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Inmates gather around the corpses of other inmates during a prison riot in Miguel Castro Castro prison, in Lima, Peru, Monday, April 27, 2020. Peru's prison agency reported that three prisoners died from causes still under investigation after a riot at the prison. Inmates complain authorities are not doing enough to prevent the spread of coronavirus inside the prison. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Officials: 9 inmates dead in Peru coronavirus prison riot

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO - Associated Press

In this April 17, 2020 photo, an anteater peers out from its cage at the Huachipa Zoo, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. Breeding centers and zoos in Peru only have enough animal feed to last for about two more weeks, as they are left without income from paying visitors as strict coronavirus quarantines keep the public away. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Virus drives Peru’s zoos to breaking point as feed runs out

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO - Associated Press

A nurse places an oxygen mask on a patient inside the intensive care unit for people infected with the new coronavirus, at the 2 de Mayo Hospital, in Lima, Peru, Friday, April 17, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Fear meets fortitude in Peru hospital hard hit by COVID-19

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO - Associated Press

In this March 18, 2020 photo, Cesar Alegre, accompanied by his 4-year-old daughter Lia, places a damaged apple in his shopping cart filled with discarded produce given to him by vendors at a popular market in Lima, Peru. It is a task that was hard at the best of times, but with a month-long quarantine to curb the spread of the new coronavirus that has forced millions of Peruvians to stay home and closed restaurants and food kitchens, it has become much harder to feed his children. “The virus has highlighted the selfishness that man carries inside,” said Alegre. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Desperate hunt for food by Peru’s poor amid virus quarantine

By FRANKLIN BRICENO - 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

In this undated selfie provided by Jessica Brar, she looks out from her room at the Selina Miraflores Hostel in Lima, Peru. Brar, a 34 year-old Gainesville, Fla., yoga instructor is stranded in Peru, after the country enforced a mandatory country-wide quarantine to help stave the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, The U.S. Embassy has shuttered and Brar feels abandoned by her country. (Jessica Brar via AP)

Coronavirus strands Florida woman in Peru

By ANGELA DIMICHELE of Fresh Take Florida news service - Associated Press

In this photo taken March 6, 2020, Dionisio Romero, owner of a dragon fruit farm checks that the plants are free of some pests at his estate La Voluntad de Dios in El Progreso, Ecuador. As the coronavirus wreaks economic havoc worldwide, the farmer has watched demand for his fruit plummet and prices drop to astonishing lows, wiping away much of the profit he might normally expect. (AP Photo/Marcos Pin)

Virus could test Latin America’s already ailing economy

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO and MARCOS PIN MÉNDEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Mar. 28, 2001 file photo, Foreign Minister Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru, speaks to reporters during a pause in the session of the annual meeting of ministers from the Latin American Group of Rio and the European Union in Santiago, Chile. The former UN Secretary Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar has died in Lima, Peru, on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Santiago Llanquin, File)

Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian two-term UN chief, dies at 100

By FRANKLIN BRICENO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Mar. 28, 2001 file photo, Foreign Minister Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru, speaks to reporters during a pause in the session of the annual meeting of ministers from the Latin American Group of Rio and the European Union in Santiago, Chile. The former UN Secretary Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar has died in Lima, Peru, on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Santiago Llanquin, File)

Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian two-term UN chief, dies at 100

By FRANKLIN BRICENO - Associated Press

In this Feb. 12, 2020 photo, an archaeologist handles ancient bones and vessels from a previous Inca culture that were discovered by workers building a new natural gas line through the Puente Piedra neighborhood of Lima, Peru. About 300 archaeological finds, some 2,000 years old, have been reported over the past decade during the building of thousands of kilometers (miles) of natural gas pipelines in the capital. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peru gas workers unearth centuries of history in Lima’s soil

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO - Associated Press

Terminally ill Peru woman demands right to euthanasia

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Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori, and leader of the opposition party, center, with her husband Mark Vito Villanela, left, arrive to vote during congressional elections in Lima, Peru, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. Peruvians are voting to elect 130 new members of the congress that will legislate for only one year in place of the congress that was dissolved by president Martin Vizacarra in September 2019. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

AP Explains: The arrest of Peru powerbroker Keiko Fujimori

By MANUEL RUEDA and FRANK BRICENO - Associated Press

A man leaves a voting booth after voting in the congressional elections at a public school at the Villa El Salvador shantytown of Lima, Peru, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. Peruvians are voting to elect 130 new members of the congress that will legislate for only one year, in place of the congress that was dissolved by president Martin Vizacarra in September 2019. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peruvians choose new lawmakers to replace ousted Congress

By FRANKLIN BRICENO and CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

One of 17 rescued tigers and lions from Guatemala circuses arrives at the Animal Defender International Wildlife Sanctuary in Winburg, South Africa, Tuesday Jan. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Abused circus animals arrive at South African sanctuary

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME - Associated Press

In this Dec. 13, 2019 photo, Bryan Russell takes a call as he campaigns for Congress in Lima, Peru. Russell is the first person with Down syndrome to run for public office, according to the Global Down Syndrome Foundation. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

In a first, Peruvian with Down syndrome runs for parliament

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO - Associated Press

Keiko Fujimori, right, is embraced by her husband Mark Vito Villanela after she was released from the Chorillos prison in Lima, Peru, Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. The Constitutional Tribunal narrowly approved a habeas corpus request to free Fujimori from detention while she is investigated for alleged accusations she accepted money from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht.(AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peru’s Keiko Fujimori leaves prison after top court ruling

By Mauricio Munoz - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2018 file photo, Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori, and leader of the opposition party, enters to the courtroom wearing a chest vest that reads in Spanish: &quot;Detained&quot; during a hearing where she is appealing her detention in Lima, Peru. Keiko was detained as part of a money-laundering investigation. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Peru’s Fujimori will leave prison to new political landscape

By MAURICIO MUNOZ and JORGE RUEDA - Associated Press

In this handout photo provided by Peru's Palace of Justice Press Office, former Prime Minister Cesar Villanueva is escorted by police to a courtroom, at the Palace of Justice in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019. Villanueva was placed under preventive detention while being investigated for influence peddling in a bribery case linked to the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, the Public Ministry said Wednesday. (Francisco Medina/Peru's Palace of Justice press office via AP)

Ex-Peruvian prime minister detained in Odebrecht case

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FILE - In this March 17, 2015 file photo, Ashaninka Indian men, identified by locals as illegal loggers, tie tree trunks together to move them along the Putaya River near the hamlet of Saweto, Peru. Authorities in Peru said on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019, that they have charged five men in the timber industry with homicide in the deaths of indigenous activists who had battled illegal logging in their remote Amazon jungle homeland. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

AP Exclusive: Peruvian loggers charged in Amazon deaths

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO - Associated Press

In this Oct. 8, 201 photo, Venezuelan migrant Freddy Brito, who lost a leg when he was shot years ago at a party in Venezuela, uses a borrowed wheelchair to get to the site where he boards busses to sing for tips in Lima, Peru. Brito had just finished belting out tunes on a bus and was crossing a street on his one good leg when a taxi driver veered toward the singer, yelled for him to leave the country and brushed his body with his car, sending his cassette player filled with the songs that in a previous lifetime made him almost famous in Venezuela tumbling to the ground. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Mounting Venezuela exodus sparks fears of rising xenophobia

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press