Saturday, April 05, 2008
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Necklace Found
Macro
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Necklace Found
- VIDEO: Oldest Gold Jewelry in Americas (National Geographic, via Associated Press)
- Necklace is oldest gold artifact found in Americas (Los Angeles Times, Thomas H. Maugh II)
- From a Burial Pit in Southern Peru, a Golden Oldie (New York Times, Henry Fountain, April 1) "Archaeologists have discovered what appears to be a gold necklace from a 4,000-year-old burial pit in southern Peru. It is the oldest example of worked gold ever found in the Americas."
- 'Ancient Gold Necklace Discovered in Peru' (Associated Press, Randolph E. Schmid)
Macro
- Peruvian Sol Rises Against Dollar (Miami Herald) "Peru's sol reached a decade high against the dollar ... to 2.6925 per USA dollar."
- Fitch's investment grade ranking will boost Peru (MarketWatch, Polya Lesova) "Fitch Ratings upgraded Wednesday Peru's long-term foreign currency issuer default rating to BBB-, investment grade, from BB+, citing strong improvement in fiscal and external solvency ratios. The outlook is stable."
- Peru welcomes investment grade rating (Financial Times, Naomi Mapstone)
- Bill Gates: Latin America must invest more in education (Associated Press, Laura Wides-Munoz)
- Workers strike at Peru's Doe Run smelter facility (Reuters, by Jean Luis Arce, Pav Jordan)
- Hunters Comb Globe for Hot Metal (Wall Street Journal, Robert Guy Matthews) Featured on A1; see accompanying slide show; copper mining in northern Peru
- In Search of Less Toxic Mining (Inter Press Service, Milagros Salazar) "The Peruvian government is seeking to reduce the maximum allowable emissions of pollutants by the mining industry, but the proposed limits are still a long way from meeting international standards."
- IDB criticized for some energy projects (Miami Herald, Jane Bussey and Jim Wyss)
- Peru's Milpo says Votorantim offer too low (Reuters, Teresa Cespedes)
- Irradia's Peru LNG plan gets nod (Upstream)
- Reuters blog of Latin America Investment Summit
- Buenaventura eyes record gold and silver production (Reuters blog, Lucas Bergman)
- President Garcia with Reuters reporters Marco Aquino and Terry Wade (Reuters, Mariana Bazo)
- See photos of summit
- Peruvian berry offers natural pigments for yoghurt: study (Food Navigator, Stephen Daniells) see also Ohio State University abstract
- Peruvian 3-D animated film "Dragons: Destiny of Fire," at Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 12 (New York Daily News) (Available on DVD in USA on April 8)
- Man, 101, Awarded American Citizenship (United Press International) "Vicento Osorio Rios -- the first centenarian to become a U.S. citizen in Arizona -- came to the United States in 1982 from Peru."
- 'U.S. sees Americas-wide free trade with Latam deals' (Reuters, Missy Ryan, April 2)
- 'Buckner International and Ministry of Women and Social Work Create First Foster Families.' (Baptist Standard, Jenny Pope, March 31)
- More Hispanics retiring to native homelands (Miami Herald, Juan Carlos Chavez, March 31)
- Dennis Hopper's 'The Last Movie' Showing (Los Angeles Times, April 3) "The story concerns an American film crew that goes to the far reaches of Peru to shoot a western."
- Eva Ayllón at Disney Hall (Los Angeles Times, Agustin Gurza, March 10)
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Thursday, April 03, 2008
THE OLYMPICS
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- Peru to send at least 12 athletes to Beijing Olympic Games (Xinhua) "At least 12 athletes will represent Peru in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in August, Peruvian Olympic Committee (COP) spokesman stated on Wednesday."
- Strike Resources may sell Peruvian assets (NineMSN, April 1)
- Graffiti scribbled on ruins of ancient ceremonial site in Peru (Associated Press, March 31)
- Peruvian appointed as head of UN peacekeeping troops in Cyprus (Xinhua) "Peruvian Naval Rear Admiral Mario Sanchez has been appointed as commander of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), to replace Division Gen. Rafael Barni, Peru's Defense Ministry said on Friday."
- ABC Announces 2008 Peruvian Ethnobotany Trip (ABC press release) American Botanical Council (ABC) and the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research (ACEER) announce their 2008 annual Botanical Medicines from the Amazon and the Andes workshop tour. The trip will take place September 26 through October 5."
- From Peruvian Obscurity to a Major Derby Prep (New York Times, Bill Finley) "No one is sure what to make of Tomcito. ... The mystery should be solved Saturday, when the Kentucky-bred, Peruvian-raced Tomcito makes his North American debut in the Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park."
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Monday, March 31, 2008
NECKLACE FOUND
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- Archaeologists Find 4,000-Year-Old Gold Necklace in South Peru (Bloomberg, Ryan Flinn)
- UA Archaeologist Finds Oldest Known Gold Artifacts in the Americas (University of Arizona press release, Jeff Harrison) re: Anthropology Professor Mark Aldenderfer
- Four-thousand-year-old gold artifacts from the Lake Titicaca basin, southern Peru (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) " Artifacts of cold-hammered native gold have been discovered in a secure and undisturbed Terminal Archaic burial context at Jiskairumoko, a multicomponent Late Archaic–Early Formative period site in the southwestern Lake Titicaca basin, Peru."
- Peruvian retailer plans to top Cencosud (Reuters, Jean Luis Arce) "Peruvian retailer Supermercados Peruanos said on Monday it hopes to overtake Chile's Cencosud as Peru's top supermarket operator in the 'next three years'."
- More updates from Reuters Latin American Investment Summit
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