tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57904372024-02-20T20:33:58.338-05:00PeruviaA Synthesis of English Language News on PeruEduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comBlogger404125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-71669559800730614562009-06-21T01:50:00.002-05:002009-09-20T08:45:21.603-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">We always welcome </span></span><a href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">your emails</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> with suggestions or corrections.</span></span><br /><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">New!</span></em></strong> Check out this <a href="http://www.tweetmixx.com/search?is_search=1&sort=&query=peru&commit=Search">TweetMixx</a> or this <a href="http://twitterfall.com/?trend=peru">Twitterfall</a> on all-things Peru.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The Google News widget on the right-hand sidebar as well as The New York Times widget below offers automatic updates on Peru. The tabs on the Times' tool below are not meant to juxtapose individuals but rather an editorial reflection of how the newspaper covers Peru.</span> </p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Kleph's excellent <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Points South's Twitter</span> is also linked in the column to the right.<br /></span><div><br /></div><div><iframe id="widget" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" src="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/widgets/widget.html?widgets=%5B%7B%22name%22%3A%20%22rss_tw%22%2C%20%22title%22%3A%20%22Peru%20News%20-%20Breaking%20World%20Peru%20News%22%2C%20%22source%22%3A%20%22http%3A//topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/peru/index.html%3Frss%3D1%22%2C%20%22maxItems%22%3A%20%2210%22%2C%20%22displayType%22%3A%20%22hs%22%7D%2C%20%7B%22name%22%3A%20%22rss_tw%22%2C%20%22title%22%3A%20%22Alan%20Garcia%20News%22%2C%20%22source%22%3A%20%22http%3A//topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/alan_garcia/index.html%3Frss%3D1%22%2C%20%22maxItems%22%3A%20%2210%22%2C%20%22displayType%22%3A%20%22hs%22%7D%2C%20%7B%22name%22%3A%20%22rss_tw%22%2C%20%22title%22%3A%20%22Mario%20Vargas%20Llosa%20News%22%2C%20%22source%22%3A%20%22http%3A//topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/v/mario_vargas_llosa/index.html%3Frss%3D1%22%2C%20%22maxItems%22%3A%20%2210%22%2C%20%22displayType%22%3A%20%22hs%22%7D%5D" frameborder="0" height="300" scrolling="no" width="100%"></iframe><img style="visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px;" src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEyMzQ2Mzc5OTYwMDUmcHQ9MTIzNDYzNzk5Nzk1NCZwPTE4NDE3MSZkPSZnPTEmdD*mbz1mOGU*NjA*YWNkYmI*YTNlOTAyNmZjNDA2Y2IyZjM1MA==.gif" border="0" height="0" width="0" /></div>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-44013156040870580532009-06-20T09:22:00.000-05:002009-06-24T07:43:11.382-05:00Remembering Faucett OB-1303"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; ">The case in which searchers failed to get either black box was that of a Boeing 727 owned by Faucett, a Peruvian airline, that crashed off Newfoundland in 1990, apparently because of lack of fuel, killing all 16 aboard." <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/world/20plane.html">New York Times</a>, by Alexei Barrionuevo and Matthew L. Wald.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">This Faucett-owned airplane, <a href="http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19900911-0">OB-1303</a>, had just finished being wet-leased to Air Malta. It crashed during its flight back to Peru according to a contemporaneous account in <a href="http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1990/1990%20-%202832.html">Flight International</a> and the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/12/world/peruvian-plane-carrying-18-crashes-off-newfoundland.html">New York Times</a>. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">There is some <a href="http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8864238#post8864238">internet speculation</a> about the cause of the plane's crash - and it is noteworthy that The Times uses "apparently" as the investigation is inconclusive as there was no evidence of the downed aircraft.</span></div>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-84209974254790576242009-03-17T23:42:00.002-05:002009-03-26T13:58:07.377-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/03/17/world/peru.190.333.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 131px; text-align: right; " src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/03/17/world/peru.190.333.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div style="text-align: right; "><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">See Editorial Update below</span></span></span>.<div>Tomorrow's <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/world/americas/18peru.html">New York Times</a> features reporting from Canayre, Apurimac on the continued relationship between coca, cocaine, the Shining Path and the government's response. <div><br />The package includes:</div><div><ul><li>the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/world/americas/18peru.html">article</a>, 'Cocaine Trade Helps Rebels Reignite War In Peru', by Simon Romero (the <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/17/america/17peru.php">International Herald Tribune's</a> version is 'Rebels and Cocaine Revive Old War in Peru').</li><li>a <a href="http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/world/1194811622205/index.html">5-minute video</a> headlined on the web 'A Hunt for Rebels in the Jungles of Peru' but on the video titled, 'Narco Trafficking in Peru's Jungle: The Resurgence of the Shining Path'. It is credited to Simon Romero, Andrea Zarate, and Eric Owles.</li><li>and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/world/20090313-coca-peru/index.html">24 photos online</a>, Inside Peru's Cocaine War, by Moises Saman.</li></ul></div><div>While purportedly about the continued relationship between drugs and the re-emergence of Shining Path ("it rouses the ghosts of a brutal two-decade war"), it is mainly about coca growing in "one of the most remote parts of the Andes", and the government's response to it. Shining Path connections are certainly evident in the region but this reporting doesn't reveal any news on it. </div><div><br /></div><div>Simon Romero has reported on Peru for The Times since 2007.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.artbook.com/8881586460.html">Moises Saman's</a> photographs are stark and vivid particularly in his ability to show what the armed forces or police patrols see. Saman is a Peruvian photographer, has worked off and on in Iraq since 2002, first for Newsday and more recently, for the New York Times. (See his recent book, '<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moises-Saman-Afghanistan-Broken-Promise/dp/8881586460">Afghanistan: Broken Promise</a>'.)</div><div><br /></div><div>The video is also well presented although after a first view a few questions lingered:<br /><ul><li>In the first minute, reporter Simon Romero suggests that 2008 was the deadliest year - but then shows a funeral plot of 2006.</li><li>In the last minute, after video of Prime Minister Yehude Simon offering a village help, reporter Romero says "months later, despite some progress, the villagers are still waiting for the promised aid." So, did the village receive "some progress" and are now waiting for the completed aid?</li></ul><div>Andrea Zarate has been a stringer for the New York Times since 2005 including supporting several pieces on Peru. <a href="http://uconnmagazine.uconn.edu/fwin2008/pf027/">Eric Owles</a>, the paper's Chief Multimedia Producer, has done video pieces on Mexico and Colombia. Most recently he was in The Times' Bahgdad bureau.</div><div><br /></div><div>In general, this was well-produced and financed reporting, on a level that few media outlets could produce. It was largely reported from the VRAE, the Valley Region of the Apurimac and Ene rivers, a region that continues to see extreme poverty and violence, issues that The Times highlighted well. The reporting on the government's response and on Shining Path was more limited - no mention of <a href="http://www.mindef.gob.pe/vrae/">Plan VRAE</a>, or its limitations, and no reporting on what the scope of Shining Path's presence may be in the region.</div><div><br /></div><div>Other recent stories include:</div><div><ul><li>Government Prepares Decree to Speed Up VRAE Roadways (<a href="http://www.bnamericas.com/news/infrastructure/Govt_prepares_decree_to_speed_up_VRAE_roadworks">BNAmericas</a>, March 13, 2009)</li><li>Interview with Carlos Tapia on Canal N, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEtBBzRThgE">Part I</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDi4tQVht_k&feature=related">Part II</a> (Oct 20, 2008)</li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Operacion Militar en el VRAE Obliga a Pobladores a Abandonar Comunidades</span> (<a href="http://www.larepublica.com.pe/content/view/246681/483/">La Republica</a>, Sept 29, 2008)</li><li>Shining Path Rebels and the War On Drugs (<a href="http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40232">Inter Press Service</a>, Nov 27, 2007)</li><li>New York Times reporting on <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/shining_path/index.html?scp=2&sq=%22shining%20path%22&st=cse">Shining Path</a> and <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=cocaine+peru&date_select=full&srchst=cse">cocaine in Peru</a>.</li></ul><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Update</span></span></span>: Assistant Managing Editor Richard Burke talked about this article in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/business/media/16askthetimes.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=peru%20berke&st=cse">an interview</a> later in the week when he was asked about the importance of being first in reporting an article:</div><div><br /></div><div>"We're all about thrashing the competition, whether it be a magazine, another newspaper, a web site or a television or radio outlet. Take the article from Peru about the revival of the Shining Path rebels that went up on our web site Tuesday afternoon and is set to run on our front page Wednesday. It's a fine piece by Simon Romero.</div><div><br /></div><div>"As of Tuesday morning, our plan was to hold off running it for at least a day and use a wholly different foreign-news article instead. But then editors on our Foreign Desk warned us that Simon, on assignment somewhere in the Andes, was "hearing footsteps," meaning that he had caught wind that a reporter for a competing newspaper was working on the same story. ... So we shifted gears, went with the Peru story immediately, and held off the other foreign story, which was not time-sensitive, instead. ... We think readers have come to expect us to be first and always aggressive on major stories of the day, whether they are breaking news events or trends like the rise of the rebels in Peru."</div><div><br /></div><div>Berke makes it explicit that it was a trend story on the revival of the Shining Path. We thought it was a fine package of journalism but the story has received regular attention in the international press over the last few years. </div><div><br /></div><div>Does anyone know if those <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">audible "footsteps" materialized</span>? </div><div><a href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Send us</span></a> the articles you may think were those footsteps - was it the LA Times?</div><div><ul><li>Mexican Drug Lords Look South To Peru, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-peru-drugs25-2009mar25,0,7696624.story">Los Angeles Times</a>, March 25</li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com">Send us an email</a> for corrections or suggestions.</div></div></div></div>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-71993089902089612872008-09-11T06:39:00.001-05:002008-09-14T12:54:25.299-05:00<div>THE TAPESTRY OF LIFE</div><div>Photographer <a href="http://www.jakelyell.com">Jake Lyell</a> recently made another visit to Peru and published photo-essays on <a href="http://jakelyell.com/blog/2008/08/26/observations-in-lima/">Lima</a> ("from the wealthy suburbs of Miraflores to the up-and-coming <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">pueblo joven</span> of Villa Maria") and <a href="http://jakelyell.com/blog/2008/08/07/high-and-dry-out-in-the-sticks-of-northern-peru/">Lambayeque</a> ("somewhere between the cities of Chiclayo and Cajamarca, lies Incawasi.")</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Earlier</span>: Lyell's photographs were note in Peruvia on <a href="http://peruvia.blogspot.com/2007/08/ifj-plea-peruvan-jornos-need-aid-editor.html">August 28, 2007</a> where he captured riveting images of Iquitos.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-26343266440671858982008-04-18T07:13:00.001-05:002008-04-18T06:53:05.972-05:00<span style="font-style: italic;">Link suggestions, corrections and questions can be sent to </span><em style="font-style: italic;"></em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>peruvia</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;"> </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>@</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;"> </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>gmail.com</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;">.<br /><br /></em><span style="font-weight: bold;">YALE HOLDING MORE INCA ITEMS</span><br /><ul><li>Peru wants Yale to return artifacts (<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2008/04/17/peru_wants_yale_to_return_artifacts/">Associated</a> <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/17/america/NA-GEN-US-Peru-Yale-Machu-Picchu.php">Press</a>)</li><li>Peru Reopens Talks On Artifacts With Yale (<a href="http://www.courant.com/news/custom/topnews/hcu-yaleperu-0417,0,6300948.story">Hartford Courant</a>, Kim Martineau) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peru's lawyer in Washington D.C., William Cook, declined comment except to say that Peru sent its proposal to Yale last week and is awaiting a response</span>."</li><li>Peru Claims Yale Took More than 40,000 Artifacts from Machu Picchu (<a href="http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/27376/peru-claims-yale-took-more-than-40000-artifacts-from-machu-picchu/">ArtInfo</a>)</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">TRAVEL & TOURISM<br /></span><ul><li>Inca Trail Sold Out (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/apr/18/peru.machupicchu.trekking?page=all">Guardian</a>, Paul Torpey) "<span style="font-style: italic;">The Inca Trail has already reached its quota of walkers until September. Paul Torpey scours the Andes for alternative treks</span>."<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">1st PERUVIAN STATE LEGISLATOR IN USA</span><br /><ul><li>Reinoso says he won't seek re-election (<a href="http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_8965814">Connecticut Post</a>, Ken Dixon) "<span style="font-style: italic;" id="ctp_sitecss"><span id="ctp_sitecss"><a href="http://www.housedems.ct.gov/Reinoso/index.asp">Rep. Felipe Reinoso</a>, D-Bridgeport, the first Peruvian-born state lawmaker in the United States, said Thursday he will not seek re-election this fall and will retire from the General Assembly after four terms. He rose to become Deputy Majority Leader. </span></span><span id="ctp_sitecss"><span id="ctp_sitecss"><span style="font-style: italic;"> Reinoso, who came to the U.S. in 1969, was instrumental in last year's passage of a bill that would let the children of illegal immigrants pay in-state tuition for state colleges and universities. The legislation, however, was vetoed by Gov. M. Jodi Rell</span>."</span></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">MACRO/MICRO ECON</span><br /><ul><li>Peru's currency to gain despite central bank (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7470328">Reuters</a>, Ricardo Serra) "<span style="font-style: italic;">The sol will probably keep on appreciating on sound economic fundamentals, even as the central bank further clamps down on speculative foreign cash entering the Andean country. Surging capital investments, swift economic growth of about 9% a year, and solid exports have caused the sol to gain about 14.5% in the last 12 months, near its strongest level since 1997</span>."</li><li>Peru's Sol Slips To 15-day Low Versus Buck (<a href="http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20080417%5cACQRTT200804171549RTTRADERUSEQUITY_1398.htm&&mypage=newsheadlines&title=Peru%27s%20Sol%20Slips%20To%2015-day%20Low%20Versus%20Buck">RTT News</a>)</li><li>Peru Milpo says revised Votorantim offer too low (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/mergersNews/idUSN1748110020080417?rpc=401&">Reuters</a>)</li><li>Economic Split Seen In Corporate Earnings (<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120847872973524907.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">Wall Street Journal</a>, Tom Lauricella, p. A1) "<span style="font-style: italic;">On Wednesday, Coca-Cola Co. Chief Executive E. Neville Isdell noted during the company's conference call that he had taken a recent trip to Chile and Peru. "There's a vibrancy in Latin America that I don't think we've seen in decades," he remarked</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">EU/LAC Lima Summit - May 16/17<br /></span><ul><li><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/world/lac/events_en.htm">Summit Homepage</a></li><li>Peru Hopes APEC Brings Investment From Thailand (<a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/Business/18Apr2008_biz43.php">Bangkok Post</a>, Parista Yuthamanop) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peru expects this year's (Apec) forum to help open the door for increased investment and tourism from Thailand, according to Carlos Velasco, the ambassador of Peru to Thailand. Trade between Peru and Thailand totalled $300 million in 2007. Under the pending trade pact, Thailand will enjoy cheaper imports of Peruvian farm products such as olives, asparagus, avocado, paprika and artichokes. Prospects for Thai exports are also expected to improve for goods such as televisions, refrigerators and electrical appliances</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">EARTHQUAKE RECOVERY - 8 MONTHS LATER</span><br /><div><a href="http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTTkjDgwhI8TIBbQTRtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBjcDR2NTN2BHBvcwM2BHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=135qa471t/EXP=1208603971/**http%3a//news.yahoo.com/news%3ftmpl=story%26u=/080418/ids_photos_wl/r1236279198.jpg"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080418/t/r1236279198.jpg" alt=" A rickshaw passes by the front of what is left of Pisco's San Clemente cathedral eight months after a 7.9 earthquake hit southern Peru killing about 500 people, in Pisco, April 17, 2008. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo(PERU) " title=" A rickshaw passes by the front of what is left of Pisco's San Clemente cathedral eight months after a 7.9 earthquake hit southern Peru killing about 500 people, in Pisco, April 17, 2008. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo(PERU) " height="85" width="130" /></a></div> <ul><li>Reuters' Mariana Bazo has several photographs of Pisco since the earthquake (<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080418/ids_photos_wl/r160055403.jpg/">1</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080418/ids_photos_wl/r1236279198.jpg/">2</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080418/ids_photos_wl/r526268613.jpg/">3)</a><br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">FILM: WOVEN SONGS OF THE AMAZON</span><br /><ul><li>Screening of “Woven Songs of the Amazon,” a documentary by Anna Stevens (<a href="http://www.valley-journal.com/home.php?content=article&article=5327">Valley Journal</a>, Colorado) watch <a href="http://revver.com/video/310087/woven-songs-of-the-amazon-trailer/">a preview</a>; watch <a href="http://www.greenspiderfilms.com/WSA_Trailer.html">another preview</a>; "<span style="font-style: italic;">This documentary explores the ancient tradition of song patterns, “Icaros,” that have been passed down from generation to generation by the Shipibo people of the Peruvian Amazon. The film follows one family in their struggle to preserve and pass down the songs and patterns to the younger generation amidst the face of great change and modernization within the community</span>." purchase <a href="http://www.greenspiderfilms.com/products.html">the movie on DVD</a> or the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Woven-Songs-Amazon-Healing-Shipibo/dp/B000H6STG4?tag=particculturf-20">soundtrack</a></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">CHURCH NEWS</span><br /><ul><li>Peruvian cardinal stops Communion in the hand (<a href="http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=57890">Catholic World News</a>, Phil Lawler) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Speaking to the Italian web site Petrus, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne of Lima, Peru, said that in order to guard against abuses, 'the best way to administer Communion is on the tongue.' Cardinal Cipriani told Petrus that he took the step to halt Communion in the hand in order to promote greater reverence for the Eucharist. In some cases, he said, the practice had led to gross abuses. More generally he cited the 'relaxed attitude of many priests' as a cause for the decline in reverence</span>."<br /></li></ul><em></em><em></em><span style="font-weight: bold;">TOLEDO/KARP IN ARIZONA</span><br /><ul><li>Former Peruvian president, first lady speaking at University of Arizona (<a href="http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/82852.php">Tuscon Citizen</a>, Arizona, Heidi Rowley) <span style="font-style: italic;">Alejandro Toledo on "Social Justice in Health: Local to Global"; and on "Can democracy afford to neglect the poor? A presidential perspective." Former first lady Eliane Karp de Toledo on "Indigenous People and their Social Inclusion in Democracy</span>."</li><li>Thorns and Flowers (<a href="http://www.azstarnet.com/opinion/234536.php">Arizona Star editorial</a>) <span style="font-style: italic;">the newspaper praises the University for hosting Toledo and Karp</span></li><li><span>Former Peruvian president pontificates on poverty (<a href="http://media.wildcat.arizona.edu/media/storage/paper997/news/2008/04/18/News/Former.Peruvian.President.Pontificates.On.Poverty-3335148.shtml">Arizona Wildcat</a>, Shain Bergan) "</span><span style="font-style: italic;">Although Toledo has given countless speeches over his years as a candidate and president, this one was possibly the most difficult, since its message was so close to his heart, Toledo said. As a young man in Peru in the 1960s, Toledo met Joel Meister, professor emeritus for the UA's public health college. Meister was working with the U.S. Peace Corps and befriended Toledo. Meister and his wife Nancy, an oncology social worker at the Arizona Cancer Center, then helped Toledo gain admission into the University of San Francisco, Meister said</span>."</li><li> Peru's Former First Family to Speak at University of Arizona (University of Arizona <a href="http://uanews.org/node/19267">press release</a>; see <a href="http://www.publichealth.arizona.edu/News/NewsReleases/SocialJusticeSymposium2008.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1">workshop program</a>)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">FOOD</span><br /><ul><li>REVIEW: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/selvagrill.com">Selva Grill</a> (<a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080417/features/804170734&tc=yahoo">Herald Tribune</a>, Florida) "<span style="font-style: italic;">This Peruvian favorite moved from a small strip mall to a much larger and elegant location in downtown Sarasota, and we're happy to say that it lost none of its flair or flavor in the process</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">ARTS AND CULTURE</span><br /><ul><li>Havana Historian Receives Ricardo Palma University Award (<a href="http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2008/0417premioeusebio.htm">Cuban News Agency</a>) <span style="font-style: italic;">"Havana historian Eusebio Leal received on Wednesday an Honoris Causa Doctorate granted by the Ricardo Palma University of Peru. According to Prensa Latina news agency, he also recalled Raul Porras Barrenechea, a former Peruvian foreign minister who in 1960 refused to isolate and condemn Cuba at the Organization of American States</span>."</li><li>REVIEW: Opera, Barber of Seville, Canadian Opera Company (<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080418.BARBER18/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Music/">Globe and Mail</a>, ) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Young Peruvian conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya made a decent job of guiding the orchestra and singers through Rossini's scintillating score, but I'm sure he had his hands full keeping Shkosa's Rosina on the rails</span>."