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Security & Strategic Review - February 2025
PERU: Bomb attacks in two cities
“Organised crime is on the offensive,” Peru’s Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzén warned on 23 January, saying that the country is at risk from “a crime wave that has not been seen before”. At times since President Dina Boluarte’s government took office in December 2022, the government’s emphasis on the threat posed by crime has appeared hyperbolic. However, the threat appeared very real indeed on 20 January, when a bomb was detonated outside the regional attorney general’s office in the north-western city of Trujillo. A second bomb attack four days later targeted a nightclub in the capital Lima, raising concerns about the increasingly brazen tactics of criminal groups.
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