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Police escort Agustin Lozano, head of Peru's soccer federation, after arresting him as part of an investigation into fraud, extortion and money laundering in Lima, Peru, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Tejada)

Peru arrests the country’s soccer boss as part of a criminal investigation into fraud

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Peruvian former President Alejandro Toledo attends a court session where the judge will rule in his corruption case in Lima, Peru, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)

Peru’s ex-president gets more than 20 years in prison in case linked to corruption scandal

By Franklin Briceno and Regina Garcia Cano - Associated Press

Former Peru's President Alberto Fujimori waves at his home in Santiago after leaving the academy for the training of corrections officers in Santiago, Chile, May 18, 2006. (AP Photo/Claudio Santana, File)

Alberto Fujimori, a former president of Peru who was convicted of human rights abuses, dies at 86

By Franklin Briceño - Associated Press

FILE - A customs agent wears a patch for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, Oct. 27, 2017, at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)

U.S. arrests reputed Peruvian gang leader wanted for 23 killings in his home country

By Michael R. Sisak and Franklin Briceño - Associated Press

This photo distributed by the Peruvian National Police shows police carrying a body that they identify as U.S. mountain climber William Stampfl, on Huascaran mountain in Huraz, Peru, July 5, 2024. Peruvian authorities announced on Tuesday, July 9, 2024, that they have found the mummified body of the American man who died 22 years ago, along with two other American climbers, after the three were trapped in an avalanche while trying to climb Peru's highest mountain. (Peruvian National Police via AP)

American climber who was buried by an avalanche 22 years ago body was found in Peru

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Peru's President Dina Boluarte gives a statement to the press during an official visit by Ecuadorean counterpart Daniel Noboa to the government palace in Lima, Peru, Thursday, July 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)

Peru’s Congress approves statute of limitations for crimes against humanity committed before 2002

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Vendors and moto-taxi drivers gather near an unfinished portion of a federal highway project on the Nanay bridge in Iquitos, Peru, Sunday, May 26, 2024. The project in an untouched area of the Peruvian Amazon is facing mounting opposition from Indigenous tribes, fearing that the construction will lead to land grabbing, deforestation and drug trafficking. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

It’s the longest bridge ever built in Peru, and so far, it goes nowhere

By Rodrigo Abd - Associated Press

Venezuelans, who support opposition leader María Corina Machado, sing their native country's national anthem during a protest demanding free and fair elections in Venezuela's upcoming election, in Bolivar Square in Bogota, Colombia, April 6, 2024. Of the millions of Venezuelans who have fanned out around the world, including those who migrated before the economic crisis, only about 107,000 are registered to vote outside the South American country. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Venezuelans living abroad want to vote for president this year but can’t meet absentee requirements

By Regina Garcia Cano - Associated Press

FILE - Peru's President Dina Boluarte talks to the press at the end of the Amazon Summit in Belem, Brazil, Aug. 8, 2023. Boluarte testified to prosecutors behind closed doors Friday, April 5, 2024, as authorities investigate whether she illegally received hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, luxury watches and jewelry. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Peru’s president interrogated by prosecutors for hours amid expanding ‘Rolexgate’ probe

By Franklin Briceño and Megan Janetsky - Associated Press

FILE - Peru's President Dina Boluarte talks to the press at the end of the Amazon Summit in Belem, Brazil, Aug. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Peru’s president will answer questions over ownership of luxury watches, her lawyers say

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Police guard outside President Dina Boluarte's house during a raid ordered by the Attorney General's Office aimed at seizing Rolex watches as part of a preliminary investigation into alleged illicit enrichment in Lima, Peru, Saturday, March 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Government agents raid Peruvian President Boluarte’s residence in luxury watch investigation

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Peru's former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos enters the courtroom for a session of former President Alberto Fujimori's trial at a police base in Lima, Peru, June 30, 2008. A Peruvian court on Jan. 31, 2024 sentenced Montesinos, Fujimori's former spy chief, to 19 years and eight months in prison for being the perpetrator of a massacre of six farm workers in 1992. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Former Peruvian intelligence chief gets 19 years in prison for 1992 massacre of farmers

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Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot is driven in a police vehicle from a maximum-security prison to an airport to be extradited to the U.S., on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Van der Sloot, the chief suspect in Natalee Holloway’s 2005 disappearance, is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday morning, Oct. 18, where he is expected to plead guilty to trying to extort money from her mother and provide new information about what happened to the missing teen. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Natalee Holloway’s confessed killer returns to Peru to serve out sentence in another murder

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Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot is driven in a police vehicle from a maximum-security prison to an airport to be extradited to the U.S., on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Van der Sloot, the chief suspect in Natalee Holloway’s 2005 disappearance, is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday morning, Oct. 18, where he is expected to plead guilty to trying to extort money from her mother and provide new information about what happened to the missing teen. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Joran van der Sloot being sent back to Peru after confession in Natalee Holloway killing

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Forest lines the Combu creek, on Combu Island on the banks of the Guama River, near the city of Belem, Para state, Brazil, Aug. 6, 2023. The two-day Amazon Summit opens Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, in Belem, where Brazil hosts policymakers and others to discuss how to tackle the immense challenges of protecting the Amazon and stemming the worst of climate change. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Eight Amazon rainforest countries open summit in Belem, Brazil

By Fabiano Maisonnave and David Biller - Associated Press

Media sets up outside the Hugo L. Black United States Courthouse before Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway arrives in court, Friday, June 9, 2023, in Birmingham, Ala. Van der Sloot will be arraigned before a federal judge in Birmingham, not far from the suburb where Holloway grew up, in his first court appearance in the case. (AP Photo/Vash Hunt)

Suspect in Natalee Holloway disappearance is in court for trying to extort victim’s mother

By KIm Chandler - Associated Press

Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot, back left, is driven in a police vehicle from the Ancon I maximum-security prison, outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, June 8, 2023. The main suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway on the Caribbean island of Aruba is expected to be extradited Thursday from Peru to the United States. .(AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Main suspect in 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway departs Peru on extradition flight to U.S.

By Regina Garcia Cano and Franklin Briceno - Associated Press

Joran van der Sloot looks back from his seat after entering the courtroom for the continuation of his murder trial at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, Jan. 11, 2012. The Peruvian government said on Monday, June 5, 2023, that Van der Sloot, the main suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway, will be extradited this week to the United States. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro, File)

Peruvian judge affirms extradition to U.S. of Natalee Holloway suspect Joran van der Sloot

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Joran van der Sloot looks back from his seat after entering the courtroom for the continuation of his murder trial at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, Jan. 11, 2012. The Peruvian government said on Monday, June 5, 2023, that Van der Sloot, the main suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway, will be extradited this week to the United States. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro, File)

Natalee Holloway suspect Joran van der Sloot to fight extradition to U.S.

By Mauricio Munoz - Associated Press

Joran van der Sloot looks back from his seat after entering the courtroom for the continuation of his murder trial at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, Jan. 11, 2012. The Peruvian government said on Monday, June 5, 2023, that Van der Sloot, the main suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway, will be extradited this week to the United States. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro, File)

Suspect in Natalee Holloway disappearance to be extradited from Peru to U.S. this week

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