National Police troops in Peru’s Cajamarca region opened fire on campesinos protesting the ChadÃn II hydro-electric project at the highland town of CelendÃn, wounding nine.
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg's presentation about Peru at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space on New York's Lower East Side is now on YouTube.
The archaeologists who unearthed a priceless pre-Inca burial chamber at Huarmey, Peru, were in a race with outlaw tomb-raiders who operate with impunity.
Carlos Vásquez Becerra, a campesino leader who opposed mining projects in Peru’s conflicted Cajamarca region, was found beaten to death in a canyon.
Riot police clashed with student protesters in Cuzco opposing a proposed education law they call a step towards privatizion of Peru’s national university system.
Some 4,000 campesino protesters again converged on the Conga mine site in Peru, pledging to establish an encampement and remain there to resist operations.
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg, just back from Peru, will speak Friday June 28 at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) on New York's Lower East Side.
As Peru’s government continues to stall on implementation of the Prior Consultation Law, indigenous leaders have issued calls for declaration of a “plurinational state.”
Peru’s mining minister Jorge Merino denied media reports that the controversial gold project at Conga, in northern Cajamarca region, has been cancelled.
Peru’s high court sentenced “Comrade Artemio,” one of the last “historic” leaders of the Shining Path guerilla movement, to life in prison on terrorism and drug trafficking charges.
Activists established a protest vigil outside Lima’s Hotel Marriott as the 17th round of negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership opened in the Peruvian capital.
