Stars, crowns, roses and watch tattoos can land you in prison if you are a Venezuelan man in the United States.

According to an indictment by Peru’s public prosecutor’s office, Álvarez extorted, threatened and ordered the assassination ...

Former President of Peru Francisco Sagasti criticized Peru’s sitting Congress as corrupt and authoritarian at a forum hosted ...

Meyer Lansky, gray eminence of organized crime, died of lung cancer at 6 a.m. Saturday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach ...

Reports of extortion are rising again in Peru, in part because victims are more willing to seek help from the authorities.

Colombia has created a first-of-its-kind territory meant to protect a group of Indigenous people living away from regular contact with the rest of the world. Located in the southern department of ...

Peruvian authorities have implemented emergency measures in the nation’s capital following the assassination of a prominent ...

Peru’s Congress on Friday voted to dismiss ... allow for the deployment of soldiers to help police crack down on organized crime. Racketeering — part of a crime wave that has spread to many ...

“If Congress cared about money laundering, it would go after illegal mining and organized crime groups in Peru,” Goebertus said. “By passing legislation to undermine investigations into ...

The report found that one of the greatest impacts of this mass migration has been a rise in organized crime and the presence of criminal ... SEE ALSO: The Women Ensnared in Tren de Aragua’s Criminal ...

Peru announced a state of emergency late Sunday ... "In the fight against organized crime, all Peruvians must stand united, overcoming all our differences of any kind," he said in a statement.

The protests that rocked Peru in the final months of 2024 around the issue of organized crime and growing violence, revealed deeper problems. On February 6, 2025, Peru experienced its fifth ...