Spontaneous protests broke out in the town of Celendín, in the highlands of Peru's Cajamarca region, after the arrest of six leaders of the struggle against the Conga gold project.
Emilio Marichi Huansi, a traditional chief of Peru's Shawi people, was assassinated days before a community meeting he had called to discuss titling the group's ancestral lands.
The leadership of Peru's Movement for Amnesty and Fundamental Rights (MOVADEF) was arrested in a joint police-army operation, accused of being Sendero Luminoso operatives.
Peru's Energy and Mines Minister Eleodoro Mayorga said the government is considering dropping the requirement for environmental impact studies of oil exploration projects.
Informal miners have for days been blocking the Pan-American Highway on Peru's coast to protest the end of the "formalization" process for titling their claims.
Leaders of the peasant protest encampment at the planned Conga mine project in Peru report a new attack by the National Police detachment assigned to protect the site.
A worker was wounded when presumed Sendero Luminoso guerillas fired on a camp of the Camisea pipeline consortium in the rainforest of Peru's Cuzco region.
Cannabis took a greater share of total drug crops eradicated in Peru in 2013, and authorities hope to expand eradication this year—bringing the program beyond the remote coca zones.
Days after The Hague issued a ruling on their maritime border dispute, Peru and Chile are bitterly at odds over a patch of desert on their land boundary.
An engineer for the Águila Dorada mining company was detained by members of an Awajún indigenous community in Peru's northern Cajamarca region.
EarthRights International filed an action in US federal court on behalf of a protestor left paralyzed by police violence at the site of the Conga mine project in Peru.
The International Court of Justice issued a ruling establishing a new maritime boundary between Peru and Chile, officially ending years of conflict over the question.
