Safety: Peru
Key Facts
—A pre-dawn attack in Trujillo on Sunday killed four people and kidnapped mining businessman Jens Marty Lara Tantaquilla, 31. He remained missing on Monday morning.
—The armed forces will take outside control of five maximum-security prisons to cut the phone networks that run extortion from inside — though the defence minister could not say when the operation starts.
—Reported extortion cases jumped from 4,761 in 2021 to more than 22,000 in 2024, according to the attorney general’s office, and kidnapping for ransom has returned.
