A Peruvian judge ordered the pre-trial detention for former president Martin Vizcarra on Wednesday for allegedly taking ...

Former Peruvian president Martín Vizcarra has been ordered to pre-trial detention on corruption charges, bringing the number ...

Peru is known for jailing its former leaders. The presidential facility is also home to former presidents Alejandro Toledo, ...

Martin Vizcarra will become the fifth Peruvian ex-president jailed in recent years amid period of political turbulence.

Former President Martín Vizcarra has been transferred to prison Wednesday after an investigative court ordered five months of ...

Peru's Seventh National Preliminary Investigation Court ordered five months of preventive detention for former President ...

A Peruvian judge ordered the pre-trial detention for former president Martin Vizcarra on Wednesday for allegedly taking ...

Former Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra was ordered into pre-trial detention for allegedly receiving bribes during his governorship. The court's decision follows prolonged political instability in ...

" The preventive detention order issued on Wednesday against former President Martin Vizcarra (2018–2020) means that Peru now has a quartet of former presidents in prison, with four coinciding —some ...

E VER SINCE he became president in March 2018, Martín Vizcarra has been at war with Peru’s congress. This week, on September 30th, their rocky relationship came to a farcical turning point.

Vizcarra, 55, had been serving both as vice president and Peru’s ambassador to Canada when Kuczynski announced his resignation Wednesday. Congress accepted his departure in a vote Thursday ...