Iquitos was an extreme case of the social breakdown ... which in 2020 was allegedly the most corrupt in Peru. The black market in oxygen was capitalism in its most cannibalistic form.

Peru's niche Bretaña crude oil is gaining popularity in the United States, with the first cargo discharging in the U.S. Gulf ...

Some 87 US Marines are being deployed for the 16-day joint Bilateral Jungle Operations Exchange with the local Navy at the Iquitos Base, it was reported in Lima. The presence of the foreign troops ...

Currently counting more than 500,000 inhabitants, Iquitos is now the largest city in the Western Amazon. The cultivation of coca has had major impacts on the development of Peru’s Amazonian regions.