President Alan Garcia signed an accord with his Colombian and Brazilian counterparts Sunday to reinforce surveillance of the Amazon region’s rivers, to combat the illegal traffic of arms and drugs and rebel groups such as Colombia’s FARC guerrillas.
“This tri-national action in the Amazonian jungle rivers will bolster our work in this very important territory and […]

Exactly 16 years after nine agrarian university students and a professor were brutally murdered and their burnt remains buried in shallow graves by a paramilitary death squad, loved ones and students held a wake for the victims of the La Cantuta massacre Friday. The memorial service is to be held on Saturday.
“It’s important to us […]

The head of Puno’s regional government, Hernán Fuentes, denied allegations that he illegally hired unqualified personnel with funds from the United Nations Development Programme, or UNDP. The news, which generated sharp reactions in Lima, was widely reported in Peru’s newspapers Wednesday.
Fuentes, who is being investigated for allegedly hiring government consultants that did not meet the […]

Peru anti-fraud and corruption authorities seized nearly 15 tons of fake medicine, valued at approximately 100,000 soles, or $35,000.
The operation, conducted June 11 in three different stores located on Paruro Street in Lima’s city center but made known only this week, yielded nearly 15 tons of fake and possibly lethal medicine, , Police Col. Pedro […]

The mayor of the Lima suburb Chosica is facing resurgent accusations that he coerced municipal employees into having sex by threatening to fire them if they refused, and that he infected at least two with HIV.
Peru’s Health Ministry on Tuesday published a resolution in the official government gazette, El Peruano, assigning State’s Attorney Fanny […]

Peru’s war on drugs has led to significant advances and the seizure of nearly 40 tons of illicit drugs in the past 12 months, Interior Minister Luis Alva Castro said Tuesday.
“We have almost reached 40 tons (of seized drugs) in the last 12 months,” said Castro in comments to state news agency Andina. “And this […]

Peruvian police arrested a criminal court judge late Wednesday night in Arequipa on charges he tried to coerce sexual favors from the sister of a man facing murder charges in exchange for a favorable ruling in his case.
Judge Francisco León Guerrero was suspended pending criminal proceedings,” daily El Comercio reported.
Mercedes Villarán de la Torre […]

A Spanish “businessman” who twice made Peruvian headlines by assaulting three people, taking a bite out of a policeman’s arm and smashing his Porsche into another car was expelled from the country as an undesirable, National Police chief Octavio Salazar said Thursday.
“The Spanish citizen was escorted to Peru’s border with Ecuador for illegally overstaying his […]

Four scatterbrained robbers learned the hard way that crime doesn’t pay… particularly if you make room in your getaway car by letting your victims out on the side of the road without first taking their money.
The four crooks, who have yet to be caught, car-jacked five shopkeepers from the northern coast city of Piura on […]

Three men were arrested and charged with the rape and murder of a vacationing Israeli journalist after her partially burnt passport and Hebrew books were discovered buried in the back yard of one of the suspects, Peruvian newspapers reported Tuesday.
Tamar Shahak, 23, was half-way through an extended trip across South America when she was brutally […]