FILE - Peru's President Francisco Morales Bermudez, right, meets with U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger in Lima, Peru, Feb. 18, 1976, during Kissinger's Latin American tour. Morales Bermudez, ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s president on Wednesday signed an amnesty bill into law, preventing military personnel and police officers from being prosecuted over alleged human rights abuses during the ...

LIMA, Peru -- Ten months into his reform-minded administration, President Alejandro Toledo has encountered a crisis of sinking morale in the Peruvian military that has made the army reluctant to deal ...

A colonel of Peru’s army stood before an electric loudspeaker and pointed it at the palace where his President lives. “We demand immediate surrender,” he yelled. “Avoid unnecessary bloodshed. We have ...

MAZAMARI, Peru (AP) -- It happens about four times a day, right under the nose of Peru's military: A small single-engine plane drops onto a dirt airstrip in the world's No. 1 coca-growing valley, ...

LIMA, PeruLIMA, Peru — Former President Francisco Morales Bermudez, an army general credited with paving the way for Peru’s return to civilian government — but also convicted abroad of involvement in ...