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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 …

Commentary Carolyn Bennett, federal minister of mental health and addictions, recently announced a change to Canada’s policies on ...

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ACCOMARCA, Peru (CNS) — Hundreds of people gathered in this tiny Andean village for the...

In contemporary accounts of the Shining Path insurgency and Perus internal war, the Upper Huallaga Valley has largely been overlooked. Yet its former place as the countrys main cocaine-producing region meant that it was a central if more covert and evasive location where the conflict unfolded. From afar, the region became a political and legal no mans land. Up close, vibrant networks of connection endured despite strict controls on human habitation and movement. This book asks what happens to su...

Accomarca was the scene of the worst massacre during Peru's 20-year Shining Path insurgency. The late Maoist cult leader Abimael Guzman believed the blood of peasants ought to irrigate his violent revolution.

ACCOMARCA, Peru (AP) — Scene of one of the worst massacres of Perus internal conflict...

Families of some of the victims of a 1985 massacre carried out by soldiers hunting Shining Path guerillas in the...

This community in the Andean region of Ayacucho made a start Thursday on healing the wounds from the slaughter of 69 residents in 1985 by Peruvian army troops who falsely accused the villagers of supp. Peruvian community strives to heal wounds from 1985 massacre | Outstanding | English edition | Agencia EFE