By Carla Samon Ros Valle de los Ríos Apurímac, Ene and Mantaro, Peru, Jul 4 (EFE).- A massacre in one of Peru’s main cocaine-producing valleys just over a year ago is the latest bloody crime to be attributed a breakaway faction of the Shining Path terror group, which continues to pose a security threat through …
By Carla Samon Ros Iñapari, Peru, Jun 17 (EFE).- The Covid-19 pandemic spurred tens of thousands of Peruvians to abandon crowded cities for the countryside, a boon for agriculture that simultaneously threatens to fuel deforestation. Both the positives and the negatives of that migration are evident in the Amazonian region of Madre de Dios. Veronica …
By Carla Samon Ros Lima, Jun 14 (EFE).- The procedures launched in Peru to properly register activities in the mining sector, which represents 10 percent of the country’s GDP, have pushed some informal miners into illegal actions, miners said amid the national debate sparked by the deaths of 14 people in a clash over control …
By Carla Samon Ros Mantaro River Valley, Peru, Jun 13 (EFE).- The battle against drug trafficking in Peru, the second largest producer of cocaine worldwide, is an everyday job for some men in the Peruvian Armed Forces. Equipped with helmets, backpacks, rifles and ammunition vests, 12 young men cross themselves before boarding a helicopter from …
By Carla Samon Ros Iñapari, Peru, Jun 7 (EFE).- Farmers in the Peruvian Amazon are turning to regenerative agriculture as a way to boost productivity while protecting the important ecosystem in the region. Marcelo Daniel Flores’ family owns around 600 cows on 300 hectares (741 acres) of land on the outskirts of Iñapari, where Peru …