Donald Trump at Summit of the Americas

By Frederic Puglie Special to The Washington Times

President Trump is invited but is likely to get a cool reception at the Summit of the Americas in Peru. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro — who is notably not invited — says he will go anyway. He said he and Mr. Trump "will understand each other, communicate with each other and respect each other." (Associated Press/File)

Summit of the Americas clashes build drama for host Peru

By Frederico Puglie - Special to The Washington Times