The coastal nation has seen murder rates soar in recent years as drug lords and criminal masterminds dug their hooks into ...

Ecuador’s president has won re-election, vowing to continue his war on drug gangs and shrugging off accusations that he is ...

Ecuador re-elected President Daniel Noboa to a four-year term. What to know about the pro-President Donald Trump conservative taking on cartel violence.

Public transportation workers in Lima, Peru, went on strike to protest against rising crime. The government advised remote work and schooling as thousands were stranded. Crime rates, particularly ...

In one of the most poverty-stricken areas of Lima, Peru, where hopelessness has long prevailed, a man who once rejected the ...

Ari Caramanica, Vanderbilt University (THE CONVERSATION) Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first ... has awarded the Emergency Food Network with a $150,000 grant. The Hearst Foundations has ...

According to an indictment by Peru’s public prosecutor’s office, Álvarez extorted, threatened and ordered the assassination ...

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

In the early hours of Dec. 22, 2024, fishermen working in the Talara Sea in northern Peru hauled in their nets. But instead ...

Announcing a state of emergency to deal with the crime wave ... After the murder of Flores, the culture ministry of Peru took a moment to honor the singer, posting a picture of him on Twitter.

The announcement comes amid a security crisis in Peru that has resulted in the declaration of a state of emergency in the Peruvian capital and the province of Callao. The declaration followed the ...

The UK government has issued a warning to travellers visiting Peru after the country declared a state of emergency amid a recent crime surge. The emergency comes after weeks of escalating violence ...