By Marco Aquino LIMA, April 21 (Reuters) - Investors in Peru's copper and gold mines are worried about the country's presidential vote count that has been slowed by allegations of irregularities, yet analysts expect the sector to weather the election with limited direct impact.

With 35 candidates in the race, Peru is set to elect its 9th president in less than a decade. Amid rising corruption and crime, voters are left asking: Can this election finally break the cycle?

Former Finance Minister Luis Miguel Castilla on Peru's contested vote, and whether the country's economic resilience can survive it.

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Peru’s defense and foreign affairs ministers resigned, alleging interim President Jose Maria Balcázar misled the nation about a fighter-jet deal they say was signed despite his denials.

The national mood is one of “exhaustion in the face of an endless series of corruption problems” and “hopelessness, discouragement, and disinterest,” Peruvian political scientist Alberto Vergara told Uruguay’s Sarandí Radio on Monday.

This episode examines Peru's first-round presidential election with Cynthia McClintock of George Washington University.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s Congress on Tuesday voted to remove interim President José Jerí from office, triggering fresh political instability weeks before a presidential election. Jerí was Peru’s seventh president in less than a decade, and will ...

In the midst of an electoral transition, the government moves forward with a high-impact defence program that will constrain the next administration in budgetary, operational, and strategic-alignment terms.

Peru lost its seventh leader in almost as many years Tuesday with the impeachment of interim President Jose Jeri on allegations of graft. Since 2016, four presidents were impeached, two stepped down to avoid the same fate, and only one managed to complete ...

Peru’s electoral tribunal has set a deadline for officials to finish counting votes and name the candidates advancing to the second round of the presidential election