Frank Bajak

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2 Peru governor candidates win despite drug probes

Frank Bajak · October 6, 2014 6:37 pm

National Security

Cocaine cash is polluting Peruvian politics

Frank Bajak · October 4, 2014 4:19 pm

Police meet widows of slain indigenous leaders

Frank Bajak · September 9, 2014 8:52 pm

Top Peruvian foe of illegal logging brutally slain

Frank Bajak · September 9, 2014 12:47 am

Top South America hackers rattle Peru’s Cabinet

Frank Bajak · September 2, 2014 9:17 pm

Peruvian journalist Zileri dead at 83

Frank Bajak · August 26, 2014 12:10 am

FILE - In this May 14, 2013 file photo, the open-pit Antamina mine in San Marcos, Peru, is partially illuminated on a cloudy day. A new law enacted July 11 by President Ollanta Humala, weakens environmental protections in the Andean nation as it prepares to host international climate-control talks. At the same time, it re-establishes tax breaks for big mining multinationals, which already enjoy such benefits as simultaneous, indefinite concessions for both exploration and exploitation as long as they make nominal payments. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Energy and Environment

New Peru law weakens environmental safeguards

Frank Bajak · July 20, 2014 4:02 am

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, left, and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden give a press conference at the presidential palace in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. Biden met with Santos just three days after Colombia's president won re-election in what was widely seen as an endorsement of talks to end the Western Hemisphere's last sizable armed conflict. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

Biden firmly backs Colombia peace effort

Frank Bajak · June 18, 2014 9:53 pm

President Juan Manuel Santos celebrates his victory in the presidential runoff at his campaign headquarters in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, June 15, 2014. Santos defeated challenger Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, of the Democratic Center, and won a second four-year term. (AP Photo/Santiago Cortez)

Santos re-elected Colombia president in peace vote

Frank Bajak · June 16, 2014 3:05 am

FILE - In this June 9, 2014 file photo, presidential candidate Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, left, points as he faces Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos during a televised debate in Bogota, Colombia. Colombia's nastiest presidential campaign in years has focused largely on a single issue: Santos' prescription for ending the nation's half-century-old guerrilla conflict. Colombia will hold a presidential runoff election on Sunday, June 15. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Nasty campaign done, Colombia vote hinges on peace

Frank Bajak · June 13, 2014 10:14 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2013, file photo, photo, Ancash Gov. Cesar Alvarez talks on his cell phone in Lima, Peru. A Peruvian judge ordered the arrest of Alvarez, Thursday May 15, 2014, on murder charges in the March gangland-style slaying of a political rival who had accused him of running a corrupt, violent mini-dictatorship in a rich mining state. (AP Photo/Edwin Julca, File)

Peru governor faces arrest on murder charges

Frank Bajak · May 16, 2014 12:45 am

Peru state a violent ‘mini-dictatorship’

Frank Bajak · April 13, 2014 5:16 am