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

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

The main suspect in the kidnapping and murder of 13 gold miners in Peru has been arrested in Colombia, according to Peru’s ...

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

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

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

TRUJILLO, Peru, - Peruvian mining sector worker Frank Monzón was ... from criminal gangs who authorities have blamed for the murders. The white coffin of Monzón was carried by friends and ...

Peru's interior ministry said on Thursday that a suspect in the killing of 13 miners in the northern district of Pataz has ...

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

La Poderosa, which owns the mine where the murders took ... recent attack prompted Peru's President Dina Boluarte to impose a night-time curfew in Pataz and to suspend mining activities for ...