No, it doesn’t shock me that you’re thinking about moving to Peru. The people in your life might question your sanity for ...

AWAY from the ancient stones of Machu Picchu, Peru is a nation in the grip of a brutal crime wave, with hundreds of gangs holding locals and tourists in the country to ransom.  To their ...

When the Invicta mine opened and its trucks began to rumble up and down the windy roads with precious metals extracted from deep inside, the people of Parán said, “No.” This is episode 39 of Stories ...

Dom Phillips put himself at risk to highlight exploitation in Brazil, but an investigation into illegal fishing proved fatal ...

A new analysis of archived satellite imagery has revealed that the growing presence of small-scale mining in the Peruvian ...

The murders in early May put the spotlight on increasing violence provoked by a gold rush in Peru’s northern Pataz district.

Police in Colombia have arrested a man suspected of being involved in the killing of 13 kidnapped workers at a gold mine in ...

Writing on X, Peru's interior ministry said the suspect, Miguel Rodriguez Diaz, alias "Cuchillo" (Knife), was arrested in a joint operation between the Peruvian and Colombian police forces and ...

Peru's interior ministry said on Thursday that a suspect in the killing of 13 miners in the northern district of Pataz has been arrested in Colombia.

La Poderosa, which owns the mine where the murders took ... recent attack prompted Peru's President Dina Boluarte to impose a night-time curfew in Pataz and to suspend mining activities for ...