<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">SPORTS</span><br /><ul><li>Johan Cruyff mystery over, not that of '78 Cup (<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1YourView&xml=/sport/2008/04/18/sfncru118.xml">The Telegraph</a>, UK, ) <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Once Again</span> ... "<span style="font-style: italic;">Argentina needed to beat Peru by four goals in their last game to progress to the final. General Jorge Vidal made a timely pre-match visit to the Peruvian dressing-room to talk to the players about "Latin American unity" before the host nation rattled six past a side that had previously held Holland to a goalless draw. Rumours were rife that the match had been fixed (the fact that the Peru goalkeeper Ramon Quiroga was born in Argentina did not help), with crowds pelting the Peru players with stones on their return to Lima airport. It has since been claimed that in the weeks following the Peru game, an impromptu cargo of 35,000 tonnes of wheat left Argentina for Lima and that the military regime issued an interest-free loan of $50 million to the Peruvian government, led by another dictator Francisco Morales Bermudez</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">HUMAN CRUELTY</span><br /><ul><li>What the Dead Have To Say (<a href="http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11057143">Economist</a>) "Armed with a $1.5m grant from the United States Congress, the Argentine <span class="scaps">NGO </span>[<a href="http://www.eaaf.org/">Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team</a>] has just launched an initiative, along with counterparts in Peru and Guatemala, to speed up the identification of human remains, both by encouraging relatives to offer blood samples and by taking advantage of the latest American technology."</li><li>Modern Slavery (<a href="http://www.latinamericapress.org/article.asp?lanCode=1&artCode=5583">Latin America Press</a>, Lily Céspedes) "<span style="font-style: italic;">It’s a global situation that affects almost all countries. It has become an international problem and in order to fight it the work has to be coordinated between the authorities and governments of the world,” warned Rosa Dominga Trapasso, US missionary who came to Peru over 50 years ago and who defends female victims of trafficking in the nongovernmental organization <a href="http://movimientoelpozo.org/">Movimiento El Pozo</a>, in Lima</span>."<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">QUOTABLE?</span><br /><ul><li>OPINION: Behind the Food Price Riots (<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120848098505325049.html">Wall Street Journal</a>, Vincent Reinhart) "<span style="font-style: italic;">But there is an important difference between our troubles today and those of the 1970s. In that decade, aggregate supply sagged as oil producers scaled back production and anchovies disappeared off the coast of Peru</span>."</li><li>OPINION: Memories of Nixon/Ford (<a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/memories-of-the-nixon-ford-administration/">New York Times</a>, Paul Krugman) Yesterday - "<span style="font-style: italic;">Some of the causes look similar: droughts in the Southern Hemisphere (the Peruvian anchovies disappeared, too) and a period of rapid world growth</span>."</li></ul>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-29718290918015608142008-04-17T07:16:00.000-05:002008-04-18T06:43:35.722-05:00<span style="font-style: italic;">Link suggestions, corrections and questions can be sent to </span><em style="font-style: italic;"></em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>peruvia</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;"> </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>@</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;"> </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>gmail.com</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;">.<br /><br /></em><span style="font-weight: bold;">FUJI FILES</span><br /><ul><li><span class="articleheadline" style="direction: ltr;">Peru's High Court Upholds 6-Year Prison Sentence of Former President Fujimori </span>(<a href="http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-04-16-voa51.cfm">Voice of America</a>)</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">YALE HOLDING MORE INCA ITEMS</span> <ul><li>Peru calls for return of artifacts (<a href="http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24510">Yale Daily News</a>, Paul Needham) "<span style="font-style: italic;">In a distinct change in position, Peruvian officials announced Wednesday that they are now seeking the prompt return of all the Inca artifacts currently housed at Yale. While Peruvian authorities continue to cite an interest in a research</span><span style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> collaboration with Yale, they said they would like that interaction to begin after the artifacts return to Peru</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">EU/LAC Lima Summit - May 16/17<br /></span><ul><li><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/world/lac/events_en.htm">Summit Homepage</a></li><li>Embassy Row (<a href="http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080417/FOREIGN02/194684563/1003/FOREIGN">Washington Times</a>, James Morrison) "<span style="font-style: italic;">A top European leader is trying to persuade Latin American governments to move beyond the "darker side" of their relations with the European Union and embrace a "brighter one" that will concentrate on fighting poverty and threats to the global climate."The two topics are closely linked and unavoidably connected, and, therefore, we believe it is crucial to make real progress on poverty reduction and the consequences of climate change,"</span><b style="font-style: italic;"> </b><span style="font-style: italic;">Dimitrij Rupel, president of the EU's General Affairs and External Relations Council, told the Organization of American States on a Washington visit this week. Mr. Rupel, also foreign minister of Slovenia, said his country and Peru have accepted the "demanding and responsible task" of co-chairing the next meeting of the EU-Latin American and Caribbean Summit, scheduled next month in the Peruvian capital Lima</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">PERUVIANS IN IRAQ</span><br /><ul><li>Dispatches From a Legal Reporter in Iraq (<a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1208342625195">The American Lawyer</a>, Ben Hallman) "<span style="font-style: italic;">At the other end of the spectrum, a Peruvian guard, also employed by KBR, told me he makes about $1,200 a month. The guard told me he is leaving soon, after two years in Baghdad. "Baghdad, too much muerte," he told me, pantomiming a rocket flying into the Green Zone</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">MACRO/MICRO ECON</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Macro</span><br /><ul><li>Peru's March Tax, Customs Collections Rise 18.4% Vs Year Ago (<a href="http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20080416%5CACQDJON200804161407DOWJONESDJONLINE000907.htm&selected=9999&selecteddisplaysymbol=9999&StoryTargetFrame=_top&mkt=WORLD&chk=unchecked&lang=&link=&headlinereturnpage=http://www.international.na">Dow</a> <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20080416-712685.html">Jones</a>, Leslie Josephs) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peru's tax and customs revenue totaled 4.03 billion soles ( $1.5 billion) in March, an 18.4% real growth from the year before, tax agency Sunat said Wednesday</span>."</li><li>Peru Central Bank Intervenes To Buy $25 Million (<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20080416-713216.html">Dow Jones</a>)<br /></li><li>Peru confirms over 1 billion barrels of oil reserve (<a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/17/content_7993359.htm">Xinhua</a>) "<span id="Zoom" style="font-style: italic;">Some 809 million barrels of oil can be added while including three other maritime oil fields - Santa Rosa, Santa Maria and Pimentel - in Lambayaque. The </span><span id="Zoom"><span style="font-style: italic;">Petro-Tech Peruana oil enterprise, with Argentine capital, began the field studies five years ago, discovering oil in the region by means of two- and three-dimensional seismic tests</span>."<br /></span></li><li>Petro Tech find boosts Peru hopes (<a href="http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/article152545.ece">wire services</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peruvian energy company Petro Tech has found a new oilfield with estimated reserves of 1.13 billion barrels, a sizable discovery for Peru, which is trying to become energy self-sufficient, provincial governor Yehude Simon said. The reserve was found in Lot Z-6 of northern Peru, near Piura and Lambayeque. Peru, a net oil importer that hopes to become a net exporter in 2010, produced 41.6 million barrels of crude oil last year</span>."</li><li>Textile Exporters Plan US$ 50 Million Investment (<a href="http://www.bharattextile.com/newsitems/1982649">Bharat Textile</a>)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-style: italic;">Micro</span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.centurymining.com/">Century Mining</a> Announces NI 43-101 Reserves And Technical Report For The San Juan Gold Mine In Peru (<a href="http://www.centurymining.com/news/pdf/4162008-1.pdf">press</a> <a href="http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2008/16/c6214.html">release</a>)</li><li>BTV-Business Television Features Antares Minerals, ECU Silver and Dianor Resources (<a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/080417/140287.html">press release</a>)<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.sinchaometals.com/">Sinchao Metals</a> Confirms Southwest Extension of Mineralization in Breccia Zone (<a href="http://www.sinchaometals.com/pdf_files/NR05%20SDH-31%20SMZ%2004-16-08.pdf">press</a> <a href="http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=844436">release</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Sinchao Metals Corp. owns 100% interest in the Sinchao Property, which is located in Cajamarca Province, Northern Peru, and 30 kilometres from Yanacocha, the largest gold mine in South America</span>."</li><li><a href="http://dynacorgold.com/">Dynacor Gold Mines</a> increases its gold production capacity by 69% (<a href="http://dynacorgold.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=156&Itemid=48">press</a> <a href="http://money.canoe.ca/News/Sectors/Mining/2008/04/16/5300981-cp.html">release</a>)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">AMAZONIA</span><br /><ul><li>'Borders That Unite - April 16-18': Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru seek to protect Amazonia (<a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/17/content_7993684.htm">Xinhua</a>) <span id="Zoom">"<span style="font-style: italic;">Diplomats and indigenous leaders from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru met Wednesday in Bogota ina bid to protect Amazonia, the "world's lung," by limiting the exploitation of natural resources. </span></span><span id="Zoom" style="font-style: italic;">"This is an Amazonian meeting of the four countries sharing that borderless region, our government works and implements negotiations to not exploit oil nor damage that region, the world's lung," said Ecuadorian consul Carlos Solorzano. </span><span id="Zoom" style="font-style: italic;">The "Borders that unite" meeting is being held at the <a href="http://www.lablaa.org/">Luis Angel Arango</a> library in downtown Bogota, Colombia's capital, and is also being attended by representatives of nine indigenous communities that live along the Amazonian border. </span><span id="Zoom" style="font-style: italic;">The ethnic groups of the indigenous communities include Cofan, Murui, Huitoto, Coreguaje, Muinane, Cocama, Tikuna, Bora and Inga."</span><span id="Zoom" style="font-style: italic;"> see also <a href="http://www.areacucuta.com/index.php?module=news&file=news&news=7745">Areacucuta</a> and <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=BK6&q=%22Fronteras+que+unen%22+2008&btnG=Search">other articles</a> in Spanish</span></li><li><span id="Zoom">Uncontacted tribes go 'round the world' (Survival International <a href="http://www.survival-international.org/news/3234">press release</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">More than 150 articles and interviews about Peru’s uncontacted tribes have been published or broadcast in more than 20 countrie</span>s."<br /></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">DISTRIBUTING FOOD</span><br /><ul><li>Soldiers Deliver Food As Part of Government Aid Program (Reuters photographs, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080416/ids_photos_wl/r666235693.jpg/">1</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080416/ids_photos_wl/r1081717795.jpg/">2</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080416/ids_photos_wl/r2238428653.jpg/">3</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080416/ids_photos_wl/r1946677139.jpg/">4</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080416/ids_photos_wl/r202972425.jpg/">5</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">During the next 6 months, Peru's government hopes to hand out some 100,000 bags of food to families living in Lima's poorest neighborhoods. The aid comes as the Andean country struggles to control skyrocketing consumer prices, the Women and Social Development Ministry said</span>."</li><li>Farming Families Benefit From Peruvian Potato Project (<a href="http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1343777/farming_families_benefit_from_peruvian_potato_project/index.html">Red Orbit</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">T'ikapapa is an initiative of the International Potato Center's Papa Andina Partnership Program and the Innovation and Competitiveness of Peru's Potato Sector project. The project brings together farmers' organisations from six different departments (Ayacucho, Apurimac, Cajamarca, Huanuco, Huancavelica and Junin) in the highlands of Peru, Capac-Peru (a potato market chain association), A&L Biodiversidad Alto Andina (a private potato processing company), Wong (Peru's largest supermarket chain), and CIP's INCOPA project. This project is supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation</span>."<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">LOW INTERNET RATINGS</span><br /><ul><li>OPINION: Latin America scores badly in Internet ranking (<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/andres_oppenheimer/story/498917.html">Miami Herald</a>, Andres Oppenheimer) "<span style="font-style: italic;">A new world ranking released by the World Economic Forum shows that several Latin American countries are gradually losing ground in Internet 'network readiness.' Meantime, Middle Eastern, Asian and Eastern European nations are modernizing much more rapidly, it says. Authors of the study, entitled </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Global%20Information%20Technology%20Report/index.htm"><em>Global Information Technology Report</em></a><span style="font-style: italic;">, say that Internet readiness is the key to long-term growth. Just like countries in the past needed roads and bridges to ship their exports abroad, today they also need good Internet infrastructure to be more competitive in the global economy, they say. Peru fell from the 78th to 84th</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">JOSEFINA CONDORI HONORED </span><br /><ul><li>Josefina Condori - World’s Children’s prize for the Rights of the Child, Honorary Award (<a href="http://www.childrensworld.org/page.html?pid=1689">Children's World</a>)</li><li>Winners of World's Children's Prize (<a href="http://www.pr-inside.com/cambodian-activist-who-rescues-sex-slaves-r540817.htm">Associated Press</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Sweden's Queen Silvia will host an awards ceremony on Friday at Gripsholm's castle outside Stockholm</span>."</li><li>Swedish Prize Announced (<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article3761099.ece">The Times</a>, UK)<br /></li><li>Children's Rights Prize Announced (<a href="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/199253,cambodian-campaigner-wins-childrens-rights-prize.html">Deutsche Press Agentur</a>)<br /></li><li>Peruvian wins Honorary World’s Children’s prize for the Rights of the Child (<a href="http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/International/nyhetssidor/artikel.asp?ProgramID=2054&Nyheter=&artikel=2016339">Radio Sweden</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peru’s Josefina Condori and Agnes Stevens of the U.S. share an honourary award. The committee cited Condori’s work to protect house maids who work under 'slave-like conditions' in Peru</span>."<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">PEOPLE</span><br /><ul><li>Jenna Bush On Peru (<a href="http://www.kwes.com/global/story.asp?s=8179456">KWES-9</a> Texas) "<span style="font-style: italic;">In Peru, we visited projects where the proceeds of the book are funding, so that was really amazing and UNICEF was really supportive in that way that they're showing me where the money is actually going and it's going to help so many things," Jenna said</span>."</li><li>From Peru with love - and labor (<a href="http://www.communitytimes.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=67&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=6010&wpage=&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1049&hn=communitytimes&he=.com">Community Times</a>, Maryland, Jane Collins) "<span style="font-style: italic;">I am writing this story from Lima, Peru, and grouting the tile around an orphanage dining room that holds 560 kids. My husband and I flew here for two weeks with </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.blogger.com/www.globalvolunteers.org">Global Volunteers</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> and signed up to help the labor crew</span>."</li><li>Rotary members share homes, life, work (<a href="http://www.lakeelmoleader.com/articles/index.cfm?id=7118&section=news">Lake Elmo Leader</a>, Minnesota, Barbara Boelk) <span style="font-style: italic;">Dr. Jessica Diaz from Huaraz is one of five Peruvian participants in a month-long Rotary International group exchange program</span>.</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">FOOD</span><br /><ul><li>Signposts of a New Geography (<a href="http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/32388">Scripps Howard News Service</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peruvian restaurants are all the rage in Chile</span>."</li><li>There's History in Peruvian Olives (<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/1006/story/497533.html">Miami Herald</a>, Maricel Presilla) re: aceituna de botija "<span style="font-style: italic;">According to popular lore, the first olive trees arrived in Lima from Spain in 1519 with the wealthy colonist Don Antonio de Ribera. On a trip to Seville, he had secured about 100 olive saplings to plant on his Peruvian farm (</span><em style="font-style: italic;">huerta</em><span style="font-style: italic;">). Only three survived the journey, and Don Antonio had them planted with great care and nervous expectations. Though he had ordered his slaves to protect them round the clock, one of the saplings was stolen. The Peruvian historian Ricardo Palma tells us the culprit was a man from Chile who planted the sapling on his farm on the shore of the Mapocho River</span>."</li><li>Peruvian-Style Black Olive, Potato and Fresh Cheese Salad (<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/1017/story/497531.html">Miami Herald</a>)</li><li>REVIEW: Machu Picchu (<a href="http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080417/DCP05/804170301/1058/DCP">Daily Times</a>, Delaware) "<span class="bodytext"><span style="font-style: italic;">Owner Consuelo Rios said the new restaurant in Midway provides a different spin on ethnic flavors and is the only Peruvian restaurant in a 50-mile radius</span>."</span></li><li><span class="bodytext">REVIEW: Rincon Limeño (<a href="http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid59974.aspx">The Phoenix</a>, Boston) "</span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="bodyText"><span style="font-style: italic;">Showcases the cuisine of Peru in all its glorious biodiversity (ingredients from the mountains, oceans, rainforests, and river basins) and ethnic richness (influences from indigenous South America, Western Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East)</span>."</span></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">QUOTABLE</span><br /><ul><li>Nepal goes Maoist: How worried should we be? (<a href="http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11041965">The Economist</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">So insurgent communists in poor, largely rural countries such as India, Nepal and Peru are naturally inclined to style themselves Maoists. As a revolutionary inspirer, at least, Mao was a success</span>."</li><li>Think Globally, Eat Locally (<a href="http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/think_globally_eat_locally/">Jackson Free Press</a>, Mississippi) “<span style="font-style: italic;">In Peru, the original home of potatoes, Andean farmers once grew some four thousand potato varieties, each with its own name, flavor and use, ranging in size from tiny to gigantic and covering the color spectrum from indigo-purple to red, orange, yellow, and white,” Barbara Kingsolver writes. Yesterday at Kroger, I’m pretty sure I only saw about three different kinds. This kind of uniformity leaves a farmer’s whole crop vulnerable to being wiped out by insects or disease</span>."</li><li>REVIEW of Automobile: (<a href="http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=989273">Brantford Expositor</a>, Ontario) "<span style="font-style: italic;">This is a fun little car to toss around and you will hardly find yourself in trouble. It is so predictable that aggressively tackling a wet, sloppy, sloshy drive brought up visions of an Audi A4 tackling a Peruvian mountain without tires</span>."</li></ul>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-86287481476732821622008-04-16T05:58:00.000-05:002008-04-16T07:48:31.855-05:00<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Link suggestions, corrections and questions can be sent to </span><em style="font-style: italic;"></em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>peruvia</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;"> </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>@</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;"> </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>gmail.com</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;">.</em><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">FUJI FILES</span><br /><a href="http://www.cctv.com/english/20080416/103634.shtml" id="u-AFrqEzeVrN-YynN7cCk70OM6wkTl4ly04g:r-8i_0"><img src="http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=klPVMD4joAcJ&imgurl=www.cctv.com/english/20080416/images/1208322494765_1208322494765_r.jpg" alt="" border="1" height="62" width="80" /></a><br /><ul><li>Peru high court upholds 6-year prison for Fujimori (<a href="http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=11577&L=en">Agence France</a> <a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jZ1LzEd0TW70_QjwbZJOlME2XBPg">Press</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Tuesday's high court ruling was welcomed by prosectors in the death-squad killings case, because it "demolishes" Fujimori's lawyers' argument that, while in power, he had no authority over active-duty military officers</span>."</li><li>Peru Supreme Court Upholds Former President's Prison Sentence (<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aghcoZq4Oocs&refer=japan">Bloomberg</a>, Alex Emery) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Fujimori, 69, also was fined 400,000 soles ($149,000) after he admitted to ordering an aide to search the residence, the court said in an e-mailed statement</span>."</li><li>Peruvian Supreme Court rules 6-year prison for Fujimori (<a href="http://www.cctv.com/english/20080416/103634.shtml">Xinhua</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">The Peruvian Supreme Court Tuesday made its final ruling on ex-Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's role in instigating the illegal raid on the house of Trinidad Becerra, the wife of a former presidential aide. The former president was convicted of organizing and leading the illegal raid on the house of Becerra, the wife of Vladimiro Montesinos, a presidential aide, in 2000. Evidence was presented showing Fujimori ordering a military officer to pose as a prosecutor to gain access to the house in November 2000. He faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted of the 10 charges of corruption and two of human rights abuses</span>."</li><li>The Trial of Alberto Fujimori (<a href="http://www.andeancurrents.com/2008/04/trial-of-alberto-fujimori.html">Andean Currents</a>)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">SHINING PATH MASSACRE AT 25</span><br /><ul><li>Peruvians mark 25th anniversary of Shining Path massacre (<a href="http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=4d7fbcc4-efe5-45ec-9590-106615921697">Canwest News Service</a>, Christine Skladany, reporting from Lucanamarca) "<span style="font-style: italic;">The ceremony marked the 25th anniversary of the massacre in Lucanamarca, where 69 people died at the hands of the Shining Path terrorist group. The guerrillas hacked their victims to death using axes, machetes and knives. Women, men and children as young as 18 months old were murdered in their homes, farms, along the main road, in the town square - even in a church, where some had sought refuge</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">WOMEN'S CONFERENCE</span><br /><ul><li>First <a href="http://www.indigenouswomensforum.org/">International Forum of Indigenous Women</a> started in Lima (<a href="http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=iaI1tX8DX54=">Andina News Agency</a>) "<span id="lblContenido" class="edpNoticiaContenido"><span style="font-style: italic;">This forum will tackle issues such as: Globalization and Indigenous Women, Indigenous Women and Human Rights, Indigenous Women and Building Alliances and Indigenous Movement: Advances and Challenges</span>."