In 2022, the San Juan de Dios Hospital (SJD) inaugurated the Pediatric Cancer Center of Barcelona (PCCB), an international center with the capacity to treat more than 400 new cases of childhood cancer per year. That same year, a pathway was created for families from Peru, most of them highly vulnerable and desperate due to their children's dramatic situation, who came to Catalonia to receive treatment in the hospital's oncology department. Now, the Catalan Health Department intends to put an end to this: they have detected regular flows of patients to the SJD, a privately owned public center, as well as the arrival of patients of other nationalities to Vall d'Hebron and Sant Pau Hospital, and they want to regulate it. When the PCCB was launched four years ago by the Peruvian medical director, Andrés Morales, the aim was to internationalize the center and attract patients from other countries in order to fill all the beds and make it profitable. Currently, 65% of the beds are occupied. According to data from the Catalan Health Department (Salut), foreign patients represented almost half of all minors treated at Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in 2025. Specifically, of the 252 children hospitalized, 123 were born outside of Spain. However, the majority of patients who have arrived since 2022 for cancer treatment are part of the public healthcare system; that is, they do not pay for treatment, as they would in a private hospital, and access services with a health card. In fact, the hospital treats almost two-thirds of all foreign pediatric patients in the Catalan healthcare system.

Peru's Congress expressly removed the country's president, Dina Boluarte, from office on Thursday night after declaring her "permanent moral incapacity" to address growing citizen insecurity and the rise of organized crime. The removal comes just six months before the 2026 general elections. The elections are still ongoing, and until then, the government will be led by the president of Congress, José Jerí, who has assumed the role of interim head of government.

When on Thursday the cardinal Robert Prevost stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica As the 267th pope, Chiclayo, in northern Peru, exploded with joy and disbelief. This city, the fifth largest in the country with just under 800,000 inhabitants, was little known until last week, when many people had never even heard of it. For days now, the only thing talked about in Chiclayo is this.

He met Pope Leo XIV six years ago, in 2019. You could say they were friends. And he was even one of the people who confirmed the role the new pontiff had played in relation to a case of sexual abuse in Peru, after several voices suggested that Robert Prevost had covered up abuse allegations. "It's false; he's one of the few bishops in Peru who stood by the victims. I checked it out, and it was clearly defamation," Tortosa prelate Jordi Bertomeu explained to ARA. He is one of those responsible for investigating cases of sexual abuse in the Church. And so it was in 2023, when Pope Francis sent Bertomeu and the Archbishop of Malta, Charles Scicluna, both members of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, to investigate the Peruvian-based apostolic group Sodalicio de Vida Cristiana, founded by the layman Luis Fernando Figari, who was accused of being one of them. In 2025, the Sodalicio was dissolved.

"If you allow me, also, a word, a greeting [...] to my beloved diocese of Chiclayo, in Peru," said Robert Prevost in Spanish in his first speech as pontiff, before a crowd that gave her a standing ovation, moved, in St. Peter's Square, "where a faithful people have accompanied their bishop, shared their faith, and given so much to continue being a Church faithful to Jesus Christ."

The mining company Poderosa confirmed this weekend that 13 of its workers, who had been kidnapped a week earlier by criminal gangs, were murdered. This Monday, relatives of the 13 deceased miners were finally able to identify the bodies, as protests against the Peruvian government for losing control of the Pataz region in the northwest of the country to organized crime continue to grow. Poderosa itself, for which the R&R company that hired the men worked, confirmed that its kidnapped workers had been "cruelly murdered by criminals allied with illegal mining."

The mining company Poderosa confirmed this weekend that 13 of its workers, who had been kidnapped a week earlier by criminal gangs, were murdered. This Monday, relatives of the 13 deceased miners were finally able to identify the bodies, as protests against the Peruvian government for losing control of the Pataz region in the northwest of the country to organized crime continue to grow. Poderosa itself, for which the R&R company that hired the men worked, confirmed that its kidnapped workers had been "cruelly murdered by criminals allied with illegal mining."

The official tally of Peru's elections is not yet finished, but Pedro Castillo, the leftist candidate, has already celebrated his victory. He has done so from Lima, at his party headquarters, with confetti and fireworks. "The people have spoken. According to our auditors, we already have an official count, and the people have won this victory".