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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is headed to South America again. He sets off Thursday on a four-day tour that will take him to Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Colombia. It will be Pompeo’s sixth trip to Latin America in less than a year in office. What’s atop his agenda this time? Ramping up hemispheric efforts against Venezuela’s dictator Nicolas Maduro in support of interim President Juan Guaido.

Clash happened during operation to capture leader of holdout troops

At least six people were killed in a clash between remnants of the defunct Shining Path rebel group and a military patrol in a coca-growing valley in central Peru, a Defense Ministry unit reported Saturday.

Following the January mobilization to protest the removal from office of Peru’s Indigenous President Pedro Castillo, unofficial reports indicate continuing resistance to the Dina Boluarte assumed Presidency. The Boluarte government is backed by an extreme right Parliament and the country’s military. As well as the U.S. and Canada alone among countries of the Americas. It represents

Corruption is top of mind in Peru, where political crisis and protests have gripped the nation since December.

I am very pleased indeed to welcome back

Racism is a daily feature of life and has turned many people intensely against those who are protesting in their regions or have come to the capital to make themselves heard

The roots of the Peruvian crisis go beyond the standoff between ex-President Castillo’s supporters and the government.

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian President Dina Boluarte pledged a crackdown on "narcoterrorism" on Monday, speaking at the funeral of seven police officers gunned down in an area where drug traffickers operate in alliance with remnants of Shining Path militants.