Víctor Zanabria, the commander-in-chief of Peru’s National Police, was accused of protecting informal miners when he was the ...

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

The main suspect in the kidnapping and murder of 13 gold miners in Peru has been arrested in Colombia, according to Peru’s ...

The white coffin of Monzón was carried by friends and family and paraded through the streets of Trujillo before his burial. In northern Piura, Darwin Cobeñas was laid to rest in his humble hometown, ...

A similar attack took place in April last year ... further details on the attack or its perpetrators. Illegal gold mining in Peru has surged in recent years, driven by high gold prices.

There are suspicions of police complicity in the massacre, which is bound up with the struggle for control of lucrative gold ...

The area had already been under a state of emergency, with heavy police and military presence, due to prior attacks on Poderosa's operations. Peru's mining and energy minister, Jorge Montoro, said the ...