5 March – Prime Minister Alberto 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 President Dina Boluarte's residence in Surquillo, Lima as part of an investigation into allegations over her failure to declare luxury watches in her assets in what later becomes known as the Rolexgate case.[2][3]
22 April – Psychologist and polymyositis 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 in Cajamarca 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 alleged influence peddling.[7]
17 May – A vacancy motion is filed in Congress against President Boluarte, citing “moral incapacity” in the wake of investigations into the Rolexgate 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 in La Oroya.[9]
4 July – The Peruvian Congress votes 15–12 to pass a bill introducing a statute of limitations on prosecuting crimes 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 the Ayacucho region in the Andes mountains.[15]
Gianfranco Torres-Navarro, the leader of the Los Killers de Ventanilla y Callao criminal gang accused of 23 murders in the Callao area, is arrested by US authorities in New York.[18]
3 September – A clash between the isolated indigenous Mashco-Piro community and loggers attempting to clear a forest path near their territory in Madre de Dios Department results in the deaths of two loggers, with two more missing.[20]
11 September – Former president Alberto Fujimori dies from tongue cancer in Lima at the age of 86.[21]
