Hundreds of Achuar indigenous protesters occupied 16 wells at Peru's biggest oil bloc, halting production to demand better compensation for use of their lands by Pluspetrol.
Thousands of youth marched on Peru's Congress to demand repeal of a new labor law cutting benefits to young workers. Street clashes with police left 20 detained.
The former president was once hailed for his ruthless neoliberal programs and his defeat of two rebel groups. Now he's serving 25 years for murder and corruption.
Riverboats were sent to evacuate a rainforest village after it was raided by an isolated indigenous band, apparently pushed from its lands by illegal loggers and narco-traffickers.
In a reversal for Peru's Yanacocha Mining, a campesino family convicted of "land usurpation" against the company had their sentence overturned on appeal.
Peru's government made much of its rainforest protection efforts at the Lima climate summit—but a new report names it as the fourth most dangerous country for ecology activists.
The slaying of an indigenous leader who planned to travel from Ecuador to denounce a mining project before the Lima climate summit is the latest attack on regional ecological defenders.
The US has been requiring its "free trade" partners to meet certain labor standards. A US government report raises questions about the policy's effectiveness.
Police clashed with protesters in Peru's northern city of Cajamarca during a demonstration over the police slaying of a barrio resident—one of several social conflicts across the region.
The police eviction of a family in a working-class district of Peru's northern city of Cajamarca sparked a local uprising that left one man dead and 10 neighborhood residents detained.
Peru's special anti-terrorist force announced the arrest of a Hezbollah operative who was supposedly planning to carry out attacks on Jewish and Israeli targets.
The presidents of Colombia and Peru pledged to launch a joint operation to "cleanse" the Putumayo river valley of criminal gangs that control the remote jungle border zone.
