Extortion is rife across Latin America but has grown to colossal proportions in Peru, where local gangs and transnational ...

Amid the outcry after Mr Flores’ killing, President Dina Boluarte declared a 30-day state of emergency in Lima. On March 25th ...

Members of Indigenous communities blocked access to Glencore's Antapaccay copper mine in Peru's Cusco region to protest an expansion plan at the site, a local community leader said on Monday.

The nation’s massive copper deposits are key to meeting growing global demand. A battle has emerged over who gets to mine and ...

Attendees at Thursday night’s State of the City address pointed to a 32 percent decrease in crime as one of the biggest ...

Gold mining in Madre de Dios, Peru, is destroying rare peatland swamps that serve as critical carbon sinks, a new study found ...

Commuters and residents in Lima were facing new security measures on Tuesday after Peru ’s government declared a state of emergency in the capital to combat growing crime rates that have prompted some ...

Troops to patrol the capital after shooting of popular cumbia singer in extortion attack on bus provokes public outrage.

The Supreme Court recently observed that once a slum area is declared as 'censused slum' i.e., the slums located on land belonging to government or municipal undertaking, than such slums are ...

“The pursuit of justice continues,” said human rights lawyer Leila De Lima, who was imprisoned and targeted by the administration of former president Rodrigo Duterte for exposing human rights ...

Leila de Lima said it is now time for former President Rodrigo Duterte to face his share of raps and let the rule of law take its course. De Lima on Tuesday admitted that Duterte’s arrest ...

In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has more than 2,000 dwellings, most of them airless, one-room homes, residents that are part of the project, such as Nehal Vijaybhai ...