</span></li><li><span id="lblContenido" class="edpNoticiaContenido">From 2000: <a href="http://www.iwgia.org/graphics/Synkron-Library/Documents/publications/Downloadpublications/IndigenousAffairs/300iaWomen.pdf">Indigenous Women Create New International Organization</a></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">YALE HOLDING MORE INCA ITEMS<br /></span><ul><li>Peru Questions Yale on Inventory of Artifacts (<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89661671&ft=1&f=1003">National Public Radio</a>, Diane Orson)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">DE SOTO 'DIM'?</span><br /><ul><li>REVIEW: Divisions of Cyprus (<a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n08/ande01_.html">London Review of Books</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">A UN special representative, in the shape of a dim Peruvian functionary, was chosen to front the operation." That functionary was </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.un.int/cyprus/alvaro.htm">Alvaro de Soto</a><span style="font-style: italic;">. A different interpretation of de Soto's diplomacy is featured in chapter 2 of </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=kSZ5MsHDPGMC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=cyprus+%22alvaro+de+soto%22+%22united+nations%22&source=web&ots=SaTl0XTfEP&sig=lVfVo9LTr0JkR03jSmaGkeyQC_w&hl=en#PPA29,M1">Kings of Peace, Pawns of War: The Untold Story of Peace-Making</a> by Harriet Martin.</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">TRAVEL & TOURISM</span><br /><ul><li>In Peru, protests meet push for more tourism (<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2008-04-16-peru-tourism_N.htm">USAToday</a> via Associated Press, Leslie Joseph and several AP photos) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Tourist entries at Lima's Jorge Chavez International Airport increased from 998,000 in 2002 to more than 1.8 million last year, according to Peru's Foreign Trade and Tourism Ministry, thanks in part to an award-winning publicity campaign launched two years ago. Some 160,000 of them spent at least $1,000 a day, said Tibisay Monsalve, general manager of the Hotel Association of Peru</span>."<br /></li><li>Protests meet government push for more luxury tourism in Peru (<a href="http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gh_dIoOPhLSAiUUAsrzuzqNrKqdA">Canadian Press</a>, same article as above)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">MACRO/MICRO<br /> </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Macro</span><br /><ul><li><span class="news_story_title">Peru February GDP Grew 11.9%, Fastest Pace Since 1997 </span>(<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aujudJ8LXUdo">Bloomberg</a>, Alex Emery) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peru's economy expanded in February at the fastest pace since 1997, on surging construction, copper and natural gas output</span>."</li><li>Peru's economy surges 11.9 pct in February (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/economicNews/idUSN1547178220080415?sp=true">Reuters</a>, Maria Luisa Palomino) In new <a href="http://www.inei.gob.pe/">INEI</a> numbers, "<span style="font-style: italic;">Construction surged 22.49% in February from the same month in 2007, while mining, the traditional engine of the Andean country, grew 14.65% in February from the same month a year ago</span>."</li><li>Peru's High Economic Growth May Ease On Monetary Tightening (<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20080415-712405.html">Dow Jones</a>, Leslie Joseph and Robert Kozak) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peru's galloping economic growth continued into February, with gross domestic product expanding 11.92% over the same month a year earlier. But economists are wondering how long the crisp pace of growth can last, as the Central Reserve Bank of Peru tightens monetary polic</span>y."</li><li>Peru Stock Indexes End Higher; Sol Strengthens (<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20080415-715763.html">Dow Jones</a>)</li><li>Portfolio Manager Favors International Asset Allocation (<a href="http://seekingalpha.com/article/72342-portfolio-manager-favors-international-asset-allocation">Seeking Alpha</a>, Murray Coleman) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Last year, Peru was one of the best countries in the world to invest in, but there weren't any ETFs for it. So EEM provides broad exposure to many markets you normally can't get into," Ted Feight said</span>."</li><li>Peru May Reach Self-Sufficiency in Sugar by 2009, USDA Reports (<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=ayuV__ePVdFM&refer=news">Bloomberg</a>, Marianne Stigset) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peru will produce 995,000 metric tons of cane sugar this year, up from 910,000 tons, on favorable weather and increased acreage, the department's Foreign Agricultural Service said in an e-mailed report yesterday. Imports will fall 30% to 170,000 ton</span>s."</li><li>USDA Attache: Peru Sugar Industry Growing (<a href="http://www.individual.com/story.php?story=80866361">Dow Jones</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">In 2006, Gloria, Peru's largest dairy processor, acquired Casa Grande, Peru's largest sugar producer. Gloria also owns Cartavio, the second largest sugar company</span>."<br /></li><li>Paita, Pisco port concessions to be awarded end-October (<a href="http://www.bnamericas.com/story.jsp?idioma=I&sector=5&noticia=430804">BNAmericas</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Firms interested in taking part in the process will have until September 5 to submit documentation. Works will include the construction of a 300m dock in Paita port, in department Piura, and a 350m dock at General San Martín - also known as Pisco - in department Ica. Both contemplate a minimum of 12ha in container areas and the purchase of two dock gantry cranes and two patio gantry cranes, along with dredging works</span>."</li><li>OPINION: Memories of Nixon/Ford (<a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/memories-of-the-nixon-ford-administration/">New York Times</a>, Paul Krugman) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Some of the causes look similar: droughts in the Southern Hemisphere (the Peruvian anchovies disappeared, too) and a period of rapid world growth</span>."</li></ul> <span style="font-style: italic;">Micro</span><br /><ul><li>SABMiller sales hit top end of projections (<a href="http://www.just-drinks.com/article.aspx?id=93556">Just Drinks</a>) "<span id="lblArticleBodyText"><span style="font-style: italic;">In Peru, volumes ended up 8% in a market that 'remains highly competitive'.</span>"</span></li><li><span id="lblArticleBodyText">POC launches tender offer for 23.54% of Luz del Sur (<a href="http://www.bnamericas.com/story.jsp?idioma=I&sector=10&noticia=430856">BNAmericas</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peruvian Opportunity Company (POC) has launched a tender offer to acquire a 23.54% stake in Peru's largest distributor Luz de Sur for US$202mn</span>."</span></li><li><span id="lblArticleBodyText">Chile retailer D&S eyes expansion into Peru market (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN1544976120080415">Reuters</a>, Antonio de la Jara) </span>"<span style="font-style: italic;">Peru is a tremendous market," Silvio Rostagna, general manager of D&S Retail Chile</span>." </li><li><span id="lblArticleBodyText">ORBCOMM Announces Further Latin American Expansion (ORBCOMM <a href="http://www.orbcomm.com/media/releases/Release04-15-08.htm">press release</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">In Peru, ORBCOMM’s low-earth orbit satellite services are now available to the full range of applications, where previously the services were only authorized in connection with maritime applications</span>."</span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">EU/LAC Lima Summit - May 16/17<br /></span><ul><li><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/world/lac/events_en.htm">Summit Homepage</a></li><li>Latin America-Caribbean and European Union summit set for May (<a href="http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-7198--38-38--.html">Carribbean Net News</a>)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">FOOD</span><br /><ul><li>REVIEW: Shachis Restaurant - Crusty on the Outside (<a href="http://events.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/dining/reviews/16under.html?ref=dining">New York Times</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">The roast chicken, served with vegetable fried rice and aioli, would please a picky Peruvian</span>."</li><li>REVIEW: Mi Peru (<a href="http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2008/04/cheap_eats_mi_peru.php">Miami New Times</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Mi Peru in Aventura is one hell of a surprise</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">SPORTS</span><br /><ul><li>This Week In Soccer: Five things happening around the world. (<a href="http://www.latimes.com/sports/soccer/la-sp-cornerkicks16apr16,1,3154101.story">Los Angeles Times</a>, Grahame L. Jones) "<span style="font-style: italic;">In Peru there is a goalkeeper being hailed for his own ability to put the ball in the back of the net. Jhonny Vegas plays for a club called Sport Ancash in the Peruvian league, and on Sunday he bent a free kick around the defensive wall and into the net to record his second goal of the season in a 1-1 tie with Atletico Minero. Peruvian statisticians said it was the 32nd goal of Vegas' career and made him the fifth-highest scoring goalkeeper in the record books</span>.</li><li>South America round-up: Keeper Vegas on target on again (<a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/UK_WORLDFOOTBALL/idUKB12167120080414?sp=true">Reuters</a>, Brian Homewood) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Vegas kept up the tradition of goalscoring Latin American keepers by notching his second goal of the season. The Ancash goalkeeper curled a free-kick over the wall to score in the 80th minute and give Ancash a 1-1 draw at Atletico</span>."</li><li>PSV Go Shopping in Belgium (<a href="http://goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=660350">Goal</a>) "With Jeff Farfán poised to leave Eindhoven at the end of the season, PSV are in the market to buy his successor."<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">UNIVERSITY NEWS</span><br /><ul><li>Proof of Compassion: Peru (<a href="http://media.www.easterneronline.com/media/storage/paper916/news/2008/04/16/News/Proof.Of.Compassion.Peru-3328287.shtml">The Easterner</a>, Eastern Washington University) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Dr. John Matthews, assistant professor of social work, decided to take a group of 17 students with him to Peru over spring break. The trip to Lima, Peru, was a social work elective course that extended from March 22-29. Their goal was to be of service to the children who lived at Puericultorio Perez Aranibar (PPA), the largest children's home in South America. This center serves and houses over 600 children from infancy to young adulthood</span>."<br /></li><li>Olivos to leave Simon's Rock, start business in Peru (<a href="http://media.www.llamaledger.com/media/storage/paper1178/news/2008/04/16/News/Olivos.To.Leave.Simons.Rock.Start.Business.In.Peru-3326814.shtml">Llama Ledger</a>, Bard College) <span style="font-style: italic;">Juan Carlos and Anne Olivio will create Peru 109, a volunteer agency, "to guide groups of students and professionals to develop sustainable projects in Peru. "Since we've been together, it's been our goal to find a way to get to live between the United States and Peru," Anne Olivo says of the business</span>."</li><li>Latino fraternity establishes Univ. chapter (<a href="http://media.www.redandblack.com/media/storage/paper871/news/2008/04/16/News/Latino.Fraternity.Establishes.Univ.Chapter-3327141.shtml">Red and Black</a>, University of Georgia, Diana Perez) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Juan Lazo, a sophomore from Peru, was one of the four founding brothers of the Gamma Epsilon chapter of Lambda Theta Phi Fraternidad Latina, Inc. Lazo said he wanted to be part of a brotherhood focused on community service in which he could display his Latino heritage</span>."</li><li>Turkey Run teachers head to Amazon (<a href="http://www.journalreview.com/articles/2008/04/15/life/2amazon.txt">Journal Review</a>, Indiana) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Turkey Run Elementary School fourth-grade teachers Sally Simpson and Sue Harness will head to Peru this summer to study the Amazon Rainforest. The teachers received a Teacher Creativity Fellowship grant from the Lilly Foundation, which will provide $8,000 each. During their visit, the teachers will fish, hike, go on animal treks and dolphin sightings, spend a day in the life of a Peruvian student and take a five-day riverboat cruise down the Amazon River</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">OTHER STORIES</span><br /><ul><li>OPINION In other words … do your own work (<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/360/story/496756.html">Miami Herald</a> (McClatchy), <a href="http://loriborgman.com/author.html">Lori Borgman</a>) an article on plagiarism: "Seriously, how many ways are there to say, "Lima is the capital of Peru"? And if the World Book said it first and you repeated it, were you plagiarizing the encyclopedia?So then the scholar's task is to say the same boring thing in a creative manner to make the words your own: "In Peru, many citizens regard Lima as the capital." "Lima! The capital of Peru."</li><li>Mom's back from Peru and Puppy's tuckered out (<a href="http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080416/COUNTY09010506/804160337/1097/COLUMNIST">The Tennessean</a>, Vicki Stout) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Mom says she had an excellent adventure in Peru. She hiked, rode trains, took boats — you name it, she seems to have done it. She met lots of dogs, some alpacas, llamas, a cat or two and even a baby lamb. It's just a good thing she couldn't bring any of them home</span>."</li></ul>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-22849233717467725292008-04-15T06:52:00.002-05:002008-04-15T05:56:16.968-05:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS</span>:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=213192">Dow Jones</a> reports that China may soon become Peru's largest trading partner<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080414.w4real14/BNStory/Entertainment/Television/"></a><span id="mn_Global"><span id="mn_Article"></span></span><a href="http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/destinations/latin_america/article3722114.ece">The Times</a> (UK) reviews <span id="mn_Global"><span id="mn_Article"><a href="http://www.aquaexpeditions.com/">Aqua Expeditions'</a></span></span><span id="mn_Global"><span id="mn_Article"> </span></span>luxury accommodations on the Amazon</li><li>The <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120821983804914599.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">Wall Street Journal</a> reviews <a href="http://www.pacifikaonline.com/">Pacifika's</a> 'Asunción'<br /></li></ul><span style="font-style: italic;">Link suggestions, corrections and questions can be sent to </span><em style="font-style: italic;"></em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>peruvia</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;"> </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>@</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;"> </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>gmail.com</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;">.<br /></em><em></em><em style="font-style: italic;"><br /></em><span style="font-weight: bold;">YALE HOLDING MORE INCA ITEMS: "COUNTING IS COMPLICATED"</span><br /><ul><li>Yale says counting method explains Peruvian artifact discrepancy (<a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--peru-yalemachupic0414apr14,0,7526398.story">Associated Press</a>) <span style="font-style: italic;">Yale University officials said Monday that the method of counting is responsible for a discrepancy over the number of artifacts it is holding from the famed Inca citadel of Machu Picchu.<br /></span></li><li>Yale's Machu Picchu haul 10 times as big as thought (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/15/1">Associated Press</a>)<br /></li><li>Yale University vs The Government of Peru (<a href="http://www.enews20.com/news_Yale_University_Vs_The_Government_of_Peru_07261.html">eNews</a>, Alexandre Carst)</li><li>Peru Objects to Inca Hoarding By Yale U. (<a href="http://www.ecanadanow.com/news/science/peru-objects-to-inca-hoarding-by-yale-u.-20080414.html">eCanada</a>)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">TODAY IN HISTORY</span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-style: italic;">1997</span> - Peruvian troops storm the Japanese ambassador's mansion in Lima, Peru, and rescue 72 hostages held for four months, but one dies on the way to the hospital. All 14 Tupac Amaru rebels and two soldiers die in the shootout. (<a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/15/america/NA-GEN-Today-In-History.php">Associated Press</a>)</li><li><span style="font-style: italic;">1988</span> - State of emergency is extended two additional months in Lima, Peru, to fight rising violence by leftist guerrillas (<a href="http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_2305406,00.html">Associated Press</a>)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">EU/LAC Lima Summit - May 16<br /></span><ul><li><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/world/lac/events_en.htm">Summit Homepage</a></li><li>Latin America-Caribbean and European Union Summit in Peru in May (OAS <a href="http://www.oas.org/OASpage/press_releases/press_release.asp?sCodigo=E-128/08">press release</a>)</li><li>Peru President Commends Chavez' Visit (<a href="http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B43CC94D1-9FFE-4766-8C09-1680315BE0BC%7D%29&language=EN">Prensa Latina</a>, Cuba) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peruvian President Alan Garcia termed very positive Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez presence at the 5th Latin American, Caribbean, European Union Summit in Peru in May</span>."</li><li>Peru's García: Chávez will be welcomed in Lima (<a href="http://english.eluniversal.com/2008/04/14/en_pol_art_perus-garcia:-chave_14A1514803.shtml">El Universal</a>, Venezuela) "<span id="tamano" class="conteNoti1"><span style="font-style: italic;">When he arrives in Lima to attend the Summit of Latin American, Caribbean, and European Union heads of state next May 16-17, but conceded they have political and ideological differences</span>."</span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">MACRO/MICRO ECON<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Macro</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><ul><li>With US Economy Slumping, Peru Looks To China As A Market (<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=213192">Dow Jones</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peru worked tirelessly for more than three years to secure a free trade agreement with the United States. But during that time, as the U.S. economy's downturn translated into a slump in Peruvian exports to the U.S., another contender has been clawing its way to the top of Peru's trade partner list: China. Last year, China became Peru's second-largest trade partner after the U.S. Bilateral trade between Peru and China totaled some $5.5 billion in 2007 - $3.04 billion of that in exports to China - a 43% export increase over the year before, according to the Foreign Trade and Tourism Ministry. If trade with China "continues at this pace, and the United States' (trade) rate keeps dropping, in four or five years, China will become Peru's top trade partner," Luis Silva, president of the national exporters association, told Dow Jones Newswires</span>."<br /></li><li>India's trade with Latin America is growing (<a href="http://www.latinbusinesschronicle.com/app/article.aspx?id=2298">Latin Business Chronicle</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Trade with countries like Brazil and Chile is growing above 30 percent and in the case of Peru it almost doubled last year</span>."<br /></li><li>Peru Has Lowest Inflation (<a href="http://www.latinbusinesschronicle.com/app/article.aspx?id=2281">Latin Business Chronicle</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">In 2009 it will be Peru that can boast the lowest inflation - 2.5%. That follows inflation of 4.2 percent in 2008 and 1.8 percent in 2007 (the lowest last year)</span>."</li><li>Greenback Sets 12-day High Against Peru's Nuevo Sol (<a href="http://www.rttnews.com/FOREX/Currency_mkt.asp?date=04/14/2008&item=86">RTT News</a>)<br /></li></ul> <span style="font-style: italic;">Micro</span><br /><ul><li>Peruvian unions announce strike for May (<a href="http://steelguru.com/news/index/2008/04/15/NDIxMjc%3D/Peruvian_unions_announce_strike_for_May_12.html">BNAmericas</a>)<br /></li><li>Doe Run Peru says strike has cut output 25% (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSN1437860120080414">Reuters</a>, Maria Luisa Palomino)<br /></li><li><span id="mn_Global"><span id="mn_Article"><a href="http://www.buenaventura.com/">Compania de Minas Buenaventura's</a> 1st Quarter Conference Call May 2 11am, EST (<a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-14-2008/0004792203&EDATE=">press release</a>) Live over <a href="http://www.videonewswire.com/event.asp?id=47121">internet</a></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">INT'L RELATIONS</span><br /><ul><li>Andean Countries Discuss Trade in Bolivia (<a href="http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B28BFF610-E0E8-4F55-93C0-AE66D0D5EF48%7D&language=EN">Prensa Latina</a>, Cuba) "<span class="normaltext4"><span style="font-style: italic;">At least 60 businesspeople from CAN (the Andean Community of Nations) are consolidating cooperation agreements and access to new markets during the first trade fair of the bloc, running as of Sunday for five days in La Paz</span>."</span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">TOURISM & TRAVEL</span><div id="dynamic-image-holder"><img title="Water view: the Amazon slips gently past the 15ft panoramic cabin window" src="http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00316/ama385_316271a.jpg" alt="Water view: the Amazon slips gently past the 15ft panoramic cabin window" border="0" height="185" width="385" /></div><!-- Remove following <div> to not show photographer information --><!-- Remove following <div> to not show image description --><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/destinations/latin_america/article3722114.ece">The Times</a>: Water view: the Amazon slips gently past the 15ft panoramic cabin window</span><br /><ul><li>Tourism booms amid concerns in Peru (<a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/travel/ci_8921717">Associated Press</a>, Leslie Joseph) <span style="font-style: italic;">"Relative peace and a booming economy draw boutique travelers to the Andean terrain and ancient ruins that were previously the domain of brave, budget-conscious backpackers."</span><span style="font-style: italic;" id="mn_Global"><span id="mn_Article"> with <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/portlet/article/html/render_gallery.jsp?articleId=8921717&siteId=568&startImage=1">5 accompanying photographs</a></span></span></li><li><span id="mn_Global"><span id="mn_Article">Cruising up the Amazon in Peru (<a href="http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/destinations/latin_america/article3722114.ece">The Times</a>, UK, Paul Croughton) "<span style="font-style: italic;">A new luxury cruise takes you to parts of the world’s mightiest river others cannot reach</span>." </span></span><span id="mn_Global"><span id="mn_Article">See related <a href="http://www.aquaexpeditions.com/">Aqua Expeditions</a></span></span><span id="mn_Global"><span id="mn_Article"> 'Luxury Amazon Voyages' with '<a href="http://www.aquaexpeditions.com/mv_aqua.asp?option=master_suites">Master Suites</a>' and online <a href="http://www.aquaexpeditions.com/mv_aqua.asp?option=deck_plan">deck plan</a></span></span></li><li><span id="mn_Global"><span id="mn_Article">TravelMole’s Silvia Gracia travels around Peru in 13 Days (<a href="http://www.travelmole.com/stories/1127957.php?mpnlog=1">TravelMole</a>)<br /></span></span></li><li><span id="mn_Global"><span id="mn_Article">New Hotel: Radisson Hotel San Isidro Opening (Carlson Hotels <a href="http://www.carlsonhotels.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=349">press release</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">The Radisson Hotel San Isidro offers the Zen Restaurant </span></span></span><span id="mn_Global"><span id="mn_Article"><span style="font-style: italic;">and is close to a variety of public transportation options including buses, minibuses and taxi service</span>.</span></span><span id="mn_Global"><span id="mn_Article">" Editorial Comment: Minibuses?</span></span><span id="mn_Global"><span id="mn_Article"><a href="http://www.buenaventura.com/"><br /></a><br /></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">ARTS & LITERATURE</span><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Asunci%C3%B3n-Pacifika/dp/B0013DI4FG/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1208256439&sr=8-1&tag=particculturf-20"> <img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TGp%2B%2BDzWL._SL160_AA115_.jpg" class="" alt="Asunción" border="0" height="115" width="115" /></a><br /><ul><li>REVIEW: <a href="http://www.pacifikaonline.com/">Pacifika's</a> 'Asunción' (<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120821983804914599.