LIMA, Peru (AP) — Joran van der Sloot knew his guilty plea in the strangulation death of a young woman he met at a Lima casino was a big gamble as he tried to get a reduced sentence. On Friday, the poker-loving Dutchman lost. (more)
LIMA, Peru (AP) — After Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino, his lawyer argued that the killing was tragically triggered by fallout from the very event that originally brought his client notoriety. (more)
President Barack Obama’s campaign heads to the Pacific and Asian corners of the world this week where his public relations crew will produce a symphony of visuals for American voters. The nine day trip will include visits to San Diego, Hawaii, Australia, Bali and Indonesia. (more)
Beth Holloway, mother of missing American teen Natalee Holloway, broke into a Peru prison to confront Joran van der Sloot – the man suspected in the case of the younger Holloway’s 2005 disappearance – Beth Holloway’s attorney, John Kelly, confirmed on Friday’s Today show. (more)
In 1972 I was an eyewitness to the utopian ideals of redistribution of wealth and state run production of a South American economy. (more)
A man with a mysterious bulge under his T-shirt was stopped, searched and detained at Mexico City’s international airport after authorities found 18 tiny endangered monkeys in a girdle he was wearing. (more)
LIMA, Peru — While the United States and Europe fret over huge deficits and threats to a fragile recovery, this region has a surprise in store. Latin America, beset in the past by debt defaults, currency devaluations and the need for bailouts from rich countries, is experiencing robust economic growth that is the envy of its northern counterparts. (more)
Joran van der Sloot has filed a complaint with Peruvian police claiming that his constitutional rights and his right to a defense were violated after his arrest in connection with the killing of a Peruvian woman. (more)
AMSTERDAM — Joran van der Sloot, the main suspect in the killing of a young woman in Peru last month and in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway, suffers from mental problems, his mother told a Dutch newspaper in an interview published on its website Sunday. (more)
Joran van der Sloot’s ex-girlfriend says the accused killer “was amazing” and a “romantic” — and that she never witnessed his dark side, according to a bombshell interview. (more)
(CNN) — The mother of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway talked to the family of a murdered Peruvian woman whose case may be linked to her daughter’s, the Peruvian family told CNN’s sister network In Session. (more)
In a basement in La Paz used as an improvised warehouse, millions and millions of coca leaves – cocaine’s raw material – are stockpiled in white, grey and blue bags. (more)
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Joran van der Sloot told police in Chile that it was an unidentified robber who beat a young woman to death in his hotel room, a killing for which the Dutchman has been charged with murder in Peru. (more)
LIMA, Peru (AP) — For all of his garrulous charm, Joran van der Sloot didn’t do himself any favors in his online interactions, where his generation tends to reveal a lot about itself. (more)
Dutch murder suspect Joran van der Sloot says he’ll reveal the location of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway’s body if authorities transfer him from Peru’s most infamous prison to a jail in Aruba, Radio Netherlands Worldwide reports Sunday. (more)
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Dutch murder suspect Joran van der Sloot told police investigators that he knows the location of the body of missing U.S. teen Natalee Holloway, the chief of Peru’s criminal police said. (more)
Joran van der Sloot is a sick man with a bad case of the munchies. (more)
In an effort to build an extortion case against Joran van der Sloot, the FBI gave the suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway the money that he used to fund the trip to Peru where he allegedly attacked and killed Stephany Flores, says a private investigator. (more)
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian police plan to take Joran van der Sloot, who they say has confessed to last week’s killing of a 21-year-old business student in his Lima hotel room, to visit the crime scene, officials said Tuesday. (more)
LIMA, Peru – A Dutch man long suspected in the disappearance of an Alabama teen in Aruba was arrested Thursday in the murder of a young woman in Peru. (more)
