San Martin proposes judicial pact with Mexico

The president of Peru’s Judiciary, Cesar San Martin, has proposed creating an agreement with Mexico’s Judicial Branch in order to cooperate on legal matters, state news agency Andina reported. San Martin made the proposal during a meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who was in Lima last week as part of a state visit that included [...]

Huanuco military base attack, one soldier killed

An attack on a military base in Peru’s coca growing Huanuco department has left one soldier dead, daily El Comercio reported. The attack occurred early Monday morning at the base located in Huanuco’s Leoncio Prado province. Authorities believe that drug traffickers are responsible for the assault in retaliation to the military’s discovery of a drug [...]

One officer dead and 11 injured in roadside ambush

One police officer is dead and 11 wounded after a police patrol was ambushed yesterday in the southern Ayacucho Department. The head of Peru’s anti-narcotics police, Gen. Miguel Hidalgo, confirmed that Officer Marisela Solier López, 21, was killed during the attack on a jungle road outside the city of Huamanguilla, Agencia Andina reported. The ambush [...]

Two police officers killed in eastern province

Two police officers were killed Tuesday in a roadside ambush on their patrol vehicle in Peru’s eastern jungle.  Officer Wilfredo Otarola and Officer Jaime Ruiz were attacked during broad daylight on a road between Villa Rica, in Oxapampa Province and Puerto Bermúdez, in Satipo. Otarola died immediately after the attack and Ruiz was transported to [...]