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An emciated sheep walks on the dry bed of the Cconchaccota lagoon in the Apurimac region of Peru, Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. The lagoon located at 4,100 meters above sea level has been a source of trout, fun for children eager to swim, beauty as flamingos flew from over the mountains and water for thirsty sheep. Nowadays, however, an ongoing drought has dried up the lagoon. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)

Lagoon dries up as drought grips Peru’s southern Andes

By Franklin Briceño - Associated Press

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Indiana woman gets 48 years in death of man found in woods

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Open water swimmers get ready by their cars on Pescadores beach where open water swimming is booming while pools are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Lima, Peru, before sunrise Tuesday, April 27, 2021. One of the few sporting disciplines that have been maintained during the coronavirus pandemic is swimming, which due to the closure of the swimming pools, has moved to the open sea. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

With pools closed, Peruvians turn to open-water swimming

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO - Associated Press

Free Peru party presidential candidate Pedro Castillo poses for a photo on his land in Chugur, Peru, Friday, April 16, 2021. Castillo, a rural teacher, who has proposed rewriting Peru's constitution and deporting all immigrants living in the country illegally, will face rival candidate Keiko Fujimori in the June 6 presidential run-off election. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Students’ struggles pushed Peru teacher to run for president

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO and REGINA GARCIA CANO - Associated Press

Guillermo Lasso, presidential candidate of Creating Opportunities party, CREO, celebrates after a presidential runoff election at his campaign headquarters in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Sunday, April 11, 2021. With most of the votes counted Lasso, a former banker, had a lead over economist Andres Arauz, a protege of former President Rafael Correa.(AP Photo/Angel Dejesus)

Ecuador picks conservative for president; Peru sets runoff

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and GONZALO SOLANO - Associated Press

Presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso, representing the Creating Opportunities party or CREO, flashes a thumbs up at a campaign rally in Cayambe, Ecuador, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Lasso, a former banker, and rival Andres Arauz, a protege of former president Rafael Correa, will compete in a second-round vote this coming Sunday, April 11. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Ecuador, Peru to elect presidents amid strengthened pandemic

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and MAURICIO MUÑOZ - Associated Press

Doctors and nurses pose for a photo with COVID-19 patient Hilda Noriega, 76, to celebrate her recovery, at the Regional Hospital in Iquitos, Peru, Monday, March 22, 2021.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Embassy invitation for Peruvians to go to U.S. for coronavirus vaccination called ‘troubling’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Together for Peru transgender congressional candidate Gahela Cari, campaigns in the Casachacra shanty town on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Saturday, March 27, 2021. Like virtually all political candidates, Cari has had to face off attacks over her proposals during her campaign for a seat in Peru's congress, but unlike the rest, she has also had to fend off transphobic harassment. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Discrimination part of everyday life for Peru’s trans people

By REGINA GARCIA CANO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2013 file photo, jailed former President Alberto Fujimori attends his hearing at a police base on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. Fujimori is facing new charges on March 1, 2021, accused of being the mastermind of the sterilization against their will of more than 1 thousand Quechua Indigenous women during his administration. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

In Peru, sterilization case against Fujimori goes to court

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In this Oct. 21, 2009, photo, The New York Times building is shown in New York City. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) **FILE**

Donald G. McNeil vows to dish details on his ouster from N.Y. Times amid cancel culture climate

By James Varney - The Washington Times

A man carries his empty oxygen tank to be filled after arriving at the head of the line, in the Villa El Salvador neighborhood of Lima, early Thursday morning, Feb. 18, 2021. A crisis over the supply of medical oxygen for coronavirus patients has struck in Africa and Latin America, where warnings went unheeded at the start of the pandemic and doctors say the shortage has led to unnecessary deaths. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Medical oxygen scarce in Africa, Latin America amid virus

By CARLEY PETESCH and LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

People sit next to their oxygen tanks as they prepare to spend the night waiting for a refill at a shop that has already closed for the day in Villa El Salvador, in Lima, Peru, Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of the people in line said they have been waiting for two days for refills and are now staying for a third day to procure oxygen for sick relatives. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Anger increases in Peru over secret inoculations of wealthy

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO - Associated Press

Empty vials of China's Sinopharm vaccine sit in a cup during a priority COVID-19 vaccination campaign of health workers at a public hospital in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. Peru received its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines on Sunday night. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peru’s foreign minister quits over secret vaccination

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO - Associated Press

A Venezuelan migrant shows his documents during a security check in the Miraflores district of Lima, Peru, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. Peru is hosting roughly 1 million displaced Venezuelans, an influx that began around 2014 as inflation, unemployment, crime and shortages of food and medicine soared in their homeland. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peru’s crime worries tainting Venezuelans who want to work

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and MAURICIO MUÑOZ - Associated Press

A child carries an armful of donated carrots to her mother who is helping prepare lunch at a soup kitchen in the Villa Maria shantytown of Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, amid a second complete lockdown in less than a year as Peru battles a resurgence in COVID-19 cases. The lack of a steady income has forced many families to become dependent of community soup kitchens in some of the capital’s poorest neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Common pots prepared by neighbors feeding thousands in Peru

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO - Associated Press

Javier Casana leaves flowers on the portrait of his uncle Jorge Luis Casana, 62, a doctor who died from COVID-19, in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, January 19, 2021. The Peruvian Medical College reported that at least 11 doctors have died during the first days of 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Battling COVID-19 proving deadly for Peru’s doctor corps

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and MAURICIO MUÑOZ - Associated Press

A woman pulls her empty oxygen tank to the line of people waiting outside a shop that refills them in the Villa El Salvador shantytown of Lima, Peru, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The store is limited to refilling 20 tanks a day. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Search for oxygen tank refills routine for Peruvians

By MAURICIO MUÑOZ - Associated Press

City street sweepers Angelo Paz Soldan, right, Teodosia Tito, center, and Biviana Torres Aderiano pose for a portrait in their uniforms and masks, during the new coronavirus a the Mesa Redonda market in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. &quot;This pandemic was very hard for us,&quot; said Torres Alderiano, who has eight co-workers who have died from COVID-19. &quot;I'm very afraid of catching it, but thank God we are in good health, always taking all necessary care,&quot; she said. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

AP PHOTOS: The faces of Peruvians going through a hard year

By RODRIGO ABD - Associated Press

Pedestrians wearing face masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic walk in the Mesa Redonda Market, a popular spot for Christmas shopping in Lima, Peru, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. Peru's Health Ministry has announced on Tuesday, Dec. 22, that it has surpassed 1 million confirmed cases of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Peru reaches 1 million confirmed coronavirus infections

By MAURICIO MUÑOZ and MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

Brother Ronald Marin, a 30-year-old layworker from Venezuela, prays over the coffin of Keizer Quinones and Sarai Araujo's unborn daughter, at a burial service in the Martires 19 de Julio cemetery in Comas, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Tuesday, July 21, 2020. Marin is one of the few Catholic Church representatives who administers funerals in the cemetery far from the capital's center that looks like a miniature city wedged between two desert hills. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A pandemic atlas: Peru’s death toll leaves a grieving nation

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press