President Pedro Castillo announced that he was dissolving the Congress and using emergency powers to call new elections; considered as a coup d’état, he has now been impeached and replaced by his deputy Dina Boluarte

President Dina Boluarte is under investigation for allegedly possessing a dozen expensive watches, possibly including Rolex models, without declaring them in her asset reports, leading to a controversial raid on her residence and the government palace

Ecuador Armed Forces destroyed a clandestine bridge used for smuggling on the Peruvian border, seizing 2.500 liters of fuel, highlighting the lucrative illegal fuel trade in the Ecuador-Peru border areas and also eliminating over 10.000 coca plants found

The US has returned a 16th-century document to Peru, stolen around 100 years ago from Peru's National Archives