After the failure to extend the REINFO program and the rejection of MAPE, President Boluarte claimed that "Only illegal ...

The government of President Dina Boluarte has extended Peru's small-scale mining formalization program through December, even ...

The International Seabed Authority has resumed negotiations on deep-sea mining regulations, following Donald Trump's ...

Journalist Dom Phillips sent a heartbreaking final message to his sister before he was murdered in The Amazon - now she's ...

As head of the Gestapo in Lyon, Klaus Barbie was notorious for his cruelty. After World War II, he escaped to Bolivia, aided by the U.S. government, where he helped military regimes crush opposition ...

An attack by armed assailants on a patrol of a mission by the Indigenous Wampis guards last week in the Peruvian Amazon has ...

A blockade by informal miners in Peru's Chumbivilcas province is disrupting a vital copper corridor, impacting the operations of leading mining companies, as reported by Reuters. Supporting a ...

The biggest threat to Peru tapping more of its giant copper deposits is rising informal and illegal mining activity, according to the head of the country’s main industry association, SNMPE. Peru ...

This week’s copper transport disruptions in Peru underscore the growing impact of informal mining on global corporations that operate in the Andean nation. Frustrated by regulatory restrictions ...

Indigenous and rural communities from Peru’s northern Amazon have filed a formal complaint against the government for failing to curb illegal gold mining in the Nanay River basin. They say that ...