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">Wall Street Journal</a>, Jim Fusilli) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Vancouver may not bring to mind Latin pop, but the city is home to Pacifika, a trio whose debut album, "Asunción" (Six Degrees), is for the most part a charming collection of gently swaying yet insistent music with its roots in the southern part of the hemisphere</span>." Watch one of their <a href="http://www.pacifikaonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=">videos here</a>.</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">COULD PERUVIAN POTATOES SAVE THE WORLD? AGAIN?<br /></span><ul><li>As other staples soar, potatoes break new ground (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN0830529220080415">Reuters</a>, Terry Wade) <span style="font-style: italic;">Feature story accompanied by </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/articleslideshow?articleId=USN0830529220080415&channelName=companyNews#a=1">5 photographs</a><span style="font-style: italic;">; "The shocks to the food supply are very real and that means we could potentially be moving into a reality where there is not enough food to feed the world," said Pamela Anderson, director of the </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.cipotato.org/">International Potato Center </a><span style="font-style: italic;">in Lima</span>."</li><li>Factbox: Facts about the potato, a resurgent supercrop (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN0830336520080415">Reuters</a>) <span style="font-style: italic;">#1: "To boost demand, Peru's government has started to serve bread made from potato flour in its schools, hospitals, prisons and to members of its armed forces." #5: "The potato is the obvious inspiration behind the classic Mr. Potato Head toy</span>."<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">DRUGS ON BABY</span><br /><ul><li><span id="tamano" class="conteNoti1">Peruvian woman arrested in Argentina with cocaine attached to baby (<a href="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/198829,peruvian-woman-arrested-in-argentina-with-cocaine-attached-to-baby.html">Deutshe Press Agentur</a>)</span></li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;">SPORTS</span><br /><ul><li>Luis Horna (Peru) was defeated by Mischa Zverev (Germany) 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-4 at the <a href="http://www.tennis-x.com/tournament/Valencia.php">Valencia Open</a> (<a href="http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jbxCVE-6IvN11qoh0AEyojBK6qSg">Canadian Press</a>)</li><li>Vargas Ready For Roma Move (<a href="http://goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=659599">Goal</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">The versatile Peruvian has impressed in Sicily since transferring from Argentine club Colón in 2006, so much so that Roma reportedly made a ₤3 million bid for his services before the start of the current season</span>."<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style=""></span>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-36276379110358598912008-04-14T09:57:00.003-05:002008-04-14T17:34:55.095-05:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS</span>:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24407">Yale Daily News</a> (among others) reports that Yale may have many more Inca artifacts<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.mtv.ca/tvshows/4real/index.jhtml">MTV Canada</a> starts 4Real tonight featuring Cameron Diaz' 2007 Trip to Peru, according to the <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080414.w4real14/BNStory/Entertainment/Television/">Globe & Mail</a></li></ul><span style="font-style: italic;">Link suggestions, corrections and questions can be sent to </span><em style="font-style: italic;"></em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>peruvia</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;"> </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>@</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;"> </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>gmail.com</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;">.</em><br /><br /><br /><span id="midArticle_start"><a href="javascript:launchArticleSlideshow();"><img src="http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20080414&t=2&i=3867576&w=192&r=2008-04-14T000534Z_01_N13427115_RTRUKOP_0_PICTURE0" alt="Photo" border="0" /></a><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">YALE HOLDING MORE INCA ITEMS: "COUNTING IS COMPLICATED"</span><br /><ul><li>Discrepancy clouds count of Inca items (<a href="http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24407">Yale Daily News</a>, Paul Needham) "<span style="font-style: italic;">It turns out that there is no one way to count Inca artifacts. The Peruvian government announced Sunday that an inventory it conducted of Machu Picchu objects currently housed at Yale found some 40,000 pieces — about 10 times the number Yale had previously announced. But Yale officials said the discrepancy is a matter of mere arithmetic and not a sign of a significant disagreement</span>."</li><li>Peru report says Yale holding 40,000 Machu Picchu artifacts (<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24099877/">Associated</a> <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2008/04/13/peru_report_says_yale_holding_40000_machu_picchu_artifacts/">Press</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>)<br /></li><li>Yale 'holding Machu Picchu items' (<a href="http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5js3JMoLaHPZ7Iis2L0obn-r6rpJg">The Press Association</a>)</li><li>Will Yale return all 40,000 artifacts to Peru? (<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24108346/">Reuters</a>; <a href="http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2008-04-14T002326Z_01_N13427115_RTRUKOC_0_UK-PERU-YALE-MACHUPICCHU.xml">Reuters</a>, Jean Luis Arce)</li><li> Peru accuses Yale of undercounting Machu Picchu artifacts (<a href="http://www.andeancurrents.com/index.html">Andean Currents</a>)<br /></li><li>It All Comes Down To Counting: Yale Holding 40000 Inca Artifacts (<a href="http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_It_All_Comes_Down_To_Counting_Yale_Holding_40000_Inca_Artifacts_16346.html">eFlux Media</a>, Dee Chisamera) "T<span style="font-style: italic;">he latest report released by Peruvian authorities uncovered that Yale University is holding over 40,000 artifacts from the Inca citadel of Machu Pichu, roughly ten times the number of pieces that has been initially reported by the university. In an telephone interview, <a href="http://www.yale.edu/anthro/people/rburger.html">Yale Archaeology professor Richard Burger</a> said, as quoted by Yale Daily News: “Counting is complicated,” he said. “Do you count lots or do you count every piece? There may be tens of thousands of objects if you count each finger bone in a skeleton</span>.”</li><li>VIDEO: Peru Says Yale Holding 40,000 Artifacts (<a href="http://www.wtnh.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?ClipID1=2381562&h1=Peru%20says%20Yale%20holding%2040%2C000%20artifacts%20-%20by%20Kent%20Pierce&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=86466&LaunchPageAdTag=News&activePane=info&rnd=87943214">WTNH-8</a>, New Haven, Kent Pierce) see also <a href="http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=8160995&nav=3YeX">accompanying transcript</a><br /></li><li>VIDEO: Peru wants nearly 40,000 artifacts returned from Yale U. (<a href="http://www.necn.com/Boston/Arts-Entertainment/Peru-wants-nearly-40000-artifacts-returned-from-Yale-U/1208173348.html">NECN</a>)<br /></li><li><span style="font-style: italic;">FLASHBACK</span>: Yale To Return Artifacts, <a href="http://peruvia.blogspot.com/2007/09/politics-perus-president-rises-sharply.html">Peruvia</a>, Sept 17, 2007.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">EU/LAC Lima Summit - May 16</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><ul><li><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/world/lac/events_en.htm">Summit Homepage</a><br /></li><li>Germany's Merkel To Visit Latin America In May (<a href="http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20080414%5CACQDJON200804140744DOWJONESDJONLINE000160.htm&&mypage=newsheadlines&title=Germany%27s%20Merkel%20To%20Visit%20Latin%20America%20In%20May%20-%20AFP">Agence France Press</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">She will take part in a Europe-Latin America summit in Lima on May 16-17</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">UN DESTROYS LATIN AMERICA BOOKS</span><br /><ul><li>A Maker of Books Destroys 100,000 (<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/12/AR2008041201973.html">Washington Post</a>, Molly Moore) "<span style="font-style: italic;">For more than two decades, 250 historians and specialists labored to produce the first six volumes of the General History of Latin America, an exhaustive work financed by UNESCO. Then, over the course of two years, UNESCO paid to destroy many of those books and nearly 100,000 others by turning them to pulp, according to an external audit</span>." </li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">MACRO/MICRO ECON</span><br /><ul><li>Menzies sells Peruvian stake(<a href="http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/business/Menzies-sells-Peruvian-stake.3978193.jp">Edinburgh News</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">John Menzies, the Edinburgh-based logistics and aviation services group, has announced it is to dispose of its stake in a Peruvian firm. The company will receive disposal proceeds of £10.3 million from the disposal of aviation services business Talma Menzies SRL</span>."</li><li>Menzies Sells 50% Stake in Peru Venture for 10.3 Million Pounds (<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aUoySnCHVogk&refer=uk">Bloomberg</a>), Tracy Alloway) "It agreed to sell its 50 percent stake in a Peru-based aviation-services business to Sandoval Group for 10.3 million pounds ($20.3 million)."</li><li>John Menzies sells 50% stake in Peruvian JV for 10.3 mln pounds (<a href="http://www.hemscott.com/news/latest-news/item.do?newsId=63241245970966">Thomson Financial</a>)</li><li>Austral Buys Stake in Corp del Mar (<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aW8vmclRw4zY&refer=latin_america">Bloomberg</a>, last item) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peru's biggest fishmeal producer said it paid 185.6 million soles ($67.9 million) for a 50% stake in Corporacion del Mar SA. Pesquera Ezalmar bought the other 50% stake</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">MINING</span><br /><ul><li>Mine Opponents Face Lawsuit Based on Press Clippings (<a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41975">Inter Press Service</a>, Milagros Salazar) "<span class="texto1"><span style="font-style: italic;">Local activists and politicians in the northern Peruvian region of Piura who are facing charges of terrorism and extortion because of their activism to oppose mining investment projects supported by the government say the only evidence against them are photocopies of newspaper articles</span>."</span></li><li>Peru's mining and energy sector expects $20 billion investments by 2011 (EFE via Factiva) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Energy and Mines Minister Juan Valdivia said Saturday that in 2006, at the beginning of Peruvian President Alan Garcia's administration, investments of some $11 billion were expected for that period, but now those expectations have been greatly surpassed by the companies’ own projections of future investments, the government news agency Andina said</span>."</li><li>Vena Resources Advances Esquilache Polymetalic Project in Puno Peru (Vena <a href="http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=843133">press</a> <a href="http://www.venaresources.com/Theme/Vena/files/Vena%20Press%20Release%20-%20Apr14-08%20-%20Esquilache.pdf">release</a>)</li><li><a href="http://www.nilamresources.com/index.html">Nilam Resources</a> Receives Equity Financing For Pativilca Purchase (Nilam <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/080414/0386260.html">press release</a>)</li><li>Peru to grow more papayas (<a href="http://www.agra-net.com/portal/home.jsp?pagetitle=showlatestnews&art_id=20017522997">Agra-Net</a>)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">ARTS & LITERATURE</span><br /><ul><li>Review: Orpheus Chamber Singers (<a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-orpheus_0414gl.ART.State.Edition2.46512d1.html">Dallas Morning News</a>, Scott Cantrell) "<span class="vitstorybody"><span class="vitstorybody"><span style="font-style: italic;">Artistic director Donald Krehbiel had devised a typically stimulating program, starting with an anonymous Peruvian hymn sung, drum-accompanied, in procession</span>."</span></span></li><li><span class="vitstorybody"><span class="vitstorybody">Me Llamo Dora: An Explorer in Modern America (<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89531478">National Public Radio</a>, Rolando Arrieta) <span style="font-style: italic;">An aside: Peruvian-American </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.tv.com/kathleen-herles/person/300776/biography.html">Kathleen Herles</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> is the </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.tvguide.com/news/dora-explorer-herles/071104-01">voice</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> of </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20007143__1559994,00.html">Dora</a></span></span></li><li><span class="vitstorybody"><span class="vitstorybody">Salsa ambassador readies himself for the world (<a href="http://www.thesouthern.com/articles/2008/04/13/local/24108812.txt">The Southern</a>, Southern Illinois University, Scott Fitzgerald) </span></span>"<span style="font-style: italic;">When he goes to the stage this spring to receive his undergraduate degree in marketing, Southern Illinois University Carbondale student <span style="font-weight: bold;">Julio Barrenzuela</span> has made arrangements to be announced as "The Salsa Ambassador</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">TRAVEL</span><br /><ul><li>Cameron Diaz' 2007 Trip On MTV Canada (<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080414.w4real14/BNStory/Entertainment/Television/">Globe & Mail</a>, Toronto) "<span style="font-style: italic;">I gained a comfort up [in Machu Picchu] that I'd never really had with heights before</span><i style="font-style: italic;"></i><span style="font-style: italic;">. I get vertigo really easily. And when I jump out of planes or go rock climbing, I'm mostly terrified all the time. But being at Machu Picchu, well, it was just amazing</span>."</li><li>Babson names winners of 2008 biz plan contest (<a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/2008/04/14/daily1.html">Mass High Tech</a>) <span style="font-style: italic;">Chaska Hotel & Spa, a full-service, four-star, eco-friendly hotel in Peru's Sacred Valley, won second place in Babson College's 2008 business plan competitions.</span></li><li>International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association: Lima Tours recipient of Hall of Fame Award (IGLTA <a href="http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2008/04/international-g.html">press release</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.limatours.com.pe/english/contenido.html">Lima Tours</a> was one of the first companies in South America to reach out directly to welcome LGBT travelers and groups to show them the sights, sounds and exotic flavors of Peru</span>." </li><li>Cuban Photo Expo In Peru (<a href="http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BF61AD21E-42E3-484E-BB9D-CE4685D67670%7D%29&language=EN">Prensa Latina</a>, Cuba) <span style="font-style: italic;">A photo exhibit on Cuba was opened this weekend in Peru with the significant title "La Cubania" by artist Julio Larramendi." From EDUCAR in Lima it goes to Cuzco </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="normaltext4">(April 21 to 26) then the University of San Marcos.</span></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">PEOPLE</span><br /><ul><li>Consular Corps team entered in this year's Sun Run (<a href="http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/arts/story.html?id=184dd050-9b02-4cc3-b487-4128cd817af3">Vancouver Sun</a>, Karen Gram) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Rosa Marshall, honorary consul of Colombia, jokingly appointed the Consul of Peru [<span style="font-weight: bold;">Carlos Manuel Román</span>] to be captain of the Latin group in the consulate corps. But he is a reluctant participant, she says</span>."</li><li><span class="newsheadline">Woman welder wins big with Microfinance Loan </span>(<a href="http://www.thesop.org/index.php?id=10632">Student Operated Press</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Hardly anyone believed a young, female welder in Peru could be successful, but Miss Micro-Entrepreneur <span style="font-weight: bold;">Maria Ester Landa </span>proved them wrong. She's a jet engine welder and Peru's 'Miss Micro-Entrepreneur' of 2006</span>." See interview in <a href="http://www.elcomercioperu.com.pe/EdicionImpresa/Html/2006-05-16/impEntrevista0506889.html">El Comercio</a>.<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Valeria Rojas</span> Awarded Watson Fellowship (<a href="http://media.www.lawrentian.com/media/storage/paper409/news/2008/04/11/News/Valeria.Rojas.Awarded.Watson.Fellowship-3312732.shtml">The Lawrentian</a>, Dylan Reed-Maxfield)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">SPORTS</span><br /><ul><li>Davis Cup Process (<a href="http://www.daviscup.com/news/newsarticle.asp?articleid=14603">Davis Cup</a>) Peru included to participate in the 2008 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group Play-offs draw.</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">PLAYING CATCH-UP</span><br /><ul><li>Peruvian Court Convicts Military Squad of 1992 University Killings (<a href="http://chronicle.com/daily/2008/04/2478n.htm">Chronicle of Higher Education</a>, <a href="http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/author.aspx?id=124">Mike Ceaser</a>)</li></ul>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-83982491253922569962008-04-13T07:10:00.001-05:002008-04-13T19:50:10.853-05:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS</span>:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=8a01d1dc-c51e-4b9b-959c-9a6fed2229d5">Aero News Network</a> suggests a panicked tourist contributed to the fatal Nazca accident</li><li>The <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/Entertainment/Columnists/Harris_Bill/2008/04/13/5271996.html">Toronto Sun</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span> reports on Cameron Diaz' 2007 Peru trip being broadcast on <span>MTV (8pm, April 14); and around the world except USA, Canada, UK on National Geographic (starting April 23)</span><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span>" <a href="http://www.4real.com/tv/details.asp?pageid=14">Watch Preview</a><br /></li></ul><span style="font-style: italic;">Link suggestions, corrections and questions can be sent to </span><em style="font-style: italic;"></em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>peruvia</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;"> </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>@</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;"> </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>gmail.com</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;">.<br /><br /></em><span style="font-weight: bold;">NAZCA FLIGHT TRAGEDY</span><br /><ul><li> Pilot Says Panicked Tourist Contributed To Fatal Peru Accident (<a href="http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=8a01d1dc-c51e-4b9b-959c-9a6fed2229d5">Aero News Network</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">The pilot and sole survivor of April 9 downing of Cessna 206 in southern Peru says the accident was caused by a passenger who became frantic, and tugged on the pilot's safety harness. Carlos Bartra reportedly told Aero Ica one of the passengers panicked shortly after takeoff. ... Aero Ica theorized the female passenger Bartra identified may have become panicked by strong winds in the are</span>a."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">EDUCATION CHALLENGES</span><br /><ul><li><span id="default">VIDEO: Peru's teachers fail test (<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7340000/newsid_7341900/7341906.stm?bw=nb&mp=rm&news=1&nol_storyid=7341906&bbcws=1">BBC</a>, Dan Collyns) "</span><span style="font-style: italic;">A staggering 95% of Peru's teachers have failed a government test to assess how qualified they are</span>."</li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">TRAVEL</span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.lascasitasdelcolca.com/web/ocol/ocol_a2a_home.jsp">Casitas del Colca</a> Opens April 15 (Independent, UK) <span style="font-style: italic;"> Orient Express's eagerly awaited </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.lascasitasdelcolca.com/web/ocol/ocol_a2a_home.jsp">Casitas del Colca</a><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span> opens in Arequipa this week, a luxury Andean retreat with 20 stone 'casitas'. The spa (opens May) offers indigenous treatments and Colca Canyon views</span>.</li><li><span style="font-style: italic;">FLASHBACK</span>: See 'Flying Condors' in Colca in <a href="http://peruvia.blogspot.com/2004/07/peru-is-melting-reuters-reports-that.html">Peruvia</a>, July 23, 2004<br /></li><li>Getting To Knew Peru And Her People (<a href="http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:j2FA_zjtmukJ:www.annistonstar.com/lifestyle/2008/as-ttravel-0412-0-8d11t4615.htm+iquitos+site:www.annistonstar.com&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=firefox-a">Anniston Star</a>, Georgia, David Boozer) <span style="font-style: italic;">travelogue to the </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.nature.org/wherewework/southamerica/peru/work/art17217.html">Pacaya-Samiria Reserve</a></li><li>Peru Lures Wealthy Tourists - Like Bill Gates & Cameron Diaz (<a href="http://www.malaya.com.ph/apr14/trav1.htm">Reuters</a>) <span style="font-style: italic;">Machu Picchu now comes "complete with five-star hotels, world-class restaurants, luxury trains and an indoor oxygen system. In recent months, Cuzco has been visited by Bill Gates and Cameron Diaz</span>."</li><li>Cameron Diaz' 2007 Peru Trip on MTV (<a href="http://www.torontosun.com/Entertainment/Columnists/Harris_Bill/2008/04/13/5271996.html">Toronto Sun</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Diaz's 2007 trek to Peru is featured in the first episode of 4REAL, tomorrow on MTV (8pm, April 14); around the world except USA, Canada, UK on National Geographic (starting April 23).</span>" <a href="http://www.4real.com/tv/details.asp?pageid=14">Watch Preview</a> and 16 video segments including: <a href="javascript:onclick=showmedia('Tetris Masters','4rpr_tetris_masters.flv','Playing tetris on the streets of Cusco, Peru!','1');">Tetris Masters</a>; <a href="javascript:onclick=showmedia('People of Medicine','4rpr_people_of_medicine.flv','Awakening youth to their culture through music.','1');">People of Medicine</a>; <a href="javascript:onclick=showmedia('Hanging on the Train','4rpr_hanging_on_the_train.flv','Next stop, Machu Picchu!','1');">Hanging on the Train</a>.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">MINERS SAVED</span><br /><ul><li>Peru rescues seven miners trapped by landslide (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSN1338974220080413">Reuters</a>, Jean Luis Arce) "<span style="font-style: italic;">It was not clear what minerals drew miners to the small, informal site</span>."</li><li><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">earlier today</span>: Seven miners trapped at Peruvian site in the Andes (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN12285362">Reuters</a>, Teresa Cespedes) "<span style="font-style: italic;">The rubble trapped miners on Friday at the Chuncanaqui site in the Ancash region, north of Lima</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">ARTS & LITERATURE</span><br /><ul><li>Mansfield University To Study Gamaliel Churata in Peru (<a href="http://www.stargazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080413/NEWS01/804130333/1001/NEWS">Star-Gazette</a>, New York and <a href="http://www.mansfield.edu/news/story/default.cfm?SID=1193">press release</a>) "<a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://faculty.mnsfld.edu/wkeeth/">William Keeth</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> (Mansfield University) has been accepted into the </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.ccha-assoc.org/andeanworld08/">Andean Worlds Project</a><span style="font-style: italic;">, a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. I hope to greatly advance my research related to </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamaliel_Churata">Gamaliel Churata</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> and the early avant-garde writers in the Andes</span>."</li><li><span id="default">VIDEO: Marc Anthony Concert in Lima (<a href="http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/ynews?ch=4226715&cl=7332686&lang=en">Associated Press</a>)</span></li><li><span id="default">PHOTOGRAPH: An Honorable Mention (<a href="http://blog.cleveland.com/travel/2008/04/picture_perfect_travel_photo_w.html">Cleveland Plain Dealer</a>) <span style="font-style: italic;">Tisha Wade's </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;" id="default"></span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.cleveland.com/cgi-bin/prxy/photogalleries/nph-cache.cgi/cache=3000;/cleve/images/8789/13.jpg">photograph</a><span style="font-style: italic;" id="default"> contrasted the shades of green on the banks of Lake Titicaca.