Hundreds of protesters opposed to mining in their rural province fought police and set fire to a Canadian-owned exploration camp in the southern state of Puno on Tuesday. Residents of the Full Article »
Peru is investigating the deaths of at least 10,000 Titicaca water frogs in a river north of Lake Titicaca in the southern state of Puno. Environmental activists brought 100 of Full Article »
At least 105 people have died in southern Peru this winter. While that is tragic, it is hardly news. Children and elderly residents die by the dozen every year. Many Full Article »
At least 105 have died and thousands of children have suffered respiratory illnesses in the harshest winter to hit southern Peru in years. On May 20 the government declared a Full Article »
Thousands of protesters marched in Peru’s southern states of Puno and Arequipa following developments on local mining issues. The protests in Puno’s city of Juliaca and Arequipa’s Islay province come Full Article »
Peru’s government has spent millions of dollars on raids of illegal miners as the industry has continued its advance into protected areas of the Amazon jungle. The government’s strategy revolves Full Article »
A lack of rain throughout southern Peru will devastate this year’s harvests of crops including onion, garlic, olives and rice. The 2016 El Niño climate phenomenon which experts feared would Full Article »
Shareholders of gold-mining company Minera IRL voted to oust board chairman Jaime Pinto yesterday in a proxy battle which began in a village outside Puno. Yesterday’s vote was the culmination Full Article »
Heavy rains and flooding destroyed thousands of homes this week in Peru’s San Martin and Ancash states. In the northern jungle state of San Martin, intense rains lasting over 15 hours Full Article »
Police have arrested six suspects for the armed robbery of millions of dollars in cash and gold from armored trucks in Peru’s southern state of Puno. In what Peruvian newspapers Full Article »
