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Byline: Gustavo Gorriti Gustavo Gorriti es director de IDL-Reporteros, una publicación digital dedicada al periodismo de investigación en el Perú. Las protestas urbanas sacudieron America Latina en 2019, sobre todo [...]

The lame-duck Bush Administration might be promoting democracy elsewhere, but not in South America. As the U.S. moves, gingerly but methodically, toward normalizing relations with Peru, persecution there is reaching […]

The scars left by the Shining Path's July offensive against Lima are all too evident. The windows of many office buildings in the middle- and upper-class districts of the capital […]

Officials and journalists who visit the Santa Lucia base in the heart of the coca-carpeted Upper Huallaga Valley in Peru are often taken on a tour of Cocaland, the drug […]

To borrow an Andean phrase, one would think that Panamanians should be as happy as a dog with two tails. Under the 1977 Panama Canal Treaties, Panamanians are about to […]

Peru's Channel Two resumed broadcast a few hours after Shining Path terrorists exploded a truck bomb outside the station's premises. The attack killed the station's news producer, Alejandro Perez. Journalists were also convinced that some of the death threats that they were getting were coming from people close to National Intelligence Service director Vladimiro Montesinos. A few hours before the Channel Two blast, a small bomb was thrown at the house of journalist and retired general Luis Cisneros. Cisneros had made public criticisms against Montesinos.

omments on the absence of United States President Bill Clinton at the ceremonies marking the transition from American to Panamanian control of the canal. Information on the building of the canal; Americans in charge of the effort; Significance of the treaties signed in 1977 concerning the canal.

Opinion. Argues about Panama's violation of its own laws on press freedom. Attempts by the government to expel editors of the `La Prensa' newspaper; Reflection of the author's experience as a journalist in Peru; Type of articles which were written in the newspaper which offended the government of Panama.

Opinion. Comments on the issue of journalists gaining public respect in the United States in comparison to the journalism industry in Latin America. Reference to incidents in which journalists extended public apologies in the US; Effects of social issues in Latin America on journalism; Statements from Joel Simon of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Provides information on the taking of hostages at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru, on December 17, 1996, by members of the Tupac Amaru rebels group. What event took place at the ambassador's residence on this day; Examination of President Alberto Fujimori's actions after incident; Comments made by freed hostages about their captors.

Opinion. Analyzes the defeat of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua's presidential elections in October 1996. Ortega's image makeover; Shift in ideology; Implications of his defeat in political trends in Latin America; Poignancy of Ortega's failure to return to power.