</span><br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">DE SOTO ON FRIEDMAN</span><br /><ul><li>A Fresh Look at the Apostle of Free Markets (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/weekinreview/13goodman.html?sq=peruvian&st=nyt&scp=1&pagewanted=all">New York Times</a>, Peter Goodman) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Prominent Peruvian economist" <a href="http://ild.org.pe/en/organization/desoto">Hernando de Soto</a> is quoted in a profile of Milton Friedman: “Among the cognoscenti, he became the figure that represented the war against the overwhelming welfare state." But Mr. De Soto faulted Mr. Friedman for failing to temper his admonitions with an understanding of poverty and income inequality</span><span style="font-style: italic;">. “The problem with Milton Friedman and his fellow libertarians is they never took into consideration the importance of class. They ignored the way elites were able to distort the policies they prescribed for their own benefit</span>.”</li><li><span style="font-style: italic;">FLASHBACK</span>: De Soto Wins Friedman Prize (in <a href="http://peruvia.blogspot.com/2004/04/de-soto-wins-prize-cato-institute.html">Peruvia</a>, April 2004)</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">CATCH & RELEASE MARLINS ONLY</span><br /><ul><li>No More Marlins (<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/627/story/493971.html">Miami Herald</a>) third story; <strong style="font-weight: normal;">"<span style="font-style: italic;">The president of </span></strong><span style="font-style: italic;">Peru has signed a declaration to decommercialize marlin and sailfish in that country's waters, according to a news release from the Fort Lauderdale-based Billfish Foundation. The foundation said the decree means no commercial harvest nor sale will be allowed for the species and recreational fishing will be catch-and-release</span>."</li><li>Blue Fish Foundation Assists a Nation’s President Set a New Standard for Billfish Conservation (Bill Fish Foundation <a href="http://www.billfish.org/new/">press release</a>) <span style="font-style: italic;">See photograph of President Garcia with Foundation representatives at bottom of this post</span><br /></li><li><span style="font-style: italic;">FLASHBACK</span>: Peruvian barman recounts 32 days with 'Don Ernesto' Hemingway (<a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200502/ai_n13266935">Agence France Press</a>, 2005) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Pedro Cordova remembers the 32 days legendary American author Ernest Hemingway spent fishing marlin and filming the silver-screen adaptation of his famous book "The Old Man and the Sea" in Cabo Blanco in northern Peru</span>."<br /></li><li><span style="font-style: italic;">FLASHBACK</span>: Hemingway's Peruvian fishing expedition (<a href="http://www.andeancurrents.com/2007/07/hemingways-peruvian-fishing-expedition.html">Andean Currents</a>, Aug. 1, 2007) "<span style="font-style: italic;">In 1953, club owner and Texas oilman Alfred Glassell snared a 14 feet, seven inches long 1,560 pound black marlin - </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2000/april/object_apr00.php">the largest bony fish ever caught with a rod and reel</a><span style="font-style: italic;">. The record still stands today</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">NEW USA CITIZEN IN IRAQ</span><br /><ul><li>Fort Bragg Soldiers Become US Citizens in Iraq (<a href="http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/2725931/">WRAL</a>, North Carolina) <span style="font-style: italic;">re: includes Pfc. Zully L. Schaeffer</span></li><li>Servicemembers in Iraq become U.S. citizens (<a href="http://www.blackanthem.com/News/Military_News_1/Servicemembers-in-Iraq-become-U-S-citizens-259-raise-their-hands-in-largest-U-S-overseas-naturalization-ceremony15774.shtml">Black Anthem</a>, Jeremy Crisp) "<span class="general_text"><span class="article_text"><span style="font-style: italic;">Schaeffer's family is originally from Peru and they now reside in Allentown, Penn</span>."</span></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">FOOD QUOTES?</span><br /><ul><li>"<span style="font-style: italic;">Deadly food riots have already broken out in Egypt, Indonesia, Cameroon, Peru and Haiti</span>." (<a href="http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Article.aspx?id=746905">The Times</a>, India)<br /></li><li>"<span style="font-style: italic;">In Peru, shortages of wheat flour are prompting the military to make bread with potato flour, a native crop</span>." (<a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/12/18492403.php">Bay Area Indymedia</a>, San Francisco)<br /></li><li>"<span style="font-style: italic;">Rising prices have hit poor countries like Haiti and Peru and even developed countries like Italy and the United States</span>." (<a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5grx0b7ACJGfO0vp9wgSxVvj4XDlAD9009EV80">Associated Press</a>, Julhas Alam)</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">OTHER QUOTES</span><br /><ul><li>OPINION: Government by itself is not always the problem (<a href="http://www.alamogordonews.com/opinion/ci_8906266">Almogordo Daily News</a>, New Mexico) "<span id="default"><span style="font-style: italic;">Or why not have severely limited government like Rwanda or Peru where only the richest can attend school or be protected by private police</span>?"</span></li><li>Letter: Interesting reactions to Clinton, Obama (<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/04/13/opinion/letters/28-reactions.txt">Billings Gazette</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">As a former educator of teens and a missionary of more than three decades in Peru, I'm really not surprised that huge numbers of our younger voters are enthusiastic about Barack Obama. Sister Catherine Nichol)"</span></li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;">SPORTS</span><br /><ul><li>Pizarro and His Horses (<a href="http://sport.guardian.co.uk/horseracing/story/0,,2273286,00.html">Guardian</a>, UK) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Chelsea's Claudio Pizarro, who owns 1,000 Guineas outsider Raymi Coya with trainer Marco Botti, was looking for new equine recruits at the Doncaster Breeze-Up Sale. The Peru striker can certainly afford to add his string of racehorses, he is reportedly paid £2.5million per annum</span>."</li></ul><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.billfish.org/new/">Below</a><span style="font-style: italic;">: President Garcia with Dave Ferrell (Marlin magazine), Rafael Rey, Mercedes Araoz, and Ellen Peel (Billfish Foundation)</span><br /><img src="http://www.billfish.org/images/Peru_large.jpg" border="0" /><br /> <span class="style19"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style=";font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12;" > <p align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style=";font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" ><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-217705082783828252008-04-12T06:21:00.005-05:002008-04-12T10:06:57.269-05:00<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />NAZCA FLIGHT TRAGEDY<br /></span><ul><li>Lawmakers seek better tourist protection after deadly Peru plane crash (<a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/12/america/LA-GEN-Peru-Plane-Crash.php">Associated </a><a href="http://www.pr-inside.com/lawmakers-seek-better-tourist-protection-after-r532804.htm"> Press</a>, Carla Salazar) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Lawmakers sought tougher tourism safety measures Friday, two days after five French tourists were killed in an airplane crash en route to the country's famed Nazca lines. The Aero Ica Cessna plane went down Wednesday near a landing strip in Peru's desert. Only the Peruvian pilot survived. The plane became tangled in high-tension cables after the pilot tried to return to the landing strip shortly after take off. The plane did not have enough lift to clear a three-story building</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">TRAVEL</span><br /><ul><li>No More Room On Inca Trail; booked out through August (<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activityandadventure/1308617/No-more-room-on-the-Inca-Trail.html">The Telegraph</a>, Mark Rowe) <span style="font-style: italic;">"Before the introduction of permits, up to 2,000 tourists walked the trail each day in the high season, which runs from April until September.The present quota is set at 500 permits a day, each costing £45, but because walkers must be part of a group employing a guide, cook and porters, just 200 permits are available for tourists</span>."</li><li>Beauty of Andes not to be missed (<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/11/TRM7102J50.DTL">San Francisco Chronicle</a>) "<span id="bodytext" class="georgia md"><strong style="font-style: italic;"></strong><span style="font-style: italic;">Worth A Splurge: A room at the Hotel Monasterio in Cusco after four days of hiking</span>."</span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">INT'L COOPERATION</span><br /><ul><li><span class="style3"> Peruvian Traveling Fair arrives in San Diego (</span><a href="http://www.navycompass.com/modules.php?name=Top_Stories&action=view&id=259">Navy Compass</a>, Christal A. Bailey) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peruvian Navy transport ship BAP Mollendo (ATC 131) arrived in San Diego on April 10. Mollendo, commanded by Capitan de Fragata, Gonzolo Carrera Mazuelos, and its 139 enlisted Sailors and 38 officers are hosting tours of Mollendo, which houses a museum displaying some of Peru's industrial products such as cotton and alpaca textiles and cultural artifacts from the Incas</span>."</li><li><span class="NewsHeadingBig">razil is promoting South American Defence Council </span>(<a href="http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=13137&formato=HTML">MercoPress</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Brazil’s Minister of Defence Nelson Jobim announced visits to neighboring countries to promote the Brazilian initiative for a South American Defence Council. “The purpose of these visits is to draft a mid term or possibly long term South American defense identity so that we can have a strong, united continent”, said Jobim</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"> INT'L COOKING PRISON COMPETITION</span><br /><div><a href="http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTTkg.zgBI_QsBdB7RtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMzRvMDBnBHBvcwM5BHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=135o5pdat/EXP=1208098750/**http%3a//news.yahoo.com/news%3ftmpl=story%26u=/080411/ids_photos_wl/r2504704944.jpg"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080411/t/r2504704944.jpg" alt=" Italian inmates Gerardo Frigieri (R) and Stefano celebrate after winning a cooking competition at Sarita Colonia prison in Callao April 11, 2008. Frigieri, a former chef, won the contest with an Italian Spaghetti Bolognese. Inmates from Colombia, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Canada and Peru participated in the cooking competition in the prison with a population of about 2,600 inmates, including 865 foreigners. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo (PERU) " title=" Italian inmates Gerardo Frigieri (R) and Stefano celebrate after winning a cooking competition at Sarita Colonia prison in Callao April 11, 2008. Frigieri, a former chef, won the contest with an Italian Spaghetti Bolognese. Inmates from Colombia, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Canada and Peru participated in the cooking competition in the prison with a population of about 2,600 inmates, including 865 foreigners. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo (PERU) " height="83" width="130" /></a></div> <div><a href="http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTTkhhzABIQQoBoRnRtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMzRvMDBnBHBvcwM5BHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=13c4ekomo/EXP=1208098273/**http%3a//news.yahoo.com/news%3ftmpl=story%26u=/080411/481/bcf697dcdcb44243a362f026f58d7407"></a><div><a href="http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTTkhhzABIQQoBohnRtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBkYTNuNGk0BHBvcwMxMARzZWMDc3I-/SIG=13c4hv6nq/EXP=1208098273/**http%3a//news.yahoo.com/news%3ftmpl=story%26u=/080411/481/345f3f27dc02420f9b952e4ff4bb943a"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080411/thumb.345f3f27dc02420f9b952e4ff4bb943a.peru_prisoner_cuisine_lim105.jpg" alt=" Mexican inmates Jorge Montoya, center, tosses a salad while Jesus Castillo, right, and Claudio Suarez look on during a typical foreign food contest at Sarita Colonia prison in Callao, Peru, Friday, April 11, 2008. 865 out of 2,640 prisoners of this jail are foreigners, most of them imprisoned on drug charges. Peru is the world's second largest cocaine producer after Colombia. (AP PhotoMartin Mejia) " title=" Mexican inmates Jorge Montoya, center, tosses a salad while Jesus Castillo, right, and Claudio Suarez look on during a typical foreign food contest at Sarita Colonia prison in Callao, Peru, Friday, April 11, 2008. 865 out of 2,640 prisoners of this jail are foreigners, most of them imprisoned on drug charges. Peru is the world's second largest cocaine producer after Colombia. (AP PhotoMartin Mejia) " height="90" width="129" /></a><br /></div> </div><ul><li>Cooking Competition in Callao (<a href="http://www.daylife.com/search/photos/all/1?q=peru+sarita">Associated Press photographs</a>) Yesterday the Sarita Colonia prison in Callao held their foreign food contest. 865 out of 2,640 prisoners are foreigners, most of them imprisoned on drug charges. Contestants included <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080411/ids_photos_wl/r1681487592.jpg/">Canadians</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080411/481/59a4b8303bcf444cb8abeed6d9128b80/">Italians</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080411/481/345f3f27dc02420f9b952e4ff4bb943a/">Mexican</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080411/481/bcf697dcdcb44243a362f026f58d7407/">French</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080411/ids_photos_wl/r966124245.jpg/">Colombians</a>, and <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080411/481/96df8abcdf4e4799bba79803b13a73a7/">Spanish</a>. And <ahem> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080411/ids_photos_wl/r4033359576.jpg/">Peruvians</a>. The <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080411/ids_photos_wl/r2504704944.jpg/">Italians won</a> with former chef Gerardo Frigieri and his Italian Spaghetti Bolognese.</ahem></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">ARTS & LITERATURE</span><br /><ul><li>World-renown artists perform in Peru thanks to tax-cut law, says president García (<a href="http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=tgVA943v02s=">Andina Press Agency</a>) "<span id="lblContenido" class="edpNoticiaContenido"><span style="font-style: italic;">García indicated that thanks to the referred legislation, signed last year on December 19, famed artists such as Bryan Adams, Marc Anthony and White Lion</span>."</span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">MACRO/MICRO ECON</span><br /><ul><li><span class="news_story_title">Peru's Sol Drops After Central Bank Raises Reserve Requirement </span>(<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aODkBmPrpZVQ&refer=latin_america">Bloomberg</a>, Andrea Jaramillo) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peru's sol had its biggest decline in almost three months after the central bank tripled the reserve requirement on foreigners' deposits in local banks to curb capital inflows. The sol dropped 0.9% to 2.739 per dollar. "Foreign banks were taking advantage of the sol's appreciation by taking out term deposits with local banks,'' said a currency trader at Banco Santander SA in Lima. The reserve requirement increase "takes away that incentive and we'll probably start seeing dollars leave Peru as a result of this in the next few week</span>s.''</li><li>OPINION: Latin American Economies Steady Despite Global Financial Shock (<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/10/AR2008041001845.html">Washington Post</a>, Marcela Sanchez)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">MAILING DRUGS TO VIRGINIA</span><br /><ul><li> Three USA Marines investigated in heroin transaction (<a href="http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/042008/04122008/370927">Free Lance Star</a>, Virginia, Keith Epps) "<span style="font-style: italic;">The investigation stems from a Sept. 6 incident in which Peruvian narcotics officers seized a package at Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima. The package was addressed to an apartment on Republic Way in Stafford, where two Marines stationed at Quantico live</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">FOOD</span><br /><ul><li>'La Limena' in Washington DC-area (<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/10/AR2008041001173.html">Washington Post</a>, Tom Sietsema) "<span style="font-style: italic;">It would be easy to miss this fine little restaurant, all but invisible in the corner of a plain-Jane shopping mall</span>."</li><li>Eat Like a Tourist In Your Local (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/apr/11/restaurants.london?gusrc=rss&feed=travel">The Guardian</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">For many years, travellers have returned from Peru with strange tales of a lurid yellow drink. The mysterious beverage is </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.ericjlyman.com/incakola.html">Inca Kola</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> and graduates of the gringo trail can relive their South American experiences at </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.titoseateries.com/">Tito's restaurant</a><span style="font-style: italic;">, which serves the bubblegum-flavoured drink along with stronger Peruvian tipples, such as Cusquena beer and </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.go2peru.com/pisco.htm">Pisco sours</a><span style="font-style: italic;">. Reviews are </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.london-eating.co.uk/4123.htm">mixed</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> but the menu has regional specialities such as ceviche, parihuela, lomo saltado and aji de gallina, while apparently steering clear of </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/apr/06/peru.travelfoodanddrink">cuy</a><span style="font-style: italic;">. </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.elaguajal.co.uk/aguajal.htm">El Aguajal</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> (54 Balls Pond Road, N1 4AP) is another Peruvian joint with a good reputation</span>."</li><li>Brewers get extreme as they create new beers (<a href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/0/6F1284BB25CB716D862574290008937C?OpenDocument">St. Louis Post-Dispatch</a>, Jeremiah McWilliams) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Marc Gottfried, brewmaster at Morgan Street Brewery on Laclede's Landing, has experimented with ingredients like maple syrup and pumpkin mash cooked in crock pots. His next project: a naturally purple beer brewed with a Peruvian beverage</span>."<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">SPORTS</span><br /><ul><li>Flamengo overcome altitude worries to beat Cienciano (<a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/UK_WORLDFOOTBALL/idUKB71423820080410">Reuters</a>, Brian Homewood) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Flamengo, who have led a campaign by Brazilian clubs to end matches at high altitude, cruised to a 3-0 win over Peru's Cienciano at 3,300 metres above sea level in the Libertadores Cup on Wednesday</span>."</li><li>So Flamengo, what was all the altitude fuss about? (<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/soccer/2008/04/11/so-flamengo-what-was-all-the-altitude-fuss-about/">Reuters blog</a>, Brian Homewood) "<span style="font-style: italic;">So what was the big fuss about? Recent results suggest that altitude does not really offer anything more than a small advantage to the home team, rather similar to playing on a bumpy pitch or in weather which the visitors are unused to. ... It also begs the question: are Brazilian clubs and the media, which has helped stoke up public opinion, being hypocritical?</span>"</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">SISTER CITIES</span><br /><ul><li>UK towns venturing farther for twins (<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e5977bfc-081e-11dd-a922-0000779fd2ac.html">Financial Times</a>, Jim Pickard) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Towns are twinning themselves with ever more exotic partners, including Timbuktu, Ulan Bator and Machu Picchu, in a telling sign of how the planet is shrinking. Haworth, the Yorkshire birthplace of the Bronte sisters, says it twinned itself with Machu Picchu, the ruined city in Peru, not only because “we wanted to” but because the two were “more similar than you may think”. Both had populations of just less than 3,000, were “50 miles from the nearest regional capital” and “evoke past societies”, said Haworth’s 'twin town group</span>'.”</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">CHURCH NEWS</span><br /><ul><li>Rev. Michael Chapman Going To Peruvian Seminary (<a href="http://www.lincolntribune.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=8609">Lincoln Tribune</a>, North Carolina, Karen Bolick) <span style="font-style: italic;">Leader in the </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.thwnc.mysite.com/">Holy Way</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> to teach at the Seminary of Saints Augustine in Lima. "Fr. Chapman speaks fluent Spanish and is familiar with the Quechua language of the Inca Empire. “It is difficult to say exactly where we will be and what we will be doing</span>."</li></ul>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-19551194043168221302008-04-11T05:16:00.001-05:002008-04-11T06:45:52.961-05:00<div><a href="http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTTkpaSf9H8jUBkhDRtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBjZmpxdmw3BHBvcwM3BHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=135l8kras/EXP=1207999194/**http%3a//news.yahoo.com/news%3ftmpl=story%26u=/080410/ids_photos_wl/r3505734614.jpg"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080410/t/r3505734614.jpg" alt=" A view of the wreckage of an aircraft from Aero Ica airliner that crashed in Peru's city of Nazca April 09, 2008. The light aircraft crashed when flying over the Nazca lines 443 km (275 miles) south of Lima, killing 5 french tourists, local media said. REUTERS/Stringer (PERU) " title=" A view of the wreckage of an aircraft from Aero Ica airliner that crashed in Peru's city of Nazca April 09, 2008. The light aircraft crashed when flying over the Nazca lines 443 km (275 miles) south of Lima, killing 5 french tourists, local media said. REUTERS/Stringer (PERU) " height="88" width="130" /></a></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"> NAZCA FLIGHT TRAGEDY</span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news;_ylt=A0WTTknnSv9Hm9IA9xHRtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBhNjRqazhxBHNlYwNzZWFyY2g-?p=ica+reuters&c=images&ei=UTF-8&fr=&x=wrt">Reuters</a> photos of accident</li><li><a href="http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news;_ylt=A0WTTkr3Sv9HdTcBehbRtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBhNjRqazhxBHNlYwNzZWFyY2g-?p=ica+ap&c=images&ei=UTF-8&fr=&x=wrt">Associated Press</a> photos of accident<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">OLYMPICS</span><br /><ul><li> Peruvian president supports Beijing Olympic Games (<a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/11/content_7960236.htm">Xinhua</a>) <span style="font-style: italic;">in an op-ed in El Comercio</span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">EU-LAC SUMMIT</span><br /><ul><li>EU-LAC summit to seek pragmatic outcomes (<a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/11/content_7958593.htm">Xinhua</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;" id="Zoom">25 heads of state and government of the 27 EU countries have confirmed their attendance at the two-day summit on May 16 in the Peruvian capital of Lima.</span><span id="Zoom"><span style="font-style: italic;"> Only Italy, apparently because of a pending election, and Cyprus have not confirmed their attendance</span>."</span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">MACRO/MICRO ECON</span><br /><ul><li><span class="news_story_title">Peru Bank Unexpectedly Raises Lending Rate to 5.5% </span>(<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=anQ0RQtkF7us&refer=news">Bloomberg</a>)</li><li>Peru's central bank raises key rate to 5.5% (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7453649">Reuters</a>)</li><li>Oil and gas in Peru (<a href="http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11023252">The Economist</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">A decade, says Peru's prime minister, Jorge del Castillo, his country will be a net exporter of energy. ... Environmentalists and indigenous groups have misgivings</span>."</li><li>Companies Propose Pipelines in Southern Peru (<a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN1048397220080410?sp=true">Reuters</a>, Marco Aquino) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Suez Energy and Kuntur Gas Transport have presented the Peruvian government with plans to build two gas pipelines, worth about $2 billion. Both links would be supplied by gas from the Camisea field</span>."