The Gilded Age
Gold mined in the jungles of Peru brought riches to three friends in Miami—but it also carried ruin.
Gold mined in the jungles of Peru brought riches to three friends in Miami—but it also carried ruin.
Scott Eden The Atavist Magazine Jan 2021 2h40min Permalink
Once the bright young hope of the Latin-American left, Alan García was caught up in an epic corruption investigation.
Daniel Alarcón New Yorker Jul 2019 30min Permalink
Local communities are taking the world’s largest polluters to court. And they’re using the legal strategy that got tobacco companies to pay up.
Brooke Jarvis The New York Times Magazine Apr 2019 20min Permalink
Looking for answers after an ayahuasca murder in Peru.
Matthew Bremner Men's Journal Mar 2019 25min Permalink
Ruth Thalí became an overnight sensation on a game show. Then she disappeared.
Daniel Alarcón California Sunday Oct 2014 25min Permalink
In Peru, an unsolved killing has brought the Mashco Piro into contact with the outside world.
John Lee Anderson New Yorker Aug 2016 40min Permalink
Roy Petersen was blind in one eye, had two replaced hips, and was twice divorced. His job was to solve a gold mine robbery case in the Peruvian Andes. He would need some help.
Joshua Davis Epic Aug 2013 Permalink
On the perils and poisons of mining for gold in southeastern Peru.
After nearly 15 years in a Peruvian prison, an American woman convicted of aiding a Marxist terrorist group finds parole in Lima full of contradictions.