LIMA (AFP) - Former army officer Ollanta Humala was sworn in Thursday as president of Peru aiming to confront the high poverty plaguing his Andean nation despite its solid economic growth. Humala became Peru's first leftist president in almost four decades in a ceremony in Congress attended by a ...

BERLIN (AFP) - The Berlin Film Festival wrapped up Sunday after handing its Golden Bear top prize to a Peruvian director for "The Milk of Sorrow" about the scars left by two decades of civil strife in her country. The moving drama by Claudia Llosa, 32, was the first competition entry from Peru in ...