5 March – Prime MinisterAlberto Otárola resigns after recordings of an alleged conversations with a former lover are released by the media appearing to show Otárola granting government contracts to her.[1]
30 March – Authorities raid PresidentDina Boluarte's residence inSurquillo,Lima as part of an investigation into allegations over her failure to declare luxury watches in her assets in what later becomes known as theRolexgate case.[2][3]
22 April – Psychologist andpolymyositis patient Ana Estrada becomes the first person in the country to die from legally-assisted suicide following a successful eight-year legal battle.[4]
28 April – A bus plunges into a river inCajamarca Department, killing 25 people and injuring 13.[5]
11 May – Authorities launch an investigation into President Boluarte for disbanding a police force that was investigating her brother Nicanor Boluarte, who was arrested for allegedinfluence peddling.[7]
17 May – A vacancy motion is filed inCongress against President Boluarte, citing “moral incapacity” in the wake of investigations into theRolexgate case and the arrest of her brother Nicanor.[8]
26 May – Four people are killed and 30 others are injured in a level-crossing collision between a bus and a freight train inLa Oroya.[9]
4 July – ThePeruvian Congress votes 15–12 to pass a bill introducing a statute of limitations on prosecutingcrimes against humanity committed before July 2002.[13] The measure formally becomes law on 9 August.[14]
16 July – At least 23 people are killed and 13 others are injured when a bus veers off a cliff and crashes on a highway in theAyacucho region in theAndes mountains.[15]
Gianfranco Torres-Navarro, the leader of the Los Killers de Ventanilla y Callao criminal gang accused of 23 murders in theCallao area, is arrested by US authorities inNew York.[18]
3 September – A clash between the isolated indigenousMashco-Piro community and loggers attempting to clear a forest path near their territory inMadre de Dios Department results in the deaths of two loggers, with two more missing.[20]
11 September – Former presidentAlberto Fujimori dies from tongue cancer inLima at the age of 86.[21]
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