Lima, Oct 8, 2026 (AFP) - Peru creates joint military-police command to fight organized crime

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2026-10-08

Peru's right-wing President Keiko Fujimori announced on Wednesday the creation of a joint military-police authority that will take charge of fighting the crime wave sweeping the country. The Andean nation is going through its worst security crisis in decades, fueled by the spread of local and foreign criminal gangs that oversee contract killings and extortion. Homicides in the country rose from 1,000 in 2018 to 2,600 last year, while reports of e......

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