It’s been a deadly start to the year in Peru. The country has already seen more than 700 homicides: a 20 percent increase compared to last year. These murders are often the result of extortion ...

Víctor Zanabria, the commander-in-chief of Peru’s National Police, was accused of protecting informal miners when he was the ...

Adrianzen was the most trusted ally of woefully unpopular President Dina Boluarte, whose government is accused of failing to ...

Peruvian Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzen resigned on Tuesday, a day before he was set to face a censure vote in Congress ...

The prime minister of Peru, Gustavo Adrianzén, has resigned hours before he was due to face a no-confidence vote in Congress.

LIMA - Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Tuesday shook up her cabinet, replacing the Andean nation's economy minister after just a few months and the day before her prime minister was to face a ...

Peru's Interior Ministry says that the bodies of 13 of its security guards kidnapped from a gold mine just over a week ago have been found.

With much of Peru awash in a wave of crime that prompted the government to declare a state of emergency last month, reports of extortion from artisanal miners and entrepreneurs in the country's ...

The bodies of 13 security guards were discovered at La Poderosa gold mine in Peru, following a kidnapping incident by alleged ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) strongly condemns the murder of Raúl Celis López, a local journalist in Iquitos, a city in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon. Known for his outspoken views on insecurity ...

THIRTEEN security guards kidnapped from a major gold mine have been found dead after being kept hostage for a week. The ...