Friends of the Peruvian Hairless Dog Association have offered to send the new first family a Peruvian Hairless puppy. They say they want to send it because of Malia Obama’s allergies—the hairless breed is hypoallergenic—but we can’t help but...

More magical realism from the motherland! Eleven Peruvian Shaman in Lima gathered to cleanse the U.S. presidential candidates of evil spirits yesterday. The spiritual leaders say they have seen that the election is unfair and want Americans to be...

A recent cat-eating festival in Peru has inspired the rage of cat lovers the world over. We wonder; barbecue sauce, or honey-mustard? Ha, no, we’d never eat a kitty, even though the people of Cañete insist they hold the...

Italian researchers just discovered a huge new pyramid in Peru but, much to the joy of unemployed archaeologists everywhere, it’s still completely buried under the earth. Nicola Masini and Rosa Lasaponara of Italy’s National Research Council used sophisticated satellite...

Oops: A group of villagers attacked a tourist bus in Pumaorcco, mistaking the British “holidaymakers” for surveyors: Screaming threats, the villagers pelted the bus with rocks before forcing the terrified holidaymakers - men and women aged from 22 to...

Doris Gibson died last week at the age of 98. She started the news magazine Caretas 58 years ago in her native Peru under constant threat of closures: The magazine was going to be called Caras y Caretas -...

What exactly is a breast-feeding contest and how does one win it? These are the questions that come to mind when we see a gallery of images taken at the Lima breast-feeding contest held Tuesday during national breast-feeding week...

This video kind of looks like a telenovela, but it’s actual footage of Peruvian cumbia singer/model Leysi Suarez getting her hand slapped by the Peruvian Minister of Defense Antero Flores-Araoz for posing naked on the nation’s flag. (The video...

UPDATE: CHECK OUT THE LEYSI SUAREZ APOLOGY VIDEO HERE. Peruvian cumbia singer Leysi Suarez is in shitloads of trouble for taking some photographs that feature her sitting naked on a horse and using the Peruvian flag as a saddle. The...

Do you enjoy dressing small, furry rodents in various costumes, often involving miniature hats that require the use of various staples to stay put? Do you then like to eat the animal you’ve just mortified and tortured? Huacho, Peru...

In an effort to combat high instances of infant mortality, health care workers in Peru’s Cuzco Valley have been encouraging Andean women to give birth vertically in a clinical setting. When we first read “vertical birth” we thought it’d...

They’ve found a lost tribe in the rainforest on the Brazil-Peru border who probably weren’t lost, but you know, just avoiding us. This is exciting because it means hippies can make an argument to stop deforestation in the Amazon....

Why is Peru so awesome? First they gave us the sweet song stylings of Wendy Sulca and her mammary memories, and now Peru’s own La Tigresa del Oriente has been brought to our attention. From her catsuits to her...

Wendy Sulca is a Peruvian singer who feels provoked by her mother’s titties. What, you thought rape and chocolate cake stories were the worst it could get today? Ha! We laugh at you! Here’s a sampling of the lyrics:...

A quaint, if somewhat ignorant report published by the United Nations’ International Narcotics Control Board is calling on the governments of Peru and Bolivia to criminalize coca leaf chewing and coca leaf tea making. The report says that “coca...

Peruvians just love their potatoes. They even have festivals dedicated to the terrific tubers and an entire year devoted to celebrating them: Like many people, I took the humble spud for granted, but after the launch of the UN...

Miami Cubans ignore Rudy Giuliani over a rousing game of dominos. [New American Media] Ten undocumented Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants are caught during a traffic stop. In Peru, which is a nice change. [WANDtv] Hillary Clinton is your amiga....

Discovery Health published an article about the boner-inducing Maca root that’s apparently been used by the Incas for thousands of years. Their verdict? It apparently makes you fuck everything in sight. The Maca plant supposedly increases strength, energy, stamina,...

Chile and Peru are currently arguing over a legally defined sea border, particularly because each country has its eye on areas rich in fish. Yeah, it’s a pretty slow news day: Peru, which asserts that at present there is...

Five-year-old Sebastian Pina was allowed a temporary visa in order to receive life-saving surgery in the United States thanks to the intervention of a local congressman and concerned doctors: In August, doctors in Peru operated on Sebastian to remove...

A chamber brimming with museum-quality artifacts was discovered in Santiago de Compostela. Among the pieces were several items that had gone missing from an exhibition on the 4,000-year-old Moche Lords of Sipan tombs in Peru: Police, tipped off by...

