The murders in early May put the spotlight on increasing violence provoked by a gold rush in Peru’s northern Pataz district.

A suspect in the murder of 13 miners in Peru has been arrested in Colombia. Miguel Rodriguez, known as 'Cuchillo,' was caught ...

Víctor Zanabria, the commander-in-chief of Peru’s National Police, was accused of protecting informal miners when he was the ...

Miguel Antonio Rodríguez Díaz, whose alias is "Cuchillo" (knife), was arrested in the city of Medellin in a joint operation ...

Peruvian gold output is expected to be significantly dented in the coming month due to a mining ban in a northern region of ...

Writing on X, Peru's interior ministry said the suspect, Miguel Rodriguez Diaz, alias "Cuchillo" (Knife), was arrested in a ...

Peru’s mining industry association SNMPE has criticized the government’s decision to ban all mining activities, saying only illegal operations should have been shut down. The decision ...

Americascategory· May 7, 2025 Grisly Peru mining murders spotlight 'gold curse' in the Andes Peruvian mining sector worker Frank Monzón was aware of the risks, but the lure of gold deep in the ...

Pope Leo XIV's election marks a historic moment: the first pope from an English-speaking country, and the first from the ...