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

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As head of the Gestapo in Lyon, Klaus Barbie was notorious for his cruelty. After World War II, he escaped to Bolivia, aided ...

Peru's government has kicked 50,565 informal miners off a temporary program that allowed them to continue operations, the minister of energy and mines said on Friday.

Indigenous and rural communities from Peru’s northern Amazon have filed a formal complaint against the government for failing ...

A protest by informal miners in Peru is blocking parts of a key copper corridor used by major miners MMG , Glencore and ...

Illegal mining now accounts for about 40 percent of Peru's gold production. This parallel economy, worth billions, operates outside government oversight and environmental standards.