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Late-December Violence Exposes Security Strains in Peru and Argentina

Investigations are ongoing across multiple killings as authorities weigh possible organized crime links, gender-based attacks and claims of self-defense.

Overview

  • In Lima’s Comas district, motorcyclist John Jairo Lord Contreras was gunned down and 27 shell casings were recovered as police probe a possible organized-crime hit.
  • Municipal cameras in San Juan de Miraflores captured a group assault that ended with a fatal gunshot to an unidentified man, with forensics confirming firearm wounds.
  • In Barrios Altos, relatives say Gisela was doused with gasoline and set on fire by her partner; she remains in critical condition and the suspect, identified as Rafael Félix Hilario Guido, is fugitive.
  • In Lomas del Mirador/Liniers, Janet Arotinco Palomino, 44, was stabbed to death while walking; investigators ruled out robbery and the attacker remains at large.
  • In Argentina, a Mendoza driver was detained on an attempted-homicide charge after running over a 19-year-old suspected thief who later underwent double leg amputations, while a Quilmes prosecutor ruled an off-duty officer who killed two alleged motochorros acted in legitimate defense.