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At least 12 people were killed after a powerful earthquake struck southern Ecuador. According to United States Geological Survey, the 6.8-magnitude quake occurred Saturday afternoon in the country’s coastal Guayas region. It was centered about 50 miles south of Guayaquil, Ecuador’s second-largest city that has a reported population of three million. Cristian Torres, head of Ecuador’s emergency response agency, said 11 […]
Peruvian authorities say they’ve detained a man who was allegedly found carrying an ancient mummy. According to the BBC, 26-year-old Julio Cesar Bermejo was taken into custody Saturday after he and two others were spotted at an archaeological site in Puno. Police confronted the seemingly intoxicated Bermejo at the scene and noticed he was carrying a large red cooler […]
Drug traffickers are coming up with even more inventive ways to ship cocaine. According to a press release from U.S. Border Patrol, the agency seized a shipment of cereal arriving from South America that contained 44 pounds of cocaine, disguising it with corn flakes that were covered in the substance instead of sugar. The amount of drugs in […]
According to an announcement from Peru’s Ministry of Culture, a massive carving of an ancient cat has been discovered on an arid hillside in the southern part of that country. This carving was reportedly made more than 2,000 years ago, stretches 121-feet in length and makes up part of the nation’s famed Nazca Lines. For those unfamiliar (a.k.a. […]
A police raid on a Peruvian nightclub ended in the deaths of at least 13 people, who were crushed while attempting to escape. Authorities entered the Thomas Restobar Club in Lima after discovering it was violating coronavirus guidelines, with the partygoers dying right at they tried to leave, BBC reports. Another six people were injured, […]
Jaime Rolando Urbina Torres, mayor of Tantará, a small town in Peru, was hanging out with friends drinking on Monday night when police arrived to enforce a country-wide lockdown. To avoid being detained for curfew and social distancing violations due to COVID-19, an inebriated Torres pretended to be dead while his friends did the more logical thing of hiding in nearby drawers, the New […]
Alan García, the former president of Peru, has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. CNN reports that police were on their way to arrest the politician on Wednesday morning, but when they arrived at his home at 6:30 a.m. with a search warrant, a loud gunshot was heard. They eventually discovered García with a wound to his […]
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