Organised crime in Peru
[4] Barrio King, led by Gerson Gálvez Calle, is based in Callao and is known as Peru's largest drug ring.
[5] The criminal organisation had control over shipping centers to facilitate drug trafficking and was responsible for the many deaths in Peru.
[3] Most cocaine labs were situated in the jungle between the Putumayo and the River Amazon, and Caballococha became a gathering location for drug traffickers and producers.
[10] He has been indicted for being a member of a criminal organisation that trafficked drugs from coca-producing valley of Alto Huallaga to Colombia during the 1980s and 1990s.
[10] Peru is one of the many countries that followed the Marry-your-rapist law, which refers to as the exemption from punishment for a rapist by marrying their victims.
[2] In 1980, Sendero Luminoso declared war against the Peruvian government by burning ballot boxes that was going to be used in the first democratic election in Peru.
[2] The Shining Path operating in the Huallaga River region since the 1980s was financed and supplied weapons by David Bazan Arevalo.
[12] The criminal organisation took 71 hostages and attacked oil installations in Peru, as well as ambushing a police patrol and killing eight officials.
[7] Arevalo was part of a 2007 terrorist attack that resulted in the murder of a public prosecutor and three police officers in Tocache, which is known as one of the most crime-plagued regions of Peru.
[14] Pets are also products for sale involving live species such as parrots, monkeys, and tortoises found in Peru traded to Amazonas.
[14] The Ministry of Production, which is responsible for protecting endangered species have been caught illegally facilitating shark fin trade.
[22] The project was able to collect more than 16,000 testimonies from victims and witnesses, and aired on radios and national television as an act to raise awareness about violence and human rights.
[23] The cocaine boom in the late 1990s came to an end when the Peruvian Air Force and DEA carried out tighter protection networks.
[3] Armed civilians in Peru organise their own protection and security, such as the Comités de Autodefensa (CADS), which coordinated the community for self-defence.
[4] Community conservation of ecosystems and species by local people manage and enforce their own regulations, however, socio-political problems sometimes hinder creation of reserves for private land protection.
[13] Local Peruvians in communal organisations have provided environmental education and have controlled and reduced land invasion, from threats of climate change and to promote a harmonious relationship with nature.
