Peru

Peru presidential candidate Sanchez accused of financial crimes after advancing to runoff

The prosecutor called for Sanchez to be imprisoned for five years and four months if convicted and requested he be disqualified as a candidate, RPP said.

Left-wing presidential candidate Roberto Sanchez, who is expected to face right-wing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori in a runoff in June, addresses the media in Lima, Peru, April 30, 2026.
ILLUSTRATIVE: Soldiers from Givati's Shaked brigade participate in a muddy military exercise during a rainstorm near Moshav Jonathan in central Golan Heights on February 7, 2023.

Peru opens investigation into former IDF soldier after Hind Rajab Foundation files complaint

JOSE BALCAZAR leaves the Faustino Sanchez Carrion building after he was elected as interim president, following a session by Peruvian lawmakers to choose a new leader of Congress to assume Peru's presidency, in Lima, Peru, February 18, 2026.

Peruvian president claims Jews pushed Germany into war because 'they controlled banks'

A US Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft takes off from RAF Fairford on March 19, 2026 in Fairford, England. Since UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer back-tracked on his initial refusal to allow the US to use British bases to launch defensive strikes.

Colombian military plane involved in accident had 125 soldiers onboard, media reports


Letters to the Editor June 24, 2020: What’s true in Peru

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Letters

Peruvian Jews move to Israel to flee COVID-19 and street riots

“Residents in Lima are in a very high state of tension,” said Gustavo Gakman, director of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews’ Latin America, Spain, and Portugal division.

The ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru

Peru archbishop lines church with faces of deceased coronavirus victims

The act was done in a commentary on the government's health system's handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

Archbishop Carlos Castillo blesses thousands of photographs, attached on pews and the walls of the Cathedral of Lima, of Peru's victims of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Lima, Peru June 14, 2020

Israeli Hodaya Monsonego released from prison to house arrest in Peru

Hodaya, 24, who is cognitively impaired, faces criminal charges of smuggling narcotics after she was found with 28 kg. of cocaine in her luggage.

Hodaya Monsonego

Peru, Panama limit men and women to alternate days out to stall virus

Peru and Panama both started on Thursday limiting the times men and women can leave their homes in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

A woman wears a protective face masks after a case of coronavirus was confirmed in the country, at Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima, Peru March 6, 2020.

Coronavirus: Israel races to rescue its citizens before airspace closes

Peru is still under martial law in response to the coronavirus threat. Recent border closures and a nationwide lockdown have left the 23 remaining Israelis unclear as to what lies ahead for them.

Israelis stranded in India board a special El Al flight to return them to Israel amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Israeli ambassador to Colombia urges Israelis to fly home by Sunday

23 Israelis were left stranded in Peru on Friday after the final four El Al flights to Israel left without them, and Israelis in Colombia are fearing they might be left in a similar situation.

Members of the military walk in Bolivar Square during the four-day mandatory isolation decreed by the mayor of Bogota, as a preventive measure against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Bogota, Colombia March 20, 2020.

Foreign Ministry calls on all Israelis abroad to return to Israel ASAP

El Al planes bring Israelis home from Peru

Israeli returning from Peru on an El Al plane just before takeoff.

Coronavirus: Israel to send El Al plane to return Israelis from Peru

Foreign Ministry to bring home 380 Israelis stranded in Moldova

A woman wears a protective face masks after a case of coronavirus was confirmed in the country, at Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima, Peru March 6, 2020.

Rivlin requests clemency for Israeli with mental illness detained in Peru

Hodaya, 24, who is cognitively impaired, faces criminal charges of smuggling narcotics after she was found with 28 kg. of cocaine in her luggage.

Hodaya Monsonego