CARACAS, Venezuela -- Peruvian electoral officials said Monday that Ollanta Humala, a nationalist former military officer, looked set to compete in a presidential runoff election in June against Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of a former president jailed for human rights violations. Neither candidate managed to win the necessary majority in Sunday's...

SURE, it seemed like a great idea when, last September, President Alan García of Peru reached a preliminary agreement with Yale about the disposition of more than 350 artifacts taken from Machu Picchu. Everyone hoped the settlement might be a break for cultural understanding in the cloudy skies of international cooperation. News reports suggested...
After a long standoff with the government of Peru, Yale University has agreed to return a large group of artifacts that were excavated at Machu Picchu in a historic dig by a Yale explorer in 1912 and that Peru contends were merely on loan and should have been returned long ago. For several years Yale had argued that it had returned all borrowed...
Han blev uddannet som økonom.
I 1994 grundlagde han partiet Perú Posible. Han var præsidentkandidat i 2000 men tabte til Alberto Fujimori i et omstridt valg. Han vandt Perus præsidentvalg 2001 over Alan García.