AYNA SAN FRANCISCO, Peru (Reuters) - Peru's civil war is over but fighters from the Shining Path rebel group have joined the country's cocaine trade, turning a lawless bundle of valleys into a security problem for President Alan Garcia. A civil war killed around 70,000 people in the 1980s and 1990s when Shining Path's Maoist guerrillas nearly ...

Peruvian President Alan Garcia denied Thursday that his government invented a tale about murderous fat-thieves to distract from allegations of police death squad killings, saying the claim was fundamentally true even if it became exaggerated. Garcia also rejected a recent magazine report alleging that police carried out the ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's President Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday condemned as haughty and offensive comments by Peru's leader Alan Garcia over a spy scandal that has stirred century-old tensions between the neighbors. Garcia on Monday demanded a detailed explanation from Chile after Peru detained one of its own air force officers on suspicion of treason for allegedly spying for ...