Archaeologists uncovered a 4,000-year-old cave painting in a northern temple in Peru yesterday. Researchers used carbon-14 dating techniques to determine the temple walls were built sometime around 2,600 B.C: The painting depicting a deer caught in nets marks the...

Vice-President Dick Cheney would you like you to be aware that we will not tolerate one iota of foolishness from Peruvian President… Hugo Chávez? Oh, whatever. All Spaxiguatacubaricans look the same anyway....

Ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic vine used by the Incas and the Amazon Indians for ages, is drawing hordes of tourists seeking its “magical” properties to Peru. The vine is also being touted by some doctors for its psychiatric therapeutic benefits....

Just in case you were wondering, and we know you were, that mysterious illness that plagued an entire village in southern Peru after it was struck by a meteor last month is being ruled a figment of “mass hysteria.”...

Check out this video of Peruvian soccer goalie Juan ‘Chiquito’ Flores. That’s him in the sleeveless tee. (Assuring us he’s gay, if the making out with a dude thing didn’t do it.) After a night of neck nibbles and...

Peruvian soft-core porn photographer Mario Testino held a party at the Bowery Hotel in NYC on September 13th to celebrate the release of his photography book (published on September 1st) called Lima Peru. The party had the usual hot...

• A 10,000 pound burrito will be created next month to kick-off Dia De La Raza. People still refuse to believe burritos is a gringo obsession. [The Austin Chronicle] • The ’90s muscle show American Gladiator will be back...

Southern Peru villagers were struck by a mysterious ailment after a meteorite crashed in their area. The meteorite, which left a 100-foot-wide crater, crashed in the Desaguadero region, near the border of Bolivia. According to the AP: Residents complained...

Members of Peru’s Nationalist party are distributing canned food with pro Hugo Chavez propaganda on it to victims of the recent magnitude-8 earthquake that devastated the Region of Ica on August 15. The labels on the cans are red...

While Mexico lies in wait for Dean, the category five behemoth hurricane, Peru is still reeling from last week’s 7.9 earthquake which left over 400 people dead. Clearly the Lord is so p.o.’d at Latin America right now. Might...

• We wonder which is more of an anomaly in the above clip of a goal in the under-17 World Cup match between Peru and South Korea: the way the ball bounces twice off the scorer’s head before hitting...

A poll of over 1,000 British tourists has revealed that New York’s Times Square and Statue of Liberty are the 3rd and 5th-most overrated sights of interest in the entire world, respectively. (Clearly, they can’t relate to the joy...

If the above footage from a local news crew was the only way we learned about last night’s deadly earthquake in coastal Peru, we’d find the whole thing funny. Highlights include the caption at :20 that someone threw in...

Word has gotten around about a lonely Peruvian photojournalist who posted a love letter to the country’s Minister of Foreign Commerce and Tourism (pictured here) on his personal blog, causing a mild media flurry questioning the professionalism of their...

Under the radar, on top of your world: people you should know about. Remember that Peruvian preacher boy who stole all your karaoke moves to spread the word of God, televangelist style? Turns out he has a name, and...

Thanks to countless text messages, online ballots, and phone calls in the first-ever worldwide vote on the matter, Brazil’s Statue of Christ Redeemer, Peru’s Machu Picchu, and Mexico’s Chichen Itza are now among the New 7 Wonders of the...

It’s the dirty little secret all upwardly mobile Hispanics try to hide. During the big job interview or at an appearance before the co-op board, we pray no one knows—or at the very least remembers—that in Peru the people...

President of the Human Rights’ Foundation Thor Halvorssen has finally reacted to Cameron Díaz’s recent fashion faux pas in Peru, where she carried a bag bearing the most famous quote of Mao Zedong in a country that lost 70,000...

We couldn’t help noticing the mysterious and strapping young man glued to Cameron Diaz’s side in every paparazzi photo of her recent Peruvian Handbaggate. Originally reported as “unidentified man” by Reuters on June 19th, he has since been identified...

For dirty old Peruanos, re-enacting “Lolita” with your neighbor’s daughter has never been easier. Just last week, a landslide vote in the Congress of Peru lowered the age for consenting to consensual sex from 17 to 14. Older men...

On a recent tour of Machu Picchu, Cameron Diaz wore a green shoulder bag featuring an emblazoned quote from Chairman Mao. But, apparently, what passes for backpacker cool in the States hits a little too close to home in...

We stumbled upon the above clip in our endless journey to sample the world’s soap ops. It’s a particularly dramatic scene from the South Korean show called “All About Eve”, known to Peruvian fans as “Todo Sobre Eva”. According...