Peru and Venezuela face off in a shockingly pivotal game for the Copa America Group C qualification.Coming into the tournament, both sides were viewed as minnows that would duke it out for third place in the group behind Colombia and Brazil. Most expected this game to be the only three points that these teams would have any hopes of claiming.How wrong everyone was.
The 2015 Copa America is underway. It may be early, but a few national teams have been impressive. Others, not so much. Latin Post provides an updated standings of each and every group for you with a schedule moving forward.
The United States treasury department has released a statement on Monday in which they have officially designated the Peruvian Maoist rebel group Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) as a "significant foreign narcotics trafficker."
Mexico and Peru will face off in a Latin American soccer friendly to get prepared for the upcoming Copa America tournament. Here, we preview the game and provide rosters for the match.
The 2015 Copa America is looming. So many great soccer players will be on display in Chile this summer representing their country. Here, we list the 10 best players playing in the 2015 Copa America.
Back in 2012, Peruvian filmmaker Adrian Saba put together a small independent film called "El Limpiador (The Cleaner)." The film, set in post-apocalyptic Lima, not only made the rounds at prominent international film festivals but became a huge hit in his home country and was selected by the nation's film commission as its official submission for that year's Academy Awards' category for Best Foreign Language film."El Limpiador" never made the cut at the Oscars, but the film's success launched Saba's career and made him well-known in his country.Almost three years since the success of "Limpiador" the filmmaker is at it again with his second feature titled "El Sonador (The Dreamer)." The film is set across a wider range of Peruvian locations including prominent sequences in the desert and ocean.Saba is currently in New York working on the film with editor Justin Beach and spent some time talking with Latin Post about the grueling process that has been the making of "El Sonador" and how it differed from his first feature film.
Aloft” is certainly high on the emotions, but those willing to stick with the film on its own turns will find satisfaction in Llosa’s structural acuity and the visceral performances on display.
Spanish artist Alejandro Sanz whose known as having the largest number of Grammy awards --17 Latin and 3 American -- is oozing with talent with his signature raspy voice and sultry Flamenco-inspired vibes, so it's no wonder why he named his tenth album," "Sirope" ("Syrup").
From January to June, a Peruvian community is submerged in water. It seems like something out of a Max Ernst painting, but residents of the Peruvian Amazon community of Belen, which has been called the "Venice of the Jungle," live half the year on the water, using canoes for transportation.
A recent increase in illicit air shipments of cocaine to Bolivia has caused the neighboring nation of Peru to reconsider their previous policy of shooting down small aircraft suspected of transporting the coca-based drug.
A 61-year-old farmer named Victoriano Huayna has become the the first fatality of a month long protest against a Mexican-owned copper mining project in Peru.
The Ultimate Fighter Latin America series is back. UFC has announced their cast and countries for season 2 of the reality series. Latin Post takes a look at season 2, and lists the competitors and nations participating.
In a vote of no confidence, the Congress of Peru censured the prime minister and have forced her to resign. Prime Minister Jara had not served a full year before an espionage scandal revealed last month threatened her position.
Twenty-one people have been killed and 38 have been seriously injured in Peru when a bus went off the road and plunged directly into a ravine in southeastern Andes Mountains.
Recent medical scans of the mummified remains of a young girl touring as part of exhibit at called “Mummies of the World: The Exhibition," belong to a girl who lived more than 500 years ago in Peru.
Pluspetrol, an Argentine oil company has announced that it will withdraw from an area of the Peruvian Amazon known as Pichanaki where it has been prospecting for potential gasoline deposits
