Franklin Briceno
Thursday, August 27, 2015 - 06:05
The elite police who work in the dense central jungles of the world's No. 1 cocaine-producing nation regularly raid the pits in which coca leaves are processed into the paste used to make the drug.
Friday, May 22, 2015 - 06:24
The 5,000 inhabitants of this Quechua-speaking region in Peru's top cocaine-producing valley on Thursday got health care, medicine, eyeglasses and shoes from two mobile hospitals sent by the country's military.
Thursday, May 7, 2015 - 07:15
Sixty percent of Peru's cocaine comes from the remote Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro river valley, and the backpackers trek for three to five days to deliver cocaine to traffickers who move the drugs on for export. The young men often become victims of the armed gangs, crooked police, and rival backpacker groups.
Friday, January 9, 2015 - 06:54
A three-judge panel in Peru convicted jailed former President Alberto Fujimori on Thursday of funneling more than $40 million in public funds to tabloid newspapers that smeared his opponents during his 2000 re-election campaign.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 07:30
Critics said that strategy would only help drug-funded Shining Path rebels based in the region turn its coca-growers against authorities, with violent results.
Monday, June 2, 2014 - 10:31
Peru's president says he is indefinitely postponing plans to forcibly eradicate coca fields in the world's top cocaine-producing valley.
Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 05:47
In all, 22 police officers and 10 civilians were killed in the 2009 bloodletting at a stretch of highway known as Devil's Curve near the city of Bagua.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 07:14
"I don't know what's going to happen after the government deadline lapses. I think the violence will begin," said Jorge Aldazabal, the governor of the Madre de Dios region
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 00:00
Abimael Guzman, whose appearance in court was his first time in the public eye in seven years, is already serving life without parole for a 2006 terrorism conviction for multiple crimes
Monday, May 7, 2012 - 00:00
A predawn fire swept through a drug rehabilitation center in a town on Lima's outskirts Saturday, killing 14 people.