LIMA (Reuters) -Peru is weighing sending what it considers highly dangerous foreign inmates to prisons in El Salvador, the ...

Gangs are preying on local businesses, demanding money and unleashing violence if they refuse. A surge in extortion has ...

Cases of yellow fever have been on the rise in various parts of South America, tripling 2024 numbers for the mosquito-borne ...

Bogota: Colombia has declared a national health and economic emergency over a deadly yellow ... visiting some areas of Bolivia, Colombia and Peru.

A deadly outbreak of a disease which first emerged in the 17th century has led a South American country to declare a national health emergency ... Bolivia, and Peru are being advised to practice ...

Peru in 2025 is facing its deadliest start of the year on record, with the government imposing a state of emergency throughout ... to data compiled by the health ministry death registry, Sinadef.

(Bloomberg) -- Peru ... by the health ministry death registry, Sinadef. That figure is more than three times higher than the number of murders registered during the same period in 2017, the oldest ...

The extreme weather phenomenon came the day after Peru declared an environmental emergency following a shipment from state oil firm Petroperu on December 21 that sent 10,000 square meters of crude ...

The patient had visited Peru, but the health department ... The World Health Organisation previously declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern from May 2022 to July 2023.

Puerto Rico has issued a public health emergency after recording an unusually ... with more than one million cases, while Peru experienced a record number of infections last summer.