Jose Miguel Castro, cooperating witness in the case against former Lima Mayor Susana Villaran for alleged organized crime and other offenses, was found dead in Lima’s Miraflores district on Sunday, ...

Latin America and the Caribbean rank among the regions with the highest rates of criminal activity worldwide, marked by a ...

Within the framework of the <a href=" Organization of American States (OAS) 55th General Assembly, <a href=" Foreign Affairs Minister Elmer Schialer took part in the <a href=" Meeting of the Summit ...

Indigenous and rural communities from Peru’s northern Amazon have filed a formal complaint against the government for failing ...

Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano, an alleged senior leader of the Venezuelan criminal gang Tren de Aragua, has been added to ...

The mayhem has been stirred up by the relentless rise in the price of gold and by a glut in the production of coca, cocaine’s ...

Slavery. Drugs. Weapons. Corruption. These are the hallmarks of transnational organized crime--a multi-billion-dollar industry that operates across borders, exploiting vulnerable people and ...

In the South American nation of Peru, going to school can mean going up against gangsters. Criminals demanding extortion payments are threatening to blow up schools and kill their teachers.

Peru doubled the bounty for crime boss “El Monstruo”, making him its most wanted criminal and highlighting growing extortion ...

A strike by truckers of the National Front of Heavy Cargo Drivers and other logistics unions in Peru met heavy police ...

A new Netflix series centered on two pilots traveling aboard a cocaine-laden airplane has revived a Latin America-to-Europe ...

The 2025 summer travel season arrives under closer scrutiny than in previous years. Global Affairs Canada has updated a long ...