Friday, August 31, 2007

Click here for resources on how and where to send aid in response to the August 15 earthquake.

Though quake news tapers off as Mario Testino's photograph of Diana hits the society pages (including the Washington Post), the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs released their 'Earthquake OCHA Situation Report No. 13'.

Luis Horna was defeated yesterday in the second round of the Men's Singles in the US Open by Nicolas Almagro, 6-4, 6-2, 2-1 (US Open) but Peru's U-17 team in Korea plays in the quarter finals tomorrow.

Apparently investors and politicians are willing to ponder a railway from Paita, Peru to Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil perhaps forgetting the type of Amazon topograph in northeastern Peru.

And the Houston Chronicle's Eileen McClelland has a series of travel articles focused on Cuzco and Lima.

GENERAL QUAKE UPDATE:

Deaths already officially certified
519
Injured
1,366
Houses destroyed*
60,519
Houses affected
14,553
Hospitals destroyed*
14
Hospitals affected
103
(*according to Peruvian Government preliminary assessments)

RELIEF & RESPONSE:
MICRO/MACRO ECONOMICS:
  • 'Brazil, Chile Peru Top LatAm Priorities, Suez Energy' (BNAmericas)
  • 'Mitsui Mining & Smelting: To Develop New Peru Zinc Mine' (Dow Jones)
  • 'Century Mining Starts up at San Juan' (Century Mining press release)
  • 'Initiative to Build Peru/Brazil Railway System' (ITS International) "ProInversión is currently analysing a private initiative to build a railway system to connect the northern Peruvian port Paita with port Cruzeiro do Sul ... firms planned on building a US$10.5 billion railroad connecting Brazil's Santos port with Peru's Paita port. The new line would stretch 5,600km, of which 1,594km would be built in Peru."
  • 'Congress May Move Quickly on Peru Trade: Aides' (Reuters, Doug Palmer)
  • 'Peru's Deforestation Rate Surged in 2005' (Mongabay, Rhett Butler)
  • 'Sulliden Appeals to the Supreme Court of Peru' (Sulliden Exploration press release)
SPORTS:
  • 'Peru Chasing the Dream, Ghana Expectant' (FIFA) re: U-17 Wold Cup: Peru - Ghana, Changwon, Saturday 1 September, 19:00 (local Korean time) See Schedule at BBC
OTHER NEWS:
  • 'Katrina-Damaged Cars for Sale in South America' (Andean Currents, C. J. Schexnayder)
  • 'Careful with the Toys' (InterPress Service, Diego Cevallos) "In mid-August, Peruvian police seized three tonnes of toys that reportedly emitted a strong odour and showed excessively bright colouring."
  • 'Cultural Icon Celebrates 75th Birthday' (Liberty Tribune) "Harriman said he was invited to [Juan Diego] Florez's April 2008 wedding in Lima."
  • 'Peru Recovering US Plunder' (Prensa Latina, Cuba) re: Yale/Hiram Bingham artifacts
  • 'Highway Condemned Because of Uncontacted Tribes' (Survivor International)
  • 'Art of Murder - FBI Confidential: Hearts Stolen in New Trailer' (File Front) re: television program; "her case will start off in New York City, but eventually she’ll find herself in Peru and traipsing through the Amazon jungle."
TRAVEL:
The Houston Chronicle has a series of travel articles by Eileen McClelland posted almost simultaneously including articles on Cuzco and Lima.

PERUANOS en el EXTERIOR:
  • 'Katrina Changed the Demographic Face of the South' (Clarion-Ledger) re: Isabel Aredo
  • 'Ex-Cook Files a Discrimination Lawsuit' (Deseret Morning News, Deborah Bulkeley) "Alleges that Alessandro Visconti's Peruvian heritage played a role in his being denied promotions and in his eventual dismissal."
  • 'Officer Dragged During Traffic Stop Gone Awry' (The Record, Donald Allerton, New Jersey) "A man believed to be a Peruvian national was arrested on Thursday when he hijacked a Passaic County Sheriff’s Department vehicle and later had to be rescued from the Passaic River, authorities said."
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