Tag: Peru

Dina Boluarte says radical groups are behind the ongoing demonstrations calling for her to resign.

Thousands of visitors to the tourist site have been stranded as violent protests rock the country.

Authorities are yet to report how the building, in Lima’s Plaza San Martín, caught fire.

Weeks of violent anti-government protests have brought large parts of the country to a standstill.

Hundreds of tourists have been evacuated from the Inca citadel where they were stranded amid protests.

President Boluarte renews her call for early elections as a way to curb violent street protests.

Peru has been thrown into a fresh political crisis after a series of shock events over the past few days.

Dina Boluarte says she will ask Congress to bring elections forward by two years from 2026 to 2024.

Pedro Castillo is impeached and replaced by Dina Boluarte hours after he attempted to dissolve parliament.

An avian influenza outbreak is to blame for the deaths of more than 13,000 birds, many of them pelicans.

Hundreds have taken to the streets in Lima, demanding the resignation of President Pedro Castillo.

Thousands of demonstrators march through Lima demanding that President Castillo resign.

A British woman earlier told the BBC conditions on the boat were “starting to deteriorate”.

Peruvian police arrest four suspects in Lima, with officers masquerading as Marvel characters.

The spill has been described by Peru as the worst ecological disaster around Lima in recent memory.

The animal had escaped from a truck transporting it to an abattoir.

No deaths or serious injures are reported, but authorities are searching for people who may be missing.

Protests have taken place across Peru, as oil, gas and toll road prices rise.

Archaeologists think the mummy, found near Lima, could be up to 1,200 years old.

Prosecutors found $20,000 in the chief of staff’s bathroom inside the presidential palace.

The country is still waiting to find out the outcome of its most polarised poll in recent history.

A left-wing teacher faces the conservative heir of the powerful Fujimori family in a divisive election.

Hear the train whistle blow rolling down the line
Come to rescue this heart of mine
Hear the rumble and roar of the moonlight express
Our one last chance at a better world than this

(All aboard)
A better world than this
(All aboard)

Every traveler sat silent as a stone
A lot like but not quite flesh and bone
Yet I would not be dulled or driven to fright
By a train of the lost souls in the half light

Then a voice
From a hooded robe
Of black
Whispered, "Pale to me, here we go
There ain’t no
Turning back"

"All aboard", cried the train guy
Make ready for your magic mountain ride
Say goodbye to the world down below us
Here’s your one-way ticket to the other side
All aboard, the ghost train
Drop all your trappings at the door
Wave goodbye to the boy in the window
You won’t be seeing him anymore
Whoa, oh, whoa, whoa

Like a bat outta hell we shot into space
While down below in the blue-green glow, I saw a weeping face
It was the face of a child that cut me to the bone

And I heard him say, "Don’t go away, a-papa please come home"

Had no clue
As to who was crying
In the dark
But it hurt so bad
That I certainly had
A change of heart

"All aboard", cried the train guy
Make ready for your magic mountain ride
Say goodbye to the world down below us
Here’s your one-way ticket to the other side
All aboard, the ghost train
Drop all your trappings at the door
Wave goodbye to the boy in the window
You won’t be seeing him anymore

(All aboard)
Oh no no
(All aboard)
Oh no no, whoa, whoa

And so I left off the train, fell into my skin
Through mountains of Peru back to the land of the living
To a cottage in the woods into the arms of a woman
Who held my head to her belly and a-said, "We’re gonna have a son"

(We’re gonna have son)
Mmh, we’re gonna have son
(We’re gonna have son)

All aboard
All aboard
All aboard
The ghost train

The crush happens as revellers try to leave a nightclub in the capital Lima.