This post was updated at 3:00 p.m. The Ministry of the Interior released a statement that nine people were detained, four Peruvians and five Colombians, and their names have been Full Article »
On September 18 Peruvian police reported that they had seized 560 kilograms of coca leaves through a series of five coordinated busts in the Huanuco region of central Peru.
Peru’s new defense minister, Jorge Nieto, will focus on stamping out the Shining Path guerrilla rebels who operate in the VRAEM, Peru’s main coca-producing region. Nieto announced his priorities after Full Article »
Peru has launched its first ever satellite in an effort to assist agriculture and combat organized crime. The Peru SAT-1 was launched Sept. 15 from French Guiana and is scheduled Full Article »
Popular Force chairman Joaquin Ramirez has resigned from the party after reports of a DEA investigation into alleged money laundering. Ramirez’s resignation comes just three days after a groundbreaking report Full Article »
Popular Force chairman Joaquin Ramirez is the subject of a DEA investigation which has the ultimate goal of arresting one of Peru’s top drug traffickers. Ojo Publico reports that the Full Article »
Peru police arrested Nuevo Chimbote police chief Freddy Tuesta in the northern state of Ancash with over 119 kilos of cocaine on Saturday. The police chief of the Buenos Aires Full Article »
Peru drug trafficker Gerson “Caracol” Galvez was arrested at a shopping center in Medellin, Colombia on Saturday. The alleged leader of Callao’s feared gang, Barrio King, was arrested by a Full Article »
Peru’s national government agreed to extend a state of emergency to fight crime in Lima’s Callao district for 45 more days on Thursday. The third extension of the legal measure Full Article »
Shining Path guerrillas killed at least 10 military and civilian personnel in an ambush in Peru’s central state of Junin on Saturday. The rebels attacked a military caravan of six Full Article »
