With 35 candidates in the race, Peru is set to elect its 9th president in less than a decade. Amid rising corruption and crime, voters are left asking: Can this election finally break the cycle?

FILE PHOTO: 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 ...

A specter is haunting Peru. It isn’t the same one that terrorized the elites in the 20th century, or that of revolutions that promised to sweep away the old order. It’s something stranger, and even ...

Investors in Peru's copper and gold mines are worried about the country's presidential vote count that has been slowed by allegations of irregularities, yet ...

Peruvian interim President José María Balcázar has decided to leave the purchase of 24 fighter jets for the country's ...

The job has all of the trappings of power but none of the actual authority. One false move can lead to a public and unceremonious firing — and possibly a jail term.

Peru's Keiko Fujimori is a perennial political loser. Three elections in a row she has run for the presidency of Peru, three times she has lost. This, in a country that switches leaders like a failing ...