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Peru

Crime

The Gilded Age

Gold mined in the jungles of Peru brought riches to three friends in Miami—but it also carried ruin.

Scott Eden The Atavist Magazine Jan 2021 2h40min Permalink

Politics World

What Led Peru’s Former President to Take His Own Life?

Once the bright young hope of the Latin-American left, Alan García was caught up in an epic corruption investigation.

Daniel Alarcón New Yorker Jul 2019 30min Permalink

Business Science

Climate Change Could Destroy His Home in Peru. So He Sued an Energy Company in Germany.

Local communities are taking the world’s largest polluters to court. And they’re using the legal strategy that got tobacco companies to pay up.

Brooke Jarvis The New York Times Magazine Apr 2019 20min Permalink

Crime World

Blurred Vision

Looking for answers after an ayahuasca murder in Peru.

Matthew Bremner Men's Journal Mar 2019 25min Permalink

The Contestant

Ruth Thalí became an overnight sensation on a game show. Then she disappeared.

Daniel Alarcón California Sunday Oct 2014 25min Permalink

World

An Isolated Tribe Emerges from the Rain Forest

In Peru, an unsolved killing has brought the Mashco Piro into contact with the outside world.

John Lee Anderson New Yorker Aug 2016 40min Permalink

Crime World

The Mercenary

Roy Petersen was blind in one eye, had two replaced hips, and was twice divorced. His job was to solve a gold mine robbery case in the Peruvian Andes. He would need some help.

Joshua Davis Epic Aug 2013 Permalink

Best Article World

Mother of God, Child of Zeus

On the perils and poisons of mining for gold in southeastern Peru.

Jessica Benko The Virginia Quarterly Review 30min Permalink

Crime World

The Liberation of Lori Berenson

After nearly 15 years in a Peruvian prison, an American woman convicted of aiding a Marxist terrorist group finds parole in Lima full of contradictions.

Jennifer Egan New York Times Magazine Mar 2011 Permalink