Thousands of people have disappeared in Latin America during decades-long conflicts. Many have never been found, presumed to ...

Peru is facing its worst public safety crisis in recent memory, with top government officials blaming transnational criminal organizations for the chaos and violence that’s also roiling neighbors ...

Gaston Medina previously told the Committee to Protect Journalists he received death threats related to his reporting.

The most violent period in Peru’s history still brings sorrow among the thousands who lost loved ones between 1980 and 2000 ...

Organized crime remains one of the primary drivers of violence in the ... airstrips to move drug loads and support illegal mining operations near local towns. In Peru, for example, violence against ...

A journalist who reported on Peru's extortion epidemic was shot dead on Monday and two people were injured in a separate bomb attack on a prosecutor's office that also investigates racketeering, ...

Carlos D was the second-in-command of Los Lobos (The Wolves) and "considered a high-value target," the armed forces said in a ...

The dissident factions were responsible for protecting coca crops and cocaine processing labs, while the Constru handled international contacts for negotiating shipments, according to sources on the ...

Rescuers in northern Peru were searching for trapped miners ... with illegal mining and organized crime playing a major role in propping up insecurity in the area. Last November, an attack at ...

It is not an issue exclusive to Peru, but it is not a justification to say ... no one here is excluded from the fight against delinquency and organized crime," she emphasized. Furthermore, the Head of ...