Bodies of 13 workers kidnapped from a Peruvian gold mine are found

What is known about the kidnapping and murder of 13 miners in Pataz for which the president of Peru declared the curfew in the area By: Guillermo D. Olmo-BBC News Mundo The murder of 13 people in a Pataz mine, in the department of La Libertad, shocked Peru and highlighted the security crisis in the country.The bodies of the 13 workers were found on Sunday with indications of having been executed in cold blood in a sinkhole inside a mine owned by…

Grisly Peru mining murders spotlight Andes 'gold curse'

TRUJILLO, Peru — Peruvianas aware of the risks, but the lure of gold deep in the Andean rock of northern Pataz province outweighed the danger. Now he and 12 others are dead in one of the country's worst mining massacres.

Peru Halts Gold Mining After 13 Workers Massacred

Peru's president Dina Boluarte has suspended gold mining for 30 days and imposed a 12-hour curfew in the northern province of Pataz after 13 contracted gold mine workers were found killed inside a tunnel. The workers, employed by a local firm, were discovered by police after reportedly being held captive...

Peru Suspends Pataz Gold Mining After Execution of 13 Workers

President Dina Boluarte suspended gold mining in Pataz for 30 days after illegal miners executed 13 subcontracted workers. The government imposed a nightly curfew from 6 pm to 6 am and ordered the armed forces to assume security control. Officials discovered the remains inside a tunnel on May 4 following the victims’ abduction. Boluarte tasked […]

LATAM BLOG: Gold, murder and the collapse of the Peruvian State

The massacre of thirteen miners in Peru's Pataz exposes a state paralysed by its own laws, captured by criminal economies, and sustained by complicit politicians in the country's collapsing fight against illegal mining.

The massacre of 13 workers in the «The Powerful» mine in Pataz leaves the Government of Dina Boluarte in check that until today it does not give any way out to care for the elephant inside the glass shop, the organized crime behind illegal mining, public transport or extortion, that afflicts the Peruvians and that until today it has triggered the record of deaths compared to the last few years. «The only responsibility for what has happened to t…