</li></ul> <span style="font-style: italic;">Micro</span><br /><ul><li>Doe Run Peru Says Govt Declared Strike Illegal (<a href="http://individual.com/story.php?story=80640627">Dow Jones</a>)<br /></li><li>America Movil Peru launches 3G network (<a href="http://www.telegeography.com/cu/article.php?article_id=22602&email=html">TeleGeography</a>)<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></li><li>Peru Authorizes Starting Of First Fishing Season (<a href="http://www.abnnewswire.net/press/en/50210/Peru.html">Asian Business Network</a>)</li><li><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.racinoroyale.com">Racino Royale</a> enters Peru Gaming Market with Slot Machine Agreement (<a href="http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/TO47510042008-1.htm">press release</a>)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">MAKING MONEY</span><br /><ul><li> Peruvian police seize counterfeit cash worth over $7 mln (<a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/11/content_7959375.htm">Xinhua</a>) "<span id="Zoom"><span style="font-style: italic;">This is reportedly the largest haul of forged currency in Peru</span>."</span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">AMAZON POLITICS & HISTORY</span><br /><ul><li>Rumble in the Jungle: How barefaced capitalism can help save the Amazonian rainforest (<a href="http://www.economist.com/world/la/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11017681">Economist</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peru's Madre de Dios region has been undergoing an ecotourism boom. More than 70 'eco-lodges' cater to tourists from around the world, eager to experience a few days in the Amazon. Last year more than 60,000 foreigners visited the area, a 20-fold increase over 15 years</span>."</li><li>REVIEW: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tree-Rivers-Amazon-John-Hemming/dp/0500514011?tag=particculturf-20">Tree Rivers</a>, by John Hemming (<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04/13/bohem113.xml">The Telegraph</a>, UK) <span style="font-style: italic;">Every tributary of the Amazon's history</span></li><li>REVIEW: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tree-Rivers-Amazon-John-Hemming/dp/0500514011?tag=particculturf-20">Tree Rivers</a>, by John Hemming; reviewed by Hugh Thomson (<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04/12/bohem112.xml">The Telegraph</a>, UK) <span style="font-style: italic;">The Story of the Amazon</span><br /></li><li>Uncontacted tribes flee across the border (<a href="http://www.survival-international.org/news/3214">Survival International</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Uncontacted tribes in Peru are fleeing across the border to Brazil because illegal mahogany loggers are invading their territory and killing them, according to an uncontacted tribes expert</span>."</li><li>New Species Of Infectious Disease Found In Amazon (<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080401225633.htm">Science Daily</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">While investigating the tropical disease leptospirosis in the Peruvian Amazon, Joseph Vinetz (UC, San Diego), an infectious disease specialist has uncovered new, emerging bacteria that may be responsible for up to 40 percent of cases of the disease</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">ARTS & LITERATURE</span><br /><ul><li>Juan Diego in NYC (<a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/04112008/entertainment/a_taste_of_fille_for_free_105941.htm">New York Post</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">On April 18, starting at 10 a.m., there'll be exhibits, rehearsal and a Q&A with the cast of Donizetti's "La Fille du Regiment," starring Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez.</span>"</li><li>Abraham Bojorquez, no bling-bling rapper (<a href="http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20080403-rapper-bolivia-native-americans-aymara">France24</a>) "We started up Aymara rap a few years ago, to denounce neoliberal politics."<br /></li></ul><div><a href="http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTTkqXSv9HHDcBOx3RtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBjdmNoOTVjBHBvcwMyBHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=135qnq4n1/EXP=1207999511/**http%3a//news.yahoo.com/news%3ftmpl=story%26u=/080410/ids_photos_sp/r2997005634.jpg"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080410/t/r2997005634.jpg" alt=" Peruvian female referee (L) Silvia Reyes shows a red card to Deportivo San Martin striker Mario Leguizamon from Uruguay during their national league game against Alianza Atletico, April 6, 2008. Leguizamon was sacked by Peruvian champions Deportivo San Martin for insulting Reyes who sent him off during a match last weekend. Leguizamon made insulting remarks with sexual connotations in a television interview after being shown the red card. Picture taken April 6, 2008. REUTERS/Eddy Lozano/Libero (PERU) " title=" Peruvian female referee (L) Silvia Reyes shows a red card to Deportivo San Martin striker Mario Leguizamon from Uruguay during their national league game against Alianza Atletico, April 6, 2008. Leguizamon was sacked by Peruvian champions Deportivo San Martin for insulting Reyes who sent him off during a match last weekend. Leguizamon made insulting remarks with sexual connotations in a television interview after being shown the red card. Picture taken April 6, 2008. REUTERS/Eddy Lozano/Libero (PERU) " height="90" width="130" /></a></div> <span style="font-weight: bold;">SPORTS</span><br /><ul><li>Soccer-Player sacked in Peru for insulting female referee (<a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldFootballNews/idUKL1048259720080410">Reuters</a>, Jean Luis Arce) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Uruguayan striker Mario Leguizamon made insulting remarks with sexual connotations in a television interview after being shown the red card by Silvia Reyes in last Sunday's match against Alianza Atletico. ... "How long has it been since Peru went to the World Cup? How long is it since Peru won anything?</span>" </li><li>Peru's San Martin dumps striker Mario Leguizamon for insulting female referee (<a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/10/sports/LA-SPT-SOC-San-Martin-Insult.php">Associated Press</a>) <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080410/ids_photos_sp/r2997005634.jpg/">see</a> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080410/ids_photos_sp/r1457674388.jpg/">photos</a><br /></li><li>Tomcito Preparing For Kentucky Derby (<a href="http://tcm.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=44528">Bloodhorse</a>)</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">MATERNAL HEALTH</span><br /><ul><li>Peru makes progress on maternal health (<a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673608605413/fulltext">The Lancet</a>) (see summary in <a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/103593.php">Medical News Today</a>)<br /></li><li>50 nations not meeting goals on birth deaths (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/11/development">The Guardian</a>, Sarah Boseley) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peru, Brazil and Indonesia have made the most progress on reducing deaths in children under-five, the new report shows</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">POTATOES</span><br /><object style="width: 100%;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://uk.reuters.com/resources/flash/includevideo.swf?edition=UK&videoId=80093" height="320" width="344"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="movie" value="http://uk.reuters.com/resources/flash/includevideo.swf?edition=UK&videoId=80093"><embed src="http://uk.reuters.com/resources/flash/includevideo.swf?edition=UK&videoId=80093" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="320" width="344"></embed></object><br /><ul><li>VIDEO: Peru Returns To Potatoes (<a href="http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?rpc=401&videoId=80093&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName=TopNews&rpc=401">Reuters</a>, Pavithra George) "replacing expensive wheat bread with potato bread."</li><li>Doctor's mission to Peru to protect humble potato (<a href="http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=156582&command=displayContent&sourceNode=156408&contentPK=20368896&folderPk=87028&pNodeId=156139">Lincolnshire Echo</a>, UK) "<span id="main1">David Nelson, a Lincolnshire potato expert has been to Peru to help the nation save its spuds from extinction." <a href="http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=156130&command=displayContent&sourceNode=156582&contentPK=20369385"><span style="font-style: italic;">Read Nelson's blog</span></a></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONGRATS TO FLORIDA BOY</span><br /><ul><li>Bill to help feed hungry named after 11-year-old advocate (<a href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-flfjack0411sbapr11,0,6694174.story">Sun-Sentinel</a>, Florida, Josh Hafenbrack) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Jack Davis and his sixth-grader's cause: Making it easier for restaurants to donate their leftover food to homeless shelters and charities. ... During a trip to his mother's native Peru, Jack saw a nation with widespread poverty and came home determined to salvage leftovers headed to the garbage bin</span>."</li></ul>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-26322604252058806902008-04-10T06:31:00.003-05:002008-04-10T07:49:29.066-05:00<span style="font-style: italic;">Link suggestions, corrections and questions can be sent to </span><em style="font-style: italic;"></em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>peruvia</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;"> </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>@</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;"> </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>gmail.com</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;">.<br /><br /></em><a href="javascript:void(popitupbig('http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/04/09/PH2008040903759.html',650,850))"><img src="http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/04/09/PH2008040903759_STMB.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">FRENCH TOURISTS KILLED IN NAZCA FLIGHT</span><br /><ul><li>Five French tourists killed in Peru plane crash: police (<a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ghk8919IQch0JEeKwYH0WQWMcqcg">Agence France Press</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Firefighters said the Cessna 206, owned by the Aero Ica firm, was completely destroyed in the crash, although the Peruvian pilot survived and was hospitalized in Nazca</span>."</li><li>5 French Tourists Killed in Peru Crash (<a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j4RVKmA1F17Va6fIXtbt47_1oOswD8VULNF80">Associated Press</a>)</li><li>Associated Press <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/04/09/PH2008040903759.html">photograph</a>: OB 1266</li><li>Tourists Die In Plane Crash (<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7339856.stm">BBC</a>)<br /></li><li> Plane crash kills five French tourists in Peru (<a href="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/197952,plane-crash-kills-five-french-tourists-in-peru.html">Deutsche Press Agentur</a>)<br /></li><li>Tourists killed viewing Nazca Lines from plane (<a href="http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/newsbriefs/story.html?id=8d03fadc-a6a1-4b9a-8e4e-35c9a3ed18d8">Ottawa Citizen</a>) </li><li>Five tourists killed in air crash near Peru's Nazca (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN09464190">Reuters</a>)<br /></li><li>Plane crash in Peru kills five (<a href="http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/04/10/plane_crash_in_peru_kills_five/2165/">UPI</a>) tangled in power lines?<br /></li><li> Peru small plane crash kills 5 French tourists (<a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/10/content_7952148.htm">Xinhua</a>)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">FUJI FILES</span><br /><ul><li>Death Squad Convictions May Doom Fujimori (<a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41929">Inter Press Service</a>, Ángel Páez) "<span style="font-style: italic;">The salient point in the verdict of the court presided over by Inés Villa, one of the most respected anti-corruption judges in Peru, is that it </span><span style="font-style: italic;" class="texto1">concludes that the Colina Group, made up of SIE agents, acted with the knowledge and authorisation of Fujimori. </span><span class="texto1"><span style="font-style: italic;"> A video was shown on Monday at Fujimori’s separate trial for human rights abuses, in which the former chief of the Colina Group, Martín Rivas, said that the death squad acted with Fujimori’s approval</span>.</span>"</li><li>Peru jails military officers for student massacre (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN09449826">Reuters</a>)<br /></li><li>Peru court sentences 4 former military officers for Fujimori-era (<a href="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/04/peru-court-sentences-4-former-military.php">Jurist</a>)</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS</span><br /><ul><li>Dispatches From a Legal Reporter in Iraq (<a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1207737848479">American Lawyer</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">An interesting side note: Like many functions here, security is run by private contractors. And every private guard I've seen in Baghdad is Peruvian</span>."</li><li>Peruvian Navy Ship Visited Seattle (<a href="http://www.defencetalk.com/news/publish/navy/Peruvian_Navy_Ship_Visits_Seattle120015493.php">Defence Talk</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Navy Region Northwest said farewell to the Peruvian Navy transport ship BAP Mollendo (ATC 131) April 6, following a port visit. USA Rear Adm. Stewart O'Bryan, commander, Carrier Strike Group 3, who was on board Mollendo April 4 for a Peruvian buffet style banquet, said, "It's very important for Peru and the United States that our navies work together as we both fight terrorism." Mollendo, which left Seattle's Elliot Bay April 6, will make one final stop in San Diego before returning to its homeport in Lima, Peru</span>. <a href="http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=BJb&q=%22BAP+Mollendo%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi">Images of the ship</a><br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">MACRO/MICRO ECON</span><br /><ul><li>Peru Bank May Keep Rate Steady, Betting Inflation Can Be Tamed (<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=auLAquSV_32A&refer=news">Bloomberg</a>)</li><li>Peru to hold five bilateral meetings at 5th APEC Tourism (<a href="http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=03/SFwwmii4=">Andina Press Agency</a>) <span style="font-style: italic;">includes China, Japan and Korea</span></li><li>Turkey: growing demand for fruits and vegetables from Peru (<a href="http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=19722">Fresh Plaza</a>) <span style="font-style: italic;">According to Elías Mendoza Habersperger Consul of Turkey from Peru</span></li><li>Latin American optimism dented (<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/730ab25e-05ce-11dd-a9e0-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1">Financial Times</a>, Richard Lapper)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-style: italic;">Trade</span><br /><ul><li>EDITORIAL Running Scared From Free Trade (<a href="http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=292632935793780">Investers Business Daily</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Teamster chief Jim Hoffa, for instance, famously said "no" to Peru's pact and "hell no" to Colombia's</span>."<br /></li><li>Trade with Peru good for manufacturing (Opinion: <a href="http://blog.mlive.com/wmbr/2008/04/trade_with_peru_good_for_manuf.html">Michigan Business Review</a>, John Engler) <span style="font-style: italic;">The writer is former governor of Michigan, and president the National Association of Manufacturer</span></li><li>China's New Brand of Free Trade (<a href="http://www.forbes.com/markets/2008/04/09/china-nz-fta-markets-econ-cx_jc_0409markets36.html">Forbes</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">By no coincidence, [Peru and other] countries are among the more than 50 that have recognized China’s claim to have reached the status of a full market economy, unlike its top two trading partners, the U.S. and European Union</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-style: italic;">Mining</span><br /><ul><li>Peru's Doe Run subsidiary loses environmental certification (<a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/10/business/LA-FIN-Peru-Doe-Run.php">Associated Press</a>)</li><li>Peru's Doe Run subsidiary loses certification (<a href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/8CFB01EB3494A994862574270015FD1F?OpenDocument">St. Louis Post-Dispatch</a> via AP)<br /></li><li>Votorantim raises offer to up stake in Peru's Milpo (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN0947958220080410">Reuters</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Brazilian conglomerate Votorantim said on Wednesday it will raise its offer by 16 percent to increase its stake in Peruvian miner Milpo</span>."</li><li>DJ Brazil's Votorantim Ups Share Price Offer For Peru Miner Milpo (<a href="http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1339158/">Dow Jones</a>, Robert Kozak)</li><li>Candente CEO sees new resource study ready in May (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN0839556320080408">Reuters</a>)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">ENVIRONMENT</span><br /><ul><li>Timber! Peruvian wood merchant arrested in multi-million-dollar investigation (<a href="https://www.complinet.com/profile/login.html">Complinet</a>)</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">ARTS & LITERATURE</span><br /><ul><li>FILM: <span id="Site"><span id="ArticlePage">"Against the Grain: An Artist's Survival Guide to Peru" </span></span>(<a href="http://www.montereyherald.com/entertainment/ci_8874649">Monterey County Herald</a>, California) <span id="Site"><span id="ArticlePage"><span style="font-style: italic;">Showing on April 10 at Cabrillo College; Ann Kaneko's documentary follows four artists censored by the Peruvian government for the political content of their work. Tobin Keller or Rose Sellery at 479-6308</span>.</span></span></li><li><span id="Site"><span id="ArticlePage">'Against the Grain: An Artist's Survival Guide to Peru" <a href="http://www.againstthegrain-peru.blogspot.com/">watch the trailer</a></span></span></li><li><a href="http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Music/Content?oid=oid%3A108910" id="s-TpBD8fpCl2mYKUk18R-8Qg:u-AFrqEzdF3YAu7tAG5iFEzyJkksQkejLOVA:r-4i_0"><img src="http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=6455re_OEeYJ&imgurl=www.tucsonweekly.com/binary/108910-273-1/qscans-24420.jpeg" alt="" border="1" height="72" width="80" /></a><span id="Site"><span id="ArticlePage">MUSIC </span></span>REVIEW: '<a href="http://www.barbesrecords.com/rootsofchicha.html">The Roots Of Chicha</a>: Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru<span id="Site"><span id="ArticlePage"> (<a href="http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Music/Content?oid=oid%3A108910">Tucson Weekly</a>) "</span></span><i style="font-style: italic;">The 17 tracks by six different combos on The Roots of Chicha </i><span style="font-style: italic;">were all recorded in Peru between 1968 and 1978</span>."<br /></li><li><span id="Site"><span id="ArticlePage"><a href="http://www.benningtonjazz.com/">Jimmy Bennington Trio</a> at the Jazz Zone in Miraflores April 11, 12 (<a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb844304.htm">press release</a>)</span></span></li><li><span id="Site"><span id="ArticlePage">BOOK REVIEW: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Girls-Trucks-Katie-Crouch/dp/0316002119?tag=particculturf-20">Girls in Trucks</a>: Katie Crouch (<a href="http://wweek.com/editorial/3422/10791/">Willamette Week</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">She flies halfway around the world to live in Peruvian hostels with a man she hardly knows, because, hey, it beats being alone</span>."<br /></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">CHARITY IN CUZCO?</span><br /><ul><li>Building a future for the forgotten (<a href="http://living.scotsman.com/features/Building-a-future-for-the.3967570.jp">Edinburgh Evening News</a>, Sandra Dick)</li><li>Triton students collecting items for trip to Peru (<a href="http://www.newburyportnews.com/punews/local_story_101065804.html">Daily News</a>, Massachussetts, Katie Curley) "T<span>hough some Peruvian schoolchildren have never seen colored pencils or used a comb, local students Max Nichou and Andrew Fitzgerald will be bringing these supplies to ... </span><span>villages in the Andes such as Paruru, Aquas Calientes and Cuzco</span><span>."</span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">CHARITY IN CANADA?</span><br /><ul><li>Peru students love Canada, hate weather (<a href="http://www.georginaadvocate.com/News/Richmond%20Hill/article/72792">Georgina Advocate</a>) "We should loosen up and pucker up, exchange students say."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">SPORTS</span><br /><ul><li>Copa Libertadores: Brazil's Flamengo routs Peru's Cienciano 3-0 (<a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/10/sports/LA-SPT-SOC-Cienciano-Flamengo.php">Associated Press</a>)<br /></li></ul>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-63555503856367126412008-04-09T06:23:00.001-05:002008-04-09T05:57:17.707-05:00<a class="pbl" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/cbbc/newsid_7330000/newsid_7336500?redirect=7336591.stm&news=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&nbram=1" onclick="javascript:newsi.utils.av.launch({el:this});return false;"><img src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44549000/jpg/_44549703_perurescue_grab_puff.jpg" alt="Man being rescued" class="imvr" align="left" border="0" height="66" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="66" /> <br /><img src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/v3/img/bg_video_text.gif" alt="" align="left" border="" height="13" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="54" /> </a> <br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">FLOODS IN NORTHERN PERU</span><br /><ul><li>VIDEO: Daring Rescues in Peru Floods (<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080408-flood-video-ap.html">Associated Press</a>)</li><li>Video Feed: Severe Flooding in Peru (<a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/04/09/vo.peru.floods.ap">Associated Press</a>)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">FUJI FILES: La Cantuta</span><br /><ul><li>Peru Court Convicts Four For 1992 Massacre (<a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g6Dn1N_FOCLT7iSA4snMFW4Skg5QD8VU2I7G2">Associated Press</a>, Monte Hayes)</li><li>Four Convicted in 1992 University Massacre (<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040803045.html">Washington Post</a> via Associated Press)<br /></li><li><span class="storybody">Peru convicts death squad four (<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7337911.stm">BBC</a>)</span></li><li><span class="storybody">Peruvian army general sentenced to 35 years for 1992 massacre (<a href="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/197668,peruvian-army-general-sentenced-to-35-years-for-1992-massacre.html">Deutsche Press Agentur</a>) "</span><span style="font-style: italic;">General Julio Salazar Monroe was convicted on charges of murder and forced disappearance of the victims from La Cantuta University, court officials said</span>."<br /><span class="storybody"></span></li><li>Four Peru 'death squad' members found guilty of murder (<a href="http://www.eecho.ie/news/story/?trs=mhojgbidaukf">Echo Star</a>) "<span class="storybody"><span style="font-style: italic;">A Peruvian court has convicted a former general and three members of a military death squad of kidnapping and murder in a ruling that prosecutors say could set a precedent in the trial of former President Alberto Fujimori</span>."</span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">TODAY IN HISTORY</span><br /><ul><li><span class="storybody">April 9, 2000 - Peruvian Elections (<a href="http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2008/04/09/the_almanac/3693/">UPI</a>) "</span><span name="intelliTxt" id="intelliTXT"><span style="font-style: italic;">On this date in 2000, Peru's President Alberto Fujimori failed to win a first-round election victory, forcing a run-off in May that he won. However, a vote-fraud scandal forced him to step down later in the year</span>."</span></li><li><span name="intelliTxt" id="intelliTXT">April 9, 2004 - Drug Discovery (<a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/09/america/NA-GEN-Today-In-History.php">Associated Press</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Colombian authorities announce an embarrassing discovery as Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo arrives to discuss anti-drug strategies: a large stash of cocaine and heroin on the naval warship he is to visit</span>." See <a href="http://peruvia.blogspot.com/2004/04/trouble-reading-peruvia-press-f11-key_17.html">Peruvia's summary from 2004</a>.<br /></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">TAKING COKE HOME</span><br /><ul><li>Czech smuggling 3.8 kg of cocaine detained in Peru (<a href="http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=306457">Czech Happenings</a> <span style="font-style: italic;">via</span> EFE)</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">MACRO/MICRO ECON</span><br /><ul><li>Pro Mujer Peru Makes Low Cost Life Insurance Available to 43,000 Poor Women Entrepreneurs (Pro Mujer <a href="https://promujer.org/dynamic/lang_EN/press_releases_articles_26_Pdf_Pro%20Mujer-InVita.pdf">press</a> <a href="https://promujer.org/index.tpl?NG_View=47&NG_Id=26">release</a>)</li><li>Colombia and Cat (<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120769888492599767.