The Peruvian government has declared a night-time curfew and suspended mining activities in the violence-stricken province of ...

Police in Colombia have arrested a man suspected of being involved in the killing of 13 kidnapped workers at a gold mine in ...

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

There are suspicions of police complicity in the massacre, which is bound up with the struggle for control of lucrative gold ...

Catholic bishops in Peru condemned the killing of 13 mine workers in La Libertad region, calling for justice, national unity ...

Thirteen mine workers were found dead on Sunday at the bottom of a gallery in a region overwhelmed by the explosion of ...

At least 11 Ecuadorean troops were killed Friday in an ambush during an operation against illegal gold mining in the Alto ...

Peruvian mining sector worker Frank Monzón was aware of the risks, but the lure of gold deep in the Andean rock of northern ...

The Peruvian government has imposed a night-time curfew in Pataz province, where 13 kidnapped mine workers were killed last ...

This most recent attack prompted Peru's President Dina Boluarte to impose a night-time curfew in Pataz and to suspend mining activities for a month. Extra police and soldiers were also sent to the ...

The Peruvian government has imposed a night-time curfew in Pataz province, where 13 kidnapped mine workers were killed last week. President Dina Boluarte also ordered that mining activities be ...