Peru

Indigenous teachers pass on their native language at Michigan State University as a way to resist cultural displacement

The case against Prevost first emerged during a confrontation with the powerful ultra-Catholic group Sodalitium, with complicity from elements in Rome: ‘He has suffered greatly during the last year because nobody in the Vatican came out to defend him’

Pedro Vásquez is one of the religious figures closest to Robert Prevost, and has even seen him cry. The two friends frequently text each other

It is one of the oldest and most traditional communities of Catholicism, with eight centuries of history and Martin Luther among its brethren

The former neighbors of the newly elected pontiff describe him as an intelligent person ‘with a sense of humor and great leadership skills’

The still-open wounds from decades of clerical sexual abuse, along with the growing power of far-right Catholics in Trump’s Washington, will shape relations between Robert Prevost’s Vatican and his home country

The Republican president calls the appointment of the first pope from the United States ‘an honor’

‘He always smiled at me; he seemed more like a brother than a pope,’ he recalls of Francis while working on his successor’s white cassock in three different sizes. Near his small workshop in Rome is Antonio Arellano’s artisan shoe shop, where John Paul II and Benedict XVI were customers

The group of transgender women who met the late pontiff on a number of occasions mourn his loss and hope that the Church will continue to welcome them as he did

The Pope acted with energy, humanity and measures to combat the scandal, but the bishops and the Vatican machinery did not always follow his lead and resisted in many countries, such as Spain

Although the rent increase threatens the future of the bar at the intersection of Jackson Heights and Elmhurst, its owner is doing whatever it takes to continue a project that is above all social and political

The Nobel Prize winner had a romantic life worthy of a novel. He married a relative 12 years his senior, then left her for another one. In 2015, he began a high-profile relationship with a star of gossip magazines

The Nobel Prize winner was diagnosed with a serious illness in the summer of 2020. He didn’t want to make it public, but his closest friends knew. He spent his final months visiting the settings of some of his most celebrated novels

The writer, who was a presidential candidate in Peru in the 1990s, turned from Marxism to liberalism with the zeal of a convert

The Spanish-Peruvian writer, Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 2010, was the author of masterpieces such as ‘Conversation in the Cathedral’

Ashes of the son of Túpac Amaru and Micaela Bastidas, two revolutionaries who defied the monarchy, returned to Peru in an urn

Peruvian-Mexican Musuk Nolte won this year’s World Press Photo in the South America stories category for his coverage of the drought in Manaus, Brazil

The U.S. President has announced his tariff plan, however, he did not mention measures against Mexico or Canada

Máximo Napa Castro spent three months alone on his drifting boat, without food or water, before being rescued in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

The 11-year-old Indigenous boy was rescued by a peasant patrol. His relative blamed him for his grandmother’s death and interred him next to her body

The criminal organization kidnaps, extorts and murders. Now, some of its members have been photographed sharing a sauna with police officers

Clinical staff who shared the four-time Grammy winner’s medical records following her hospital admission due to abdominal pain face a possible fine of over $433,000

The most famous defender of the existence of UFOs in Mexico welcomes EL PAÍS into his house. In an underground dwelling, surrounded by nature, he discusses his encounters with aliens, the time that he heard the Virgin of Guadalupe, or his speech in Congress

A recent investigation reveals that child exploitation and forced labor are being used to pick cotton on dozens of farms in India. This investigation adds to those in countries such as China, which is accused of enslaving ethnic minorities to provide this raw material to dozens of brands

The phenomenon is expected to last until April, with more humidity in Central America and northern South America, and more droughts in the center and south of the region