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">Wall Street Journal</a> editorial) "Caterpillar exports more to Peru and Colombia than it does to Germany, Japan or the United Kingdom."</li><li>An Overview of Peru's Stock Market (BLOG: <a href="http://seekingalpha.com/article/71580-an-overview-of-peru-s-stock-market">Seeking Alpha</a>)</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">MINING</span><br /><ul><li>Rocmec Updates Progress on Peruvian Acquisition Project (Rocmec <a href="http://www.rocmecmines.com/actualites/Peru_update_2008-04-08.htm">press</a> <a href="http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/industries/industrials/article/rocmec-updates-progress-peruvian-acquisition-project_553435_6.html">release</a>)</li><li>Xstrata Copper eyes strong growth in Peru (<a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN0837431620080408?sp=true">Reuters</a>, Pav Jordan and Antonio de la Jara) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Xstrata Copper will likely boost its output of the red metal in Peru to up to 500,000 tonnes over the next five years if all goes as planned and it gets its Antapaccay and Las Bambas projects into production</span>."</li><li>Inca Pacific eyes cash for mine as waits on permit (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSN0843205120080408">Reuters</a>, Terry Wade)</li><li>Candente CEO sees new resource study ready in May (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN0839556320080408">Reuters</a>, Terry Wade)</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">CHILE RELATIONS</span><br /><ul><li>Chile apologises for birth in hospital lavatory (<a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/nelsonmail/4470867a6418.html">Reuters</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Chile's government has publicly apologised after a woman was forced to give birth in the lavatory of a public hospital after she failed to receive medical attention, and ordered an investigation. Bernadita Vega, 37, from Peru, arrived at a public hospital in the capital Santiago in labor late on Monday, and waited two hours for a doctor to see her. Ultimately, her partner helped her deliver a baby boy in a hospital restroom</span>."</li><li>Investigation to begin for woman who gave birth in bathroom at San José Hospital (<a href="http://www.emol.com/noticias/ingles/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=299676">El Mercurio</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">The minister of Heath, María Soledad Barría, has announced that an investigation will begin at San José Hospital to shine light on the case of a Peruvian woman who gave birth in a bathroom at the medical facility after waiting to be seen by a doctor for two hours</span>."</li><li>Chile Is Not Bolivia (<a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2008/04/chileans-to-jam.html">Los Angeles Times blog</a>) <span style="font-style: italic;">The upcoming James Bond movie is being filmed in northern Chile. "Mayor Lopez is reportedly miffed that Chile was being used in the film to represent rival Bolivia, a sensitive issue in those parts. Chile annexed a considerable chunk of mineral-rich northern territory from Bolivia and Peru in a victorious 19th century war against its neighbors. Hard feelings still persist in all three nations</span>."<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">SPORT</span><br /><ul><li>Pizarro denies indiscipline, criticises Peru federation (<a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/footballNews/idUKL0864792720080408">Reuters</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peru striker Claudio Pizarro, banned playing for his country for 18 months for alleged indiscipline, said Tuesday that he was innocent and accused the country's federation of bad management</span>."<br /></li><li>Dutchman to row from Peru to Brisbane (<a href="http://news.smh.com.au/dutchman-to-row-from-peru-to-brisbane/20080409-24sj.html">Australian</a> <a href="http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=277527">Associated Press</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Dutch adventurer Ralph Tuijn will resume his solo row from Peru to Brisbane next month after twice abandoning the attempt due to rough weather</span>."</li><li>College Tennis (<a href="http://www.projo.com/sports/mikeszostak/projo_20080408_bryant.44eeb7f9.html">Providence Journal</a>, Rhode Island) "<span class="vitstorybody"><span class="vitstorybody"><span style="font-style: italic;">Jose Rodriguez of Peru is 11-3 overall, 9-2 at No. 2 singles</span>."</span></span></li><li><span class="vitstorybody"><span class="vitstorybody">Chess Tournament (<a href="http://www.hindu.com/2008/04/09/stories/2008040951391700.htm">Hindu</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peru’s Zuniga Julio Granda lost in 22 moves of the Nimzo Indian in the eight-player Ruy Lopez Masters chess tournament at Merida, Spain</span>."<br /></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">NECKLACE FOUND</span><br /><ul><li>Worth the wait in gold (<a href="http://media.wildcat.arizona.edu/media/storage/paper997/news/2008/04/09/News/Worth.The.Wait.In.Gold-3312428.shtml">Wildcat</a>, University of Arizona, Aly Van Dyke) <span style="font-style: italic;">An interview with the archeology professor who found the historic necklace in Peruvian Andes; "On a dig in the late 1990s in the Peruvian Andes, Aldenderfer and his team unearthed the oldest known gold artifact to be found in the Americas</span>.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">ARTS & CULTURE</span><br /><ul><li>Vallejo on Griffin Short List (<a href="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=782d7fc6-632c-4c97-ba19-cb522380bf63&k=60019">Montreal Gazette</a>) <span style="font-style: italic;">'</span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10496.html">César Vallejo, The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition</a><span style="font-style: italic;">'</span><span style="font-style: italic;">, Clayton Eshleman's translation of the late Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo, is shortlisted for the $100,000 Griffin Poetry Prize</span>. See also: 'Homage' in <a href="http://peruvia.blogspot.com/2007/08/general-quake-update-peru-quake-victims.html">Peruvia, April 26, 2007</a>.</li><li>Poets Vie For Griffin Prize (<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/04/08/griffin-prize.html">CBC</a>)<br /><br /></li></ul>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-66069568365731645422008-04-08T06:34:00.002-05:002008-04-08T08:00:35.061-05:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">Editor's Note:</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Thank you to all who have sent in notes, tips, and regards.<br />Peruvia will only be updated peripatetically.<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Link suggestions, corrections and questions can be sent to </span><em style="font-style: italic;"></em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>peruvia</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;"> </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>@</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;"> </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>gmail.com</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;">.<br /><br /></em><a name="/n/pictures/2008/04/07/rescue12.jpg"></a><div class="item"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?o=10&f=/g/a/2008/04/07/dip.DTL" target=""><img src="http://imgs.sfgate.com/n/pictures/2008/04/07_t/rescue12_t.gif" title="Click to view" alt="Click to view" /></a></div><span style="font-weight: bold;">NOTHERN FLOODS</span><br /><ul><li>Peru airlifts relief to marooned northern districts (<a href="http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/346258/cs/1/">Irish Sun</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">The National Weather Service said there was no visible sign that the rain would relent in weeks to come</span>."<br /></li><li>Police pull a man from a raging river swollen by heavy rains in Cajamarca (<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/g/a/2008/04/07/dip.DTL&o=10">San Francisco Chronicle</a>)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">SNOW IN LIMA?</span><br /><ul><li>Settled science, or dogged dogma? (<a href="http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20080408/COLUMN/360445049">Aspen Times</a>, Addison Gardner) "<span style="font-style: italic;">In Lima, Peru, Dec. 17 — the Ward family (missionaries) built a snow fort in their backyard</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">QUAKE UPDATE</span><br /><ul><li>Playrooms for young population affected by quake serve many roles (<a href="http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-7DGS7N?OpenDocument">United Nations Children's Fund</a>, Elsa Ursula)</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">A REVIEW OF WONG</span><br /><ul><li>To get a real taste of Peru, visit the 'superstar of supermarkets' (<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2008/04/08/life-in-peru.xml">The Telegraph</a>, Alison Roberts) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peruvians can't get enough of it, and Wong holds a similar place in their hearts. I can see why. It's the superstar of supermarkets and I've fallen under its spell too</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">OLYMPICS & SPORTS</span><br /><ul><li>Peru Olympic commitee chairman objects boycotting Beijing Olympics (<a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/08/content_7940921.htm">Xinhua</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Carlos </span><span id="Zoom"><span style="font-style: italic;">Paz-Soldan believes that all forms of boycotts of the Beijing Olympics are doomed to failure. "We object to the boycotting of Beijing Olympics," he said</span>."</span></li><li>The silence of the Bombonera (<a href="http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=735839.html">FIFA</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">It was at this very venue, a place where many of the world's finest players have struggled to perform, that Peru pulled off one of the biggest achievements in their footballing history</span>."</li><li>Pizarro To Fight Peruvian International Ban (<a href="http://goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=642224">Goal.com</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Denied drinking alcohol or having women in his hotel room while on international duty with Peru</span>."</li><li>Dos y Dos: ISA Finals In Peru (<a href="http://www.surfline.com/surfnews/article_bamp.cfm?id=14653">Surfline</a>)</li><li>World Masters Surfing Championship (<a href="http://www.surferspath.com/news/category/events/team-south-africa-are-the-isa-world-masters-surfing-champs/sp_123896.html">Surfers Path</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">The Peruvian team rounded out the top four with 8766-points</span>."<br /><span id="Zoom"></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">CHINA RELATIONS</span><br /><ul><li>Peru hopes to establish direct flight to China soon (<a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/08/content_7939100.htm">Xinhua</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;" id="Zoom">Peru's First Vice President Luis Giampietri Rojas </span><span style="font-style: italic;" id="Zoom">said startup of the flight will help realize Peru's aim of turning Lima International Airport into a major traffic hub among all 21 APEC members. ... </span><span id="Zoom"><span style="font-style: italic;">Peru receives 10,000 Chinese visitors each year and the number is expected to reach 250,000 by 2015</span>."</span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">MACRO ECON</span><br /><ul><li>Peru Doe Run smelter says production hit by strike (<a href="http://www.mining-journal.com/Breaking_News.aspx?breaking_news_article_id=4553">Mining Journal</a>) "La Oroya smelter and metallurgical facility struck for a third day on April 7. ... Peru is the world`s second-largest producer of copper and zinc and its fifth-largest producer of gold. It is the largest silver producer in the world."</li><li>Peruvian Miners Strike (<a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/apr2008/wkrs-a08.shtml">World Socialist Website</a>)</li><li>Letter to Editor Questions Trade (<a href="http://www.chicoer.com/opinion/ci_8848153">Chico Enterprise Record</a>, California) "<span id="RDS_global"><span style="font-style: italic;">Recently we [the USA] signed a trade agreement with Peru. For your information, in 2006, Peru sold $5.9 billion worth of goods to the United States, while buying $2.9 billion in U.S. exports. Vern Leathers</span>"</span></li><li><span id="RDS_global">Columnist Supports Trade (<a href="http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080408/COLUMNISTS0212/804080315/1057/COLUMNISTS">Argus Leader</a>, Froma Harrop) "</span><span style="font-style: italic;">And the U.S.-Peru free trade agreement "took an important step forward," she said, in tightening the environmental rules. Among other things, it stopped the flow of illegally logged timber from Peru</span>."</li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;">MICRO ECON</span><br /><ul><li>Haynes and Boone Represents Irradia in Complex Cross-Border Financing of Peruvian Natural Gas Facility (<a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/Haynes_and_Boone/Irradia/prweb833774.htm">press release</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">The natural gas feedstock for the project will be sourced from the Camisea field in eastern Peru and transported by a pipeline, owned by several large international oil companies, from the Camisea field to Lima</span>."</li><li>Milpo stresses own value in face of Votorantim offer (<a href="http://steelguru.com/news/index/2008/04/08/NDE1Mzk%3D/Milpo_stresses_own_value_in_face_of_Votorantim_offer.html">Steel Guru</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">BNamericas reported that Peruvian zinc miner Milpo is urging shareholders to think twice about tendering their shares to a public offer from Brazilian owned Votorantim Metais</span>."<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">WOMEN IN PERU</span><br /><ul><li>Better care urged for world's moms, babies (<a href="http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695268385,00.html">Deseret News</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Gina Tambini, the area manager of family and community health for the Pan American Health Organization, said one woman in Peru asked after her young son died why no one had told her it was important to wash her hands to avoid diseas</span>e."</li><li>ADRA gives economic opportunities to women in Peru (<a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/219487/120757690746.htm">Adventist Development and Relief Agency</a>, Nadia McGill)</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">FOOD</span><br /><ul><li>Potatoes seen as 'food of the future' (<a href="http://www.foodnavigator.com/news/ng.asp?n=84493-solanic-avebe-fao-potato-proteins">Food Navigator</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">In Peru, the government is urging people to eat bread made with potato flour to try to reduce costly wheat imports and keep food price inflation down</span>."</li><li>Tacna and Moquegua Regions in Southern Peru Declared Fruit Fly Free Areas (<a href="http://www-naweb.iaea.org/nafa/news/fruit-fly-free-peru.html">FAO</a>)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">BURNING DRUGS</span><br /><ul><li>Peru incinerates over 4 tons of illicit drugs (<a href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2008-04/08/content_6599008.htm">Xinhua</a>)</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">DIEGO-MANIA</span><br /><ul><li>The Lima wedding over the weekend is covered by media around the globe; a sampling includes the <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-0/1207643529160090.xml&coll=2">Cleveland Plain Dealer</a> and the <a href="http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080408/ENT07/804080361/1046">Detroit Free Press</a>. See video of the wedding in yesterday's Peruvia. <br /></li><li> Peruvian opera star weds in Lima cathederal (<a href="http://www.andeancurrents.com/2008/04/peruvian-opera-star-weds-in-lima.html">Andean Currents</a>)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">OTHER</span><br /><ul><li>Amazing lighting show at Real Felipe Fortress in Callao (<a href="http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=gzMFciU8i2E=">Andina Press Agency</a>)<br /></li><li>Bank details online for a fiver (<a href="http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/226134.html">Web User</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peru has the highest rate of malicious activity per broadband subscriber in the world</span>."</li><li>Charleton Heston Obituary Cites <span style="font-style: italic;">Cine Metro</span> in Lima (<a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-et-heston8apr08,1,5295003.story">Los Angeles Times</a>, Carina Chocano)</li></ul>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-27258443572531320902008-04-07T05:54:00.006-05:002008-04-07T08:54:48.577-05:00<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0); FONT-STYLE: italic">Editor's Note:</span> <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Thank you to all who have sent in notes, tips, and regards.<br />Peruvia will only be updated peripatetically.<br /></span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Link suggestions, corrections and questions can be sent to </span><em style="FONT-STYLE: italic"></em><a style="FONT-STYLE: italic" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>peruvia</em></a><em style="FONT-STYLE: italic"> </em><a style="FONT-STYLE: italic" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>@</em></a><em style="FONT-STYLE: italic"> </em><a style="FONT-STYLE: italic" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>gmail.com</em></a><em style="FONT-STYLE: italic">.<br /><br /></em><div><a href="http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTTkjBgflHuPcAEhvRtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBjb3ZrYjNkBHBvcwM0BHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=13c713tki/EXP=1207620417/**http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/080406/481/b0dabca67c7540c6a52dd40da25d95df"><img title=" A boy walks in front of home that was destroyed by flood waters in Chiclayo in northern Peru, Sunday, April 6, 2008. At least 10 people have died due to flooding caused by heavy rains in Peru. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia) " height="88" alt=" A boy walks in front of home that was destroyed by flood waters in Chiclayo in northern Peru, Sunday, April 6, 2008. At least 10 people have died due to flooding caused by heavy rains in Peru. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia) " src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080406/thumb.b0dabca67c7540c6a52dd40da25d95df.peru_floods_mm103.jpg" width="129" /></a></div><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">FLOODS IN CHICLAYO</span><br /><ul><li>The Associated Press offers several (<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080406/481/b0dabca67c7540c6a52dd40da25d95df/">1</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080406/481/e92c11d6a80d4901a875e0c0f35fe8d7/">2</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080406/481/06184d591e6a4b48812abd2a6295bf5c/">3</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080406/481/b0dabca67c7540c6a52dd40da25d95df/">4</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080406/481/b0dabca67c7540c6a52dd40da25d95df/">5</a> ) photographs of the destruction caused by flood waters in Chiclayo in northern Peru. At least 10 people have died due to flooding caused by heavy rains.</li><li>Expert: Climate change to bring Peru more extreme weather (<a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/07/content_7933364.htm">Xinhua</a>) "<em><span id="Zoom">Peru's National Meteorological and Hydrology Service's </span><span id="Zoom">Sixto Flores</span></em><span id="Zoom"><em> told reporters in Lima that according to Pan American Health Organization, the Andean country has been the third most vulnerable country by extreme weather, following Honduras and Bangladesh</em>."</span></li></ul><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">DIALING PERU? ADD '9' TO CELLS</span><br /><ul><li>Peru migrates to 9-digit system for mobile telephony (<a href="http://www.telecom.paper.nl/news/article.aspx?id=210144&nr=">Telecom Paper</a>) </li></ul><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">VALLEJO HONORED<br /></span><ul><li><a href="http://spanport.byu.edu/instituto_vallejiano/index.html">Instituto de Estudios Vallejianos</a> marks 70th Anniversary (<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_8835422">Salt Lake Tribune</a>) "<em>The Brigham Young University Instituto de Estudios Vallejianos will mark the 70th anniversary of the death of well-known Peruvian writer Cesar Vallejo in a bilingual dance and theatre celebration Tuesday with the production, "Yo. solo Cesar Vallejo</em>." </li></ul><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">INTERNATIONAL VISITS</span><br /><ul><li>Peru to build new posts on border to step up security before regional summits (<a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/07/content_7933162.htm">Xinhua</a>) "<em>The work is part of preparations for the Latin America, Caribbean and European Union Summit due to be held in Peru in May as well as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum Summit due in November</em>."</li></ul><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">MACRO/MICRO ECON</span><br /><ul><li>World Bank lowers Latinamerica growth prospects to 4.8% (<a href="http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=13076&formato=HTML">Merco Press</a>) "<em>Latinwatch forecasts Peru to expand 7%, after having grown 9% in 2007</em>."</li><li>From rice in Peru to miso in Japan, food prices are rising (<a href="http://www.agweekly.com/articles/2008/04/06/news/ag_news/news43.txt">Associated Press</a>, Katherine Corcoran)</li><li>On-Demand Desktop Hardware/Software Support Simplifies Management and Cuts Costs for Peruvian Bank (<a href="http://www.outsourcing-journal.com/apr2008-peru.html">Outsourcing Journal</a>) </li></ul><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">MORE COKE NEWS</span><br /><ul><li>Peru police seize 2 tonnes of cocaine in pair of co-ordinated raids (<a href="http://www.thecanadianpress.com/english/online/OnlineFullStory.aspx?filename=w0330125A&newsitemid=28015019&languageid=1">Associated Press</a>)</li></ul><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">ENVIRONMENT</span><br /><ul><li>Goldman Environmental Prize Winner <a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/608">Julio Cusurichi Palacios</a> on Saving People and Land in the Peruvian Amazon (<a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/goldman-prize-julio-cusurichi-palacios.php">Tree Hugger</a>)<br /></li><li>Amazing Amazon Adventure (<a href="http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/Amazing-Amazon-adventure.3942648.jp">Northumberland Gazette</a>, UK)</li></ul><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">FUJI FILES<br /></span><ul><li>Former Peruvian president faces trial (<a href="http://media.www.dailyvidette.com/media/storage/paper420/news/2008/04/07/News/Former.Peruvian.President.Faces.Trial-3305786.shtml">Daily Vidette</a>, Illinois State University, Andrew Rosten) "<a href="http://www.politicsandgovernment.ilstu.edu/faculty_staff/biographydetail.asp?u=cparodi">Dr. Carlos Parodi</a> <em>presents a speech titled, "Can Former Presidents be Tried for Human Rights Violations? Lessons Learned from Peru's Alberto Fujimori</em>."</li></ul><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">IMMIGRATION</span><br /><ul><li>Immigration agency sweep wraps up with 332 arrests (Miami Herald) </li></ul><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">JUAN DIEGO WEDS (Diego-mania)</span><br />Scenes from Saturday's wedding ceremony, courtesy of Peruvian television networks.<br /><br /><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xb2zLdzydVM&hl=" width="425" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"></embed><br /><ul><li>see <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MBBig1-wEw">Part 2 of video</a><br /></li></ul>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-53785909668687335052008-04-06T07:03:00.004-05:002008-04-09T05:56:54.268-05:00<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Editor's Note:</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Thank you to all who have sent in notes, tips, and regards.<br />Peruvia will only be updated peripatetically.<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Link suggestions, corrections and questions can be sent to </span><em style="font-style: italic;"></em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>peruvia</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;"> </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>@</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;"> </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>gmail.com</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;">.<br /><br /></em><div><a href="http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTTkmkz_hHINMAhgHRtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBkYTNuNGk0BHBvcwMxMARzZWMDc3I-/SIG=135iglpqv/EXP=1207574820/**http%3a//news.yahoo.com/news%3ftmpl=story%26u=/080406/ids_photos_en/r3693203289.jpg"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080406/t/r3693203289.jpg" alt=" World-famous Peruvian opera tenor Juan Diego Florez and his wife Julia Trappe leave the cathedral after getting married in Lima, April 5, 2008. