Penny’s 19th installment in the beloved Gamache series is a particularly haunting and relevant mystery novel. Yael van der Wouden’s novel, shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, is about ...

Happily, there are a host of witty, satirical and downright hilarious books out there, waiting to put a smile back on our faces. From comic novels and memoirs, to essays and poetry, humour has filled ...

In 1990 Belaunde Terry supported his friend the novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who was defeated by Alberto Fujimori. Peru was plunged into another period of political unrest before Fujimori fled to ...

Creating a memorable character is anything but easy because so many things are overdone and cliché. But then you read a book or two and you find a character that’s ordinary, but not. They’re relatable ...

His 1971 book “A Theology of Liberation” had a profound impact ... which spent decades disciplining some of its most vocal supporters. Alberto Fujimori, Peru’s controversial former president, buried ...

Over the past 20 years, macroeconomic stability, trade openness, and a favorable international environment have enabled Peru to become an upper-middle-income economy. GDP per capita jumped from ...

as in the Fujimori and Toledo cases. Toledo is the first former president to be sentenced in this chapter of Peru’s Odebrecht investigation. Two other former presidents — Pedro Pablo Kuczynski ...

Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori (1990–2000) opened up his country’s Amazon to small-, medium-, and large-scale agriculture and promoted foreign investment in the area. Shortly after, Peru ...

Peru's former President Alejandro Toledo on Monday was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a case involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, which became synonymous with ...

Alberto Fujimori, who led Peru from 1990 to 2000, left office when he became engulfed in a major corruption scandal and went into self-imposed exile in Japan. He memorably faxed in his resignation ...