After eight presidents in ten years, many voters are looking for stability so the next president can focus on tackling crime and inequality.

Peruvians will elect their new president Sunday with polls suggesting a polarized but tight race between hard-right candidate Keiko Fujimori and leftist Roberto Sánchez.

By Alek Buttermann With Peru's presidential run-off still formally unresolved, the contest between conservative Keiko Fujimori and leftist Roberto Sánchez has entered its most analytically consequential phase.

The results of Peru's presidential election on Sunday could hinge on the votes of small, artisanal gold miners who benefit from loose regulations under an administrative program that was created in 2016 and originally ​slated to end in 2020.

The daughter of disgraced former president Alberto Fujimori, running again for the presidency, is herself deeply unpopular. So is her opponent.

Live international soccer action from Nu Stadium in Miami, Florida, as Haiti and Peru meet in a friendly today, Friday, June 5.

By Alexander Villegas and Marco Aquino LIMA, June 7 (Reuters) - Peruvians are voting in what is expected to be a tight presidential run-off election on Sunday that will either continue Latin America's rightward shift or buck the trend with a leftist candidate who has rattled markets.

Trujillo mourned its dead, killed in crime waves that have targeted this Peruvian city. Small business owners struggle and extortion by gangs is rampant as in many other places across the South American country.