Franklin Briceno

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In this Sept. 19, 2014 photo, a military helicopter flies over the VRAEM region, in Pichari, Peru. The region in the Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro River Valleys, or VRAEM, is the world's No. 1 coca-growing region. Security forces destroyed in the last two weeks more than 50 clandestine airstrips used by drug traffickers in the biggest offensive that seeks to combat the intense drug airlift to Bolivia. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Dynamiting barely dents Peru’s narco air bridge

Franklin Briceno · September 22, 2014 4:03 am

A shirt that belonged to a person who was exhumed from a mass grave at the Los Cabitos army base in Ayacucho province is displayed for the press at the Public Ministry in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014. According to prosecutors, the clothes displayed on Tuesday belonged to 53 civilians who were allegedly slain by soldiers during Peru's two-decade-long conflict that claimed nearly 70,000 lives. Government prosecutors have opened one case against soldiers who worked at the Los Cabitos army base base between 1983 and 1996. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Clothing of 53 victims exhumed at Peru base shown

Franklin Briceno · September 10, 2014 12:39 am

In this Aug. 2, 2014 photo, Maria Torero, plays with a group of 175 cats with leukemia in her home in Lima, Peru. Torero says caring for cats with feline leukemia is her responsibility. Anybody else can care for healthy animals. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

AP PHOTOS: Peruvian nurse cares for 175 sick cats

Franklin Briceno · August 20, 2014 11:57 am

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2005 file photo, Dutch teen Joran van der Sloot, 18, enters his family's car as his mother Anita closes the door after he was conditionally released from the KAI jail in San Nicolas, Aruba. Van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway, married his pregnant Peruvian girlfriend on Friday, July 4, 2014 in a ceremony at the maximum-security prison where he is serving 28 years for murdering a woman he met in a Lima casino. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch, File)

Joran van der Sloot ties the knot in Peru prison

Franklin Briceno · July 5, 2014 3:20 am

Peru’s Humala backs minister despite murder probe

Peru’s Humala backs minister despite murder probe

Franklin Briceno · July 3, 2014 11:30 pm

Sweden returns pre-Incan funeral shroud to Peru

Franklin Briceno · June 16, 2014 11:30 pm

Amazon Indians, victims of war, exhumed in Peru

Franklin Briceno · June 10, 2014 6:02 pm

Peru drug police break up cocaine ring at airport

Peru drug police break up cocaine ring at airport

Franklin Briceno · June 6, 2014 3:21 am

Peru postpones coca crop destruction

Franklin Briceno · June 2, 2014 8:41 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2010, file photo, Peru's Amazon leader Alberto Pizango looks on during an act after announcing his candidacy for Peru's 2011 presidential elections in Lima, Peru. Pizango and 52 others went on trial Wednesday in the killing of a dozen police officers after security forces fired on protesters opposed to plans to open the Amazon to widespread logging and oil drilling. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Peru Indian leader on trial for highway massacre

Franklin Briceno · May 15, 2014 1:41 am

Peru lawyer: jailed Van der Sloot to be a father

Franklin Briceno · May 14, 2014 5:01 pm

Russian's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, helps Peru's Foreign Miniterv Eda Rivas before a joint press conference at the Foreign Ministry building in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Lavrov is Lima, for a one day visit in his tour of Latin America. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Russia FM: OSCE can oversee Ukraine dialogue

Franklin Briceno · May 1, 2014 7:10 am