Illegal mining renders vast areas uninhabitable in Lima outskirts
Illegal miners of construction materials create sprawling quarries which render vast expanses of land…
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Peru: Report links Fujimori’s party leader to drug trafficking
Popular Force chairman Joaquin Ramirez is the subject of a DEA investigation which has the ultimate…
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Peru police official arrested with 119 kilos of cocaine
Peru police arrested Nuevo Chimbote police chief Freddy Tuesta in the northern state of Ancash with…
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Peru’s most wanted fugitive arrested in Colombia
Peru drug trafficker Gerson “Caracol” Galvez was arrested at a shopping center in Medellin, Colombia…
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Lima’s high-crime port district under six months of martial law
Peru’s national government agreed to extend a state of emergency to fight crime in Lima’s Callao…
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Peru tax police raid Panama firm’s Lima office
Police raided the Lima office of Mossack Fonseca on Monday in it tax-evasion investigations into Peruvian…
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Martial law has limited effect in reducing crime in Peru
Peru’s declaration of emergencies in high-crime districts has not reduced crime in Callao or Chimbote.…
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Peru drug lord eyes TV series after 22 years in prison
Peruvian drug trafficker Demetrio “Vaticano” Chavez was released from prison yesterday after serving…
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Peru declares martial law in two northern provinces
Peru has declared martial law to fight organized crime in two provinces of Ancash state. The national…
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Corrupt police gangs arrested throughout Peru
Police have arrested over a dozen corrupt officers who worked with drug trafficking and extortion gangs…
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