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Overview
- Official SINADEF data show 37 homicides nationwide in the first week of January, with 15 in Lima and Callao.
- Prosecutors report about 56 transport drivers were killed in 2025 and at least five more in early 2026, largely tied to extortion, with new bus bomb attacks reported in San Martín de Porres and San Juan de Lurigancho.
- Prime Minister Ernesto Álvarez said it is impossible to stop criminal gangs in the next three to four months, while touting a forthcoming national security plan and acknowledging policing and intelligence shortfalls.
- Security analysts say emergency decrees lack structural follow-through, citing weak targeted intelligence, limited territorial control, unreformed prisons, and a CEIC that has not published crime reports since 2021.
- A high-profile case in Comas saw an alleged hitman, identified as Ángel Enrique Paredes Ramos (“Cantú”), fatally shot by an off-duty Escuadrón Verde officer after a combi driver was killed in a suspected extortion attack.