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Breath of fresh air: autos in Peruvian capital making switch to natural gas | Peruvian Times
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
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Breath of fresh air: autos in Peruvian capital making switch to natural gas | Peruvian Times
Thirty-four thousand vehicles in Peru’s capital, Lima, have converted their engines to natural gas and the Peruvian Natural Gas Vehicle Association predicts that 30,000 more will make the switch by the end of the year.
Peru’s Fujimori has tongue cancer
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
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Peru’s Fujimori has tongue cancer: daughter
Peru’s Fujimori has tongue cancer: daughter
Reuters
Published: Friday, June 06, 2008LIMA - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori’s daughter said Friday that a lesion removed from her father’s tongue was “cancerous.”
Peru’s constitutional crisis
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
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Congressional commission deems Garcia anti-protest and deadly force decree unconstitutional | Peruvian Times
Congress’ Constitutional Oversight Commission has voted to overturn a decree by President Alan Garcia that critics say was designed to snuff out political dissent by, among other things, granting soldiers and police freedom to use their firepower during protests without fear of prosecution for injuring or killing civilians.
Peru to sign free trade agreements with Canada and Singapore, looks to Asia for more free markets
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
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Peru to sign free trade agreements with Canada and Singapore, looks to Asia for more free markets | Peruvian Times
Peru to sign free trade agreements with Canada and Singapore, looks to Asia for more free markets
UNESCO official reportedly backs Peru’s demand for Yale to return Machu Picchu relics | Peruvian Times
Monday, May 5th, 2008
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The top representative of UNESCO in Lima said Sunday that Peru was well within its rights to demand Yale University return ten of thousands of artifacts and remains taken on loan nearly a century ago from the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, official state news agency Andina reported.
“The logical thing is for Peruvians to have access to the pieces, to know them,” Katherine Müller-Marin was quoted saying, adding that UNESCO has as one of its principles restoring archaeological treasures to their rightful owners. “The repatriation of archaeological pieces is a line of work that is developed to achieve the restoration of the pieces to their own sites of origin.”
Peru: President Garcia orders 48-hour shutdown of state-run Materials Bank
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
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Wild West anyone?
President Garcia orders 48-hour shutdown of state-run Materials Bank amid corruption allegations | Peruvian Times
President Alan Garcia ordered a 48-shutdown Monday of the state-run Materials Bank and fired its entire board of directors after the Sunday night TV news magazine Cuarto Poder revealed that top executives had been awarding themselves credits for subsidized housing meant for Peru’s poor.
Garcia describes bright future for Peruvians with investment grade rating
Friday, April 4th, 2008
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I’m glad that at least in Peru it is safe to invest? That was a joke, sort of.
Text of speech and full story here: | Peruvian Times
Garcia describes bright future for Peruvians with investment grade ratingPresident Alan Garcia enthusiastically told Peruvians on Thursday that the nation’s promotion in its foreign currency debt to investment grade by Fitch Ratings will soon translate to more jobs, better salaries and lower interest rates. “What is the concrete effect of this rating? That all the world’s banks, the financial institutions, the pension funds of the United States and of Europe know that investment in Peru is a safe investment, a stable investment in a solid economy,” Garcia said during a news conference at the Government Palace.
Ex-President Fujimori on trial in Peru
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
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Ex-President Fujimori resorts to sandals to ease numbness during trial | Peruvian Times
Ex-President Alberto Fujimori showed up to court in suit, tie and cheap sandals Monday to hear continuing testimony in his trial for allegedly sanctioning the Colina group paramilitary death squad.
Prehistoric fossil found on bus during routine police check
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
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This is a cool site that has a Spanish language audio track that opens up when you go to their home page. From our “Try Check Out” (TCO) department.
Prehistoric fossil found on bus during routine police check | Peruvian Times
Authorities in Peru’s hinterlands are accustomed to seizing all sorts of contraband stowed aboard the never-ending caravan of passenger buses that rumble across the Andes toward the capital, Lima:
Pre-Columbian artifacts sacked from ancient ruins. Religious relics and paintings torn from the walls of colonial era churches. Tons of Cocaine.
But in Peru’s Arequipa Department police were shocked this week to discover the fossilized jaw bone of a prehistoric animal on Tuesday that may have come from a triceratops some 70 million years ago.. […]
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