LIMA, Peru — At a Roman Catholic elementary school on the ramshackle outskirts of Lima, students are rambunctious and seemingly carefree. By contrast, school administrators are stressing out. One ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bus drivers in Peru's capital Lima went on a strike Thursday to protest a wave of robberies and extortions by criminal gangs.

The president of one of Lima's largest parent-teacher associations says at least 1,000 schools in the Peruvian capital are being extorted and that... In Peru, criminal gangs are targeting schools in ...