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 »
A court in Peru sentenced 16 former soldiers for the 1985 massacre of 69 people in Ayacucho during the armed conflict with the Shining Path. The sentences ranging from 10 Full Article »
Peru’s military killed Shining Path commander Abel “Comrade Alejandro” Auqui in Ayacucho on Friday. Jorge Moscoso, chief of Peru’s Joint Command of the Armed Forces, said at a press conference Full Article »
Peru presidential candidate Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has gone on the attack against frontrunner Keiko Fujimori after falling behind in opinion polls in 2016 elections. After recent polls show Kuczynski losing 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 »
The Lugar de la Memoria museum was inaugurated in Lima yesterday to commemorate victims of Peru’s armed conflict with the Shining Path and MRTA. While the “Place of Memory” museum Full Article »
Three priests who were murdered by Shining Path rebels in 1991 became Peru’s first martyrs beatified by the Catholic church on Saturday. Twenty-thousand people attended the beatification ceremony at Manuel Full Article »
A witness in the murder trial of Peru presidential candidate Daniel Urresti accused him of raping her twice after she witnessed the murder of Hugo Bustios. Isabel Rodriguez’s testimony implicated Full Article »
President Ollanta Humala touted his government’s strategy in combating drug trafficking in the VRAEM region of southern Peru yesterday. Humala said there was “light at the end of the tunnel” Full Article »
A firefight in the VRAEM left six Shining Path rebels dead and four of Peru’s security forces wounded yesterday. A joint patrol of Peru’s national police and military encountered a Full Article »