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares(PERU) " title=" World-famous Peruvian opera tenor Juan Diego Florez and his wife Julia Trappe leave the cathedral after getting married in Lima, April 5, 2008. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares(PERU) " height="130" width="103" /></a></div> <span style="font-weight: bold;">JUAN DIEGO WEDS</span><br /><ul><li>Hugely popular Opera star Juan Diego Florez weds in Peru (<a href="http://www.mytelus.com/ncp_news/article.en.do?pn=arts&articleID=2899575">Associated Press</a>; <span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><a href="http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iQjL300cQWbe3VovYs_IzQnO6zXA">Canadian Press</a>; Australian <a href="http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=442871">Associated Press</a>) at National Cathedral; <a href="http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news;_ylt=A0WTTkmcz_hHC9MAswbRtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBhNjRqazhxBHNlYwNzZWFyY2g-?p=peru+florez+trappe&c=images&ei=UTF-8&datesort=1&fr=&x=wrt">see photos</a><br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">CARRYING COKE OUT OF PERU</span><br /><ul><li>'Easy money' comes with high cost (<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/484564.html">Miami Herald</a>, Patrick J. McDonnell, re-run of Los Angeles Times) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Scores of Europeans have been put in Peruvian jails on charges of attempting to smuggle cocaine out of Lima's airport</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">DRINKING COKE IN PERU</span><br /><ul><li>Coke’s strategy for emerging markets (<a href="http://www.thetimes.co.za/Careers/Article.aspx?id=740912">The Times</a>, South Africa, Carlos Niezen and Julio Rodriguez) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Here is the three-part strategy that Coke/Lindley developed for serving its mom-and-pop customers in Peru</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">ARTS & CULTURE</span><br /><ul><li>Review: <a href="http://www.pacifikaonline.com/">Pacifika</a> (<a href="http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/sunday/fanfare/ny-fflat5635966apr06,0,2635158.story">Newsday</a>, Ed Morales) "<span style="font-style: italic;">From north of the border comes a new alterna-pop band called Pacifika, whose new album, "Asunción," is just out on Six Degrees Records. Led by Silvana Kane, who was born in Lima, Peru, but was raised in Milwaukee and Vancouver, Pacifika is a minimalist trio that traffics in an ethereal pan-Latin sound." </span>Watch one of their <a href="http://www.pacifikaonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=">videos here</a>.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">MACRO/MICRO ECON</span><br /><ul><li>IDB meeting embroiled in 'green' debate (<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/484891.html">Miami Herald</a>, Jane Bussey and Jim Wyss) "<span style="font-style: italic;">In Peru, the bank has approved a $400 million loan to the Camisea gas project, which cuts through a biodiverse region of the Peruvian Amazon</span>."</li><li>Niche Lenders Feel Safe (<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/484890.html">Miami Herald</a>, Jim Wyss) "<span style="font-style: italic;">During a banking crisis in Peru a few years ago, commercial banks saw defaults hit 12%, even as MiBanco hovered at 4%.</span>"</li><li>Price controls are counterproductive, experts say (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN25386402">Reuters</a>, Lesley Wroughton) <span style="font-style: italic;">story leads with an Alan Garcia comparison 1985/2008 "As Peru again faces rising food prices -- this time along with the rest of the world -- a re-elected Alan Garcia has drawn on past experience and rejected price controls</span>."</li><li><a href="http://www.platinumdiversified.com/investor-relations/announcements.php">ICM</a> plans sale of flagship Peruvian mine (<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/icm-plans-sale-of-flagship-peruvian-mine-805097.html">The Independent</a>, Mark Leftly)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">POLITICS</span><br /><ul><li>Arrests for participating in Bolivarian conference (<a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/746/38597">Green Left</a>, Australia, Raul Connolly) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Following their participation in the Bolivarian Continental Coordinator (CCB) in Quito, Ecuador, seven members of the Peru chapter of the CCB were detained upon returning to Peru on terrorism charges</span>."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">FOOD</span><br /><ul><li>How Would You Like Your Guinea Pig, Sir? (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/apr/06/peru.travelfoodanddrink">The Observer</a>, James Doran) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Can a nation that barbecues small rodents really have anything to offer the serious gastronome? Plenty! In fact, the imaginative cuisine is one of the best reasons to visit Peru</span>."</li><li>Guinea Pig: The Andean delicacy (<a href="http://www.andeancurrents.com/2008/04/guinea-pig-andean-delicacy.html">Andean Currents</a>)</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">VIEW FROM OUTSIDE</span>:<br /><ul><li>A 20-year-old Amazon volunteer (<a href="http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080406/NEWS04/804060612/1006/NEWS">Detroit Free Press</a>)<br /></li></ul>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-13124670209367487532008-04-05T12:46:00.002-05:002008-04-06T09:07:23.423-05:00<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Editor's Note:</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Thank you to all who have sent in notes, tips, and regards.<br />Peruvia will not yet be updated regularly.<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Link suggestions, corrections and questions can be sent to </span><em style="font-style: italic;"></em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>peruvia</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;"> </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>@</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;"> </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="mailto:peruvia@gmail.com"><em>gmail.com</em></a><em style="font-style: italic;">.</em><br /><br /><a href="javascript:void(popitupbig('http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/04/01/PH2008040102003.html',650,850))"><img src="http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/04/01/PH2008040102003_STMB.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Necklace Found</span><br /><ul><li>VIDEO: Oldest Gold Jewelry in Americas (<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080402-necklace-video-ap.html">National Geographic</a>, via Associated Press)</li><li>Necklace is oldest gold artifact found in Americas (<a href="http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/radio/cl-sci-gold5apr05,0,6579887.story">Los Angeles Times</a>, Thomas H. Maugh II) </li><li>From a Burial Pit in Southern Peru, a Golden Oldie (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/science/01obgold.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=peru&st=nyt&oref=slogin">New York Times</a>, Henry Fountain, April 1) "<span style="font-style: italic;">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.</span>"</li><li>'Ancient Gold Necklace Discovered in Peru' (<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102000.html">Associated Press</a>, Randolph E. Schmid)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">MACRO/MICRO ECON</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Macro</span><br /><ul><li>Peruvian Sol Rises Against Dollar (<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/127/story/482270.html">Miami Herald</a>) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Peru's sol reached a decade high against the dollar ... to 2.6925 per USA dollar</span>."</li><li>Fitch's investment grade ranking will boost Peru (<a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/fitchs-investment-grade-ranking-boost/story.aspx?guid=%7B23AA2F0C%2D604F%2D4BF5%2DBA36%2D4BA916C01CD3%7D">MarketWatch</a>, Polya Lesova) "<span style="font-style: italic;">Fitch Ratings upgraded Wednesday Peru's long-term foreign currency issuer default ra</span><span style="font-style: italic;">ting to BBB-, investment grade, from BB+, citing strong improvement in fiscal and external solvency ratios. The outlook is stable</span>."</li><li>Peru welcomes investment grade rating (<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/04ad677c-010d-11dd-a0c5-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1">Financial Times</a>, Naomi Mapstone)<br /></li><li>Bill Gates: Latin America must invest more in education (<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/business/AP/story/483146.html">Associated Press</a>, Laura Wides-Munoz)</li></ul> <span style="font-style: italic;">Micro</span><br /><ul><li>Workers strike at Peru's Doe Run smelter facility (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSMOL56268420080405">Reuters</a>, by Jean Luis Arce, Pav Jordan)</li><li>Hunters Comb Globe for Hot Metal (<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120728123161288949.html?mod=hps_us_inside_today">Wall Street Journal</a>, Robert Guy Matthews) <span style="font-style: italic;">Featured on A1; see accompanying </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120725040766687215.html">slide show</a><span style="font-style: italic;">; copper mining in northern Peru</span><br /></li><li>In Search of Less Toxic Mining (<a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41871">Inter Press Service</a>, Milagros Salazar) "<span style="font-style: italic;">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</span>."</li><li>IDB criticized for some energy projects (<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/484677.html">Miami Herald</a>, Jane Bussey and Jim Wyss)</li><li>Peru's Milpo says Votorantim offer too low (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN0421412420080404?rpc=401&=undefined&sp=true">Reuters</a>, Teresa Cespedes)<br /></li><li>Irradia's Peru LNG plan gets nod <a href="http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/article151853.ece">(Upstream</a>)</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Reuters Latin America Investment Summit In Lima</span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/summits/category/latin-american-investment-07/">Reuters blog</a> of Latin America Investment Summit</li><li>Buenaventura eyes record gold and silver production (<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/summits/2008/04/03/peru-miner-eyes-record-gold-and-silver-production/">Reuters blog</a>, Lucas Bergman)</li><li>President Garcia with Reuters reporters Marco Aquino and Terry Wade (<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080404/ids_photos_wl/r3738760383.jpg/">Reuters</a>, Mariana Bazo)<br /></li><li>See <a href="http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news;_ylt=A0WTTkpw0_hHqyUBhRrRtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBhNjRqazhxBHNlYwNzZWFyY2g-?p=%22Latin+America+Investment+Summit%22&c=images&ei=UTF-8&datesort=1&fr=&x=wrt">photos of summit</a><br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">FOOD</span>:<br /><ul><li>Peruvian berry offers natural pigments for yoghurt: study (<a href="http://www.foodnavigator.com/news/ng.asp?id=84452">Food Navigator</a>, Stephen Daniells) see also <a href="http://class.fst.ohio-state.edu/fst85001/sq2007/Spring%20Colloquium%202007a_files/Page341.htm">Ohio State University abstract</a></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">ARTS & LEISURE</span><br /><ul><li>Peruvian 3-D animated film "<a href="http://www.hffny.com/2008/DRAGONES.php">Dragons: Destiny of Fire</a>," at Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 12 (<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/2008/04/06/2008-04-06_havana_film_festival_new_york_reels_in_i.html">New York Daily News</a>) (<a href="http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?r=1&ean=735978405112">Available on DVD</a> in USA on April 8)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">OTHER</span><br /><ul><li>Man, 101, Awarded American Citizenship (<a href="http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2008/04/05/man_101_awarded_american_citizenship/4371/">United Press International</a>) "Vicento Osorio Rios -- the first centenarian to become a U.S. citizen in Arizona -- came to the United States in 1982 from Peru."</li></ul><span style="font-style: italic;">Earlier Stories</span>:<br /><ul><li>'U.S. sees Americas-wide free trade with Latam deals' (<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040101448.html">Reuters</a>, Missy Ryan, April 2)<br /></li><li>'Buckner International and Ministry of Women and Social Work Create First Foster Families.' (<a href="http://www.baptiststandard.com/postnuke/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=7607">Baptist Standard</a>, Jenny Pope, March 31)</li><li>More Hispanics retiring to native homelands (<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/476499.html">Miami Herald</a>, Juan Carlos Chavez, March 31)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-style: italic;"></span>CULTURE:<br /><ul><li>Dennis Hopper's 'The Last Movie' Showing (<a href="http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/cl-etw-cinevegasside3apr03,0,6934306.story">Los Angeles Times</a>, April 3) "The story concerns an American film crew that goes to the far reaches of Peru to shoot a western."</li><li>Eva Ayllón at Disney Hall (<a href="http://www.calendarlive.com/music/pop/cl-et-ayllon10mar10,0,7373338.story">Los Angeles Times</a>, Agustin Gurza, March 10)<br /></li></ul>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-82466003344988146352008-04-03T06:03:00.001-05:002008-04-06T23:45:30.852-05:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">THE OLYMPICS</span><br /><ul><li>Peru to send at least 12 athletes to Beijing Olympic Games (<a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/03/content_7909617.htm">Xinhua</a>) "At least 12 athletes will represent Peru in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in August, Peruvian Olympic Committee (COP) spokesman stated on Wednesday."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">MACRO/MICRO ECON</span><br /><ul><li>Strike Resources may sell Peruvian assets (<a href="http://money.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=439853">NineMSN</a>, April 1)</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">VANDALS IN CUZCO</span><br /><ul><li>Graffiti scribbled on ruins of ancient ceremonial site in Peru (<a href="http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/553408.html">Associated</a> <a href="http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/nationworld/story/220000.html">Press</a>, March 31)</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">PERUVIAN IN CYPRUS</span><br /><ul><li>Peruvian appointed as head of UN peacekeeping troops in Cyprus (<a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/29/content_7878947.htm">Xinhua</a>) "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."<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">AMAZON/ANDEAN WORKSHOP</span><br /><ul><li>ABC Announces 2008 Peruvian Ethnobotany Trip (<a href="http://www.npicenter.com/anm/templates/newsATemp.aspx?articleid=20905&zoneid=2">ABC press release</a>) 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."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">SPORTS</span><br /><ul><li>From Peruvian Obscurity to a Major Derby Prep (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/sports/othersports/29racing.html?_r=1&ex=1364443200&en=0739be9c1bc58ed9&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=login">New York Times</a>, 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."</li></ul>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-88434119725817446552008-04-02T07:04:00.000-05:002008-04-09T05:05:41.298-05:00FLOODS IN NORTHERN PERU<br /><br /><object style="width: 100%;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://uk.reuters.com/resources/flash/includevideo.swf?edition=UK&videoId=79402" height="320" width="344"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="movie" value="http://uk.reuters.com/resources/flash/includevideo.swf?edition=UK&videoId=79402"><embed src="http://uk.reuters.com/resources/flash/includevideo.swf?edition=UK&videoId=79402" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="320" width="344"></embed></object>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-3550092236006846692008-03-31T10:57:00.001-05:002008-04-06T23:46:00.854-05:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">NECKLACE FOUND</span><br /><ul><li>Archaeologists Find 4,000-Year-Old Gold Necklace in South Peru (<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a8A_Bil2uZFA&refer=muse">Bloomberg</a>, Ryan Flinn)</li><li> UA Archaeologist Finds Oldest Known Gold Artifacts in the Americas (<a href="http://uanews.org/node/19071">University of Arizona press release</a>, Jeff Harrison) re: Anthropology Professor <a href="http://anthro.web.arizona.edu/people/display_fac_details.php?id=19">Mark Aldenderfer</a><br /></li><li>Four-thousand-year-old gold artifacts from the Lake Titicaca basin, southern Peru (<a href="http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0710937105v1">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</a>) " Artifacts of cold-hammered native gold have been discovered<sup> </sup>in a secure and undisturbed Terminal Archaic burial context<sup> </sup>at Jiskairumoko, a multicomponent Late Archaic–Early Formative<sup> </sup>period site in the southwestern Lake Titicaca basin, Peru."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">MACRO/MICRO ECON</span><br /><ul><li>Peruvian retailer plans to top Cencosud (<a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/consumerproducts-SP/idUKN3143748120080331?feedType=RSS&feedName=consumerproducts-SP">Reuters</a>, 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'."</li><li>More updates from <a href="http://www.reuters.com/summit/LatinAmericanInvestment08?pid=500">Reuters Latin American Investment Summit</a><br /></li></ul>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-83683921789724840832008-03-28T11:16:00.003-05:002008-04-06T23:46:56.110-05:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">THE OLYMPICS</span><br /><ul><li>Peruvian president backs Beijing Olympic Games (<a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/28/content_7876414.htm">Xinhua</a>) "<span id="Zoom">Peruvian President Alan Garcia said Thursday that he supports the Beijing Olympic Games and believes China will overcome its difficulties to hold a successful event."</span></li></ul><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">DINOSAUR BONES?</span><br /><img src="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/images/080328-dinosaur-bus_big.jpg" alt="jawbone in Peru picture" border="0" height="317" width="461" /><br /><ul><li>Mystery Bone Found on Peruvian Bus (<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080328-dinosaur-bus.html">National Geographic</a>, <span style="font-style: italic;">via Reuters</span>, Victoria Jaggard) "A suspicious package found on a bus in Peru turned out to contain a mysterious and massive animal jawbone, officials announced on Tuesday. Police who investigated the bus's cargo hold said they noticed the package because it had no identifying marks and was oddly heavy. Pablo de la Vera Cruz, an archaeologist at the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, initially identified the 19-pound (8.6-kilogram) jawbone via police photos as perhaps belonging to a <i>Triceratops,</i> according to Reuters.</li></ul><br />But Michael J. Ryan, head of vertebrate paleontology at the <a href="http://www.cmnh.org/site/researchandcollections_VertebratePaleontology.aspx">Cleveland Museum of Natural History</a>, told National Geographic News that the bone is definitely not from a dinosaur. "It's a lower jawbone, and it has two big molars in the back and that's it. That's definitely a mammalian trait." he said after seeing the above photo of the find taken at a Tuesday press conference in Arequipa. "Also, the jaws are fused, left and right, and the massive shape and articulation mean it's definitely a mammal," he continued. Ryan thinks the remains most likely belonged to a proboscidean, or elephant relative.<br /><br />"I can't even tell if it's fossil or modern," based on the photograph, Ryan added. But, he said, "there's no way it's a <i>Triceratops.</i>"Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-60100075137443575042008-03-27T07:29:00.000-05:002008-04-06T23:31:24.536-05:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">ENVIRONMENT</span><br /><ul><li>British reality TV crew accused as flu kills four in isolated Peruvian tribe (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/mar/27/conservation.realitytv?gusrc=rss&feed=media">The Guardian</a>, UK, John Vidal) "A British reality TV company has been accused of starting a flu epidemic that left four people from a tribe of isolated Peruvian Indians dead and others seriously ill. The regional Indian rights organisation Fenama, government officials and a US anthropologist working in the region said in statements seen by the Guardian that a two-person crew working for London-based Cicada Films had visited groups of isolated Indian communities despite being warned not to. Fenama said the film team travelled far upriver and provoked an epidemic. It accused them of threatening the lives of Indians and called for Cicada Films to be barred from entering the area again."</li></ul>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-87847790435627786002008-03-26T06:31:00.000-05:002008-04-06T23:36:48.987-05:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">FUJI FILES</span><br /><ul><li>Doctors: Health of ex-Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori suffering from murder trial (<a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/26/america/LA-GEN-Peru-Fujimori-Trial.php">Associated Press</a>) "Doctors say ex-Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has swelling in his legs and feet from sitting for long hours during his murder and kidnapping trial."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">ENVIRONMENT</span><br /><ul><li>Peruvian Tribe Takes on Oil Giant (<a href="http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1310837/peruvian_tribe_takes_on_oil_giant/index.html">Red Orbit</a>) "The Achuar tribe, inhabitants of the Amazon Rainforest of north-eastern Peru for thousands of years, alleges that Occidental Petroleum has contaminated their territory by damaging their land and making their people sick, some even to the point of death."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">MACRO/MICRO ECO</span>N<br /><ul><li>Cimpor's Peruvian unit to build new plant in 2008 (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSL2552287620080325?rpc=401&">Reuters</a>, Henrique Almeida) "Peruvian subsidiary Cementos Otorongo will start building a new cement factory in 2008 with a production capacity of 650,000 tonnes of cement per year, the company said."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">NORTH KOREAN RELATIONS</span><br /><ul><li>Korean People's Struggle Supported by Peruvian Party Leader (<a href="http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2008/200803/news03/26.htm#19">North Korean Central News Agency</a>) "Victor Oliva Miguel, general secretary of the Revolutionary Socialist Party of Peru, met the delegation of the Workers' Party of Korea led by Vice Department Director of its Central Committee Kim Thae Jong in Lima on March 22 and had a talk with him."<br /></li></ul>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790437.post-24028840658802634722008-03-24T08:36:00.000-05:002008-04-06T23:44:34.912-05:00413 kg of cocaine seized in Peruvian Amazon<span style="font-weight: bold;">ENVIRONMENT</span><br /><ul><li>Peruvian Indians take on oil giant in dispute over pollution (<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7306639.stm">BBC</a>, Dan Collyns) "The Achuar filed a class action lawsuit against oil giant Occidental Petroleum."</li><li>Peru Tribe Battles Oil Gian (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7310000/newsid_7312400?redirect=7312480.stm&news=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&bbram=1&asb=1">BBC Video</a>, Dan Collyns)<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">COKE IN IQUITOS</span><br /><ul><li>413 kg of cocaine seized in Peruvian Amazon (<a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/24/content_7847814.htm">Xinhua</a>) "<span id="Zoom">eru's National Drugs Control Directorate seized 413 kg of cocaine Sunday on a small boat with an outboard motor in the Peruvian Amazon, officials said. </span><span id="Zoom">The seizure took place on the Amazon River near the city of Iquitos; the boat was bound for the Colombian city of Leticia."</span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">TRAGEDY IN CUZCO</span><br /><ul><li>Inca trek death riddle: Banker's body found in Peruvian river after party at campsite (<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=543869&in_page_id=1811&ito=newsnow">Daily Mail</a>, UK, Charlotte Gill and Peter Upton) " A British banker is believed to have been murdered while on a trekking holiday in Peru. Colin Murphy was first thought to have drowned in a river on the Inca Trail in the early hours of New Year's Day. But a post-mortem examination has revealed that the 44-year-old divorcee was killed by a fierce blow to the base of his skull and that his body was dumped in the water two hours after he died."</li></ul>Eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122071568638606275noreply@blogger.com