A 16-year-old protester was shot dead by National Police troops at Santa Teresa village in Cuzco region, during a protest against construction of a gas pipeline through local lands.
Leaked e-mails reveal that Austrailia's Karoon Energy provided "technical support" in the proposed reform of Peru's hydrocarbon law that would loosen oversight of oil exploration.
A court in Peru's Cajamarca region sentenced three members of a campesino family to more than two years for "land usurpation" against the Yanacocha mineral company.
Peru's National Police stepped up operations against "narco-senderistas"—surviving remnants of the Shining Path that control cocaine production in two remote pockets of jungle.
Bolivia's President Evo Morales, running for a third term that the opposition calls unconstitutional, appealed to his followers to refrain from launching a "dirty war."
National Police troops attacked local residents of El Lirio village in Peru's Cajamarca region after they blocked mining company vehicles that attempted to enter their lands.
In the latest violent incident related to land disputes in Venezuela's western Sierra de Perijá, Yukpa indigenous leader Anita Fernández was wounded in an attack by armed men.
Indigenous organizations in Peru are calling on President Ollanta Humala not to enact a new bill that would limit public review of environmental inpact studies.
Judicial authorities in Peru have opened an investigation into Interior Minister Daniel Urresti in connection with the murder of a journalist, sparking calls for his resignation.
Three leaders of Peru's Shining Path guerrilla movement, two still at large, were indicted in a US district court in New York on charges of "narco-terrorism conspiracy."
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) claims coca cultivation has been brought to historic lows in Colombia and Bolivia, while Peru has regained the title of top producer.
Workers from the Sepecol security firm blocked the rail line leading to the mammoth Cerrejón coal mine in northeastern Colombia for seven days over a contract dispute.
