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Dan Collyns

Dan Collyns is a British multimedia journalist based in Peru.

June 2024

  • Bolivian president Luis Arce outside the government palace in La Paz after the confrontation

    Bolivia’s president accused of plotting coup against himself to boost popularity

  • Bolivia's sacked army head Gen Juan José Zúñiga Macías is arrested after an apparent coup attempt against President Luis Arce.

    Former heads of Bolivia’s army and navy arrested over failed coup

May 2024

  • A man wearing a brown plaid shirt, jeans, and a baseball hat poses in front of a cityscape.

    Rights and freedom
    Peruvian reporter is target of smear campaign after taking on political elite

  • Woman dressed in pink suit holds necklace and sits with man in front of Peruvian flags

    Brother and lawyer of Peru president held as corruption inquiry widens

April 2024

  • A person stands next to boxes with electoral kits ahead of the referendum, on 10 April in Quito, Ecuador.

    Ecuadoreans to vote in referendum on unprecedented security measures

    President is calling for sweeping security measures designed to empower police and armed forces against organised crime
  • Peru's President Dina Boluarte shows a piece of jewellery during a press conference. She has denied wrongdoing in the ‘Rolexgate’ scandal

    Peru’s embattled president dismisses ‘Rolexgate’ investigation as a ‘smoke-screen’

    Dina Boluarte has denied wrongdoing after being accused of illicit enrichment in relation to her use of at least three Rolex watches and designer jewellery
  • woman speaks into a microphone

    Peru president Dina Boluarte under pressure amid ‘Rolexgate’ scandal

    President under investigation over allegedly owning jewellery worth $500,000 despite earning a monthly salary of $3,320

March 2024

  • Men and women wait outside embassy building

    Scramble at the border as DR tightens security amid surging Haiti turmoil

    Haitians endure long queues for food in neighboring Dominican Republic but humanitarian crisis set to intensify

February 2024

  • Locals clean the rubble of burnt-out houses after forest fires reached their neighborhood in Vina del Mar, Chile, Sunday, 4 February 2024. (AP Photo/Cristobal Basaure)

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘It was total panic – with black smoke, falling fireballs and tongues of flame’: the terror of Chile’s wildfires

    A long drought followed by exceptional heat and wind brought deadly blazes that ripped with devastating speed through the coastal town of Viña del Mar

January 2024

  • black and white photo of people comforting one another

    The Guardian picture essay
    Decades after the country’s internal conflict, Peruvians lay murdered family members to rest – a photo essay

  • Freelance journalist Dan Collyns explains why Ecuador has experienced a sudden surge in violence that has led to thousands fleeing the country

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    How drug gangs brought bloodshed to Ecuador – video explainer

  • Military personnel on guard in Quito, Ecuador.

    Ecuador ‘at war’ with drug gangs, says president as violence continues

  • Ecuador police arrest several armed men who broke into the set of a public television channel

    Armed gangs and prison breaks: how Ecuador was plunged into chaos and bloodshed

  • Armed gang storms Ecuador TV station as state of ‘internal armed conflict’ declared

  • Ecuador declares emergency as drug-gang kingpin vanishes from prison

December 2023

  • Colin Armstrong.

    Ecuador: British businessman and former consul Colin Armstrong kidnapped from home

    The 78-year-old was driven away in his own BMW alongside his Colombian partner, according to a police report
  • Peruvian former president Alberto Fujimori waves as he is driven away from prison in Lima, Peru, on Wednesday night.

    Alberto Fujimori, Peru’s divisive former president, released from jail

    The 85-year-old was pictured leaving prison in Lima where he was serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses
  • Peru's former president Alberto Fujimori listens to a question during his testimony in a courtroom in Callao, Peru, on 15 March 2018.

    International court urges Peru not to release ex-president Fujimori from jail

    Country’s highest court orders freeing of Alberto Fujimori as Inter-American court points to conviction of human rights crimes

November 2023

  • Seven men carrying spears stand by a river looking at a mechanical digger on the opposite bank

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Leave the gold in the ground’: Ecuador’s forest guardians mobilise against illegal mining in Amazon

    The Indigenous A’i Cofán people invoke their ancestors and carry spears but also use drones, GPS mapping and the courts as they fight to protect their land from a rapacious gold rush

October 2023

  • Lucha Reyes

    ‘There was no one better’: Peruvian singer finally takes her place among all-time greats

    She was compared to Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf. Now, fifty years after her death, Lucha Reyes finds a new audience
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