The white coffin of Monzón was carried by friends and family and paraded through the streets of Trujillo before his burial. In northern Piura, Darwin Cobeñas was laid to rest in his humble hometown, ...

The bodies of 13 workers at a Peruvian gold mine were discovered over the weekend as criminal groups step up a wave of terror over control of the precious metal in the country’s northern highlands.

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

TRUJILLO, Peru, May 7 (Reuters) - Peruvian mining sector worker Frank Monzón ... criminal gangs who authorities have blamed for the murders. The white coffin of Monzón was carried by friends ...