Fifty years ago, a disallowed goal during a match between Peru and Argentina led to tragedy at the Estadio Nacional in Lima Lima, May 25 The Peruvian Government today decreed a seven-day period of national mourning for yesterday's football match tragedy in which 263 men, women, and children were killed, and announced it would pay all funeral expenses. Hospital authorities are still unable to give...
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A ban on illegal gold mining in Peru took effect on 19 April. Madre de Dios state has an estimated 40,000 illegal miners, most of whom are poor migrants from the Andean highland, and their work accounts for about 20% of Peru's gold exports. However, their work has also ravaged forests and poisoned rivers in a biodiverse region. Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd documents the frantic work of...
Developing countries are losing out on vital revenues, writes Oxfam's Claire Godfrey . It's time to reform international tax Too often tax is treated as a dirty word by business. It's not, or at least it shouldn't be. In fact, tax should be celebrated. The business case for tax is that revenue can be invested in public services and infrastructure both of which are necessary for a healthy, well-educated...
The man made famous for his portraits of supermodels discusses why he has been drawn back to his hometown Lima He has taken celebrated photographs of the most beautiful women in the world and his name is synonymous with the glamorous jet-set world of the fashion shoot. Now Mario Testino has his lens focused on ambitions closer to home. He was born and grew up in the Peruvian capital, Lima, but left...
Carlos Sandi of the Shuar tribe calls on Peruvian government to clean up site contaminated by crude Indigenous protesters have occupied Peru's biggest oilfield in the Amazon rainforest near Ecuador to demand the cleanup of decades of contamination from spilled crude. The field's operator, PlusPetrol of Argentina, says the protest has forced it to cut back production by more than half of the 17,000...
Singer Shakira joins presidents of Colombia and Mexico, as well as Bill Clinton, in paying tribute to Nobel prize-winner The death of Latin American literary giant Gabriel García Márquez prompted immediate reaction from across the continent and beyond, almost as soon as the first rumours hit the internet early on Thursday afternoon. Politicians weighed in quickly with Juan Manuel Santos,...
A six-week expedition starting in July will try to find Paititi in the Megantoni National Sanctuary in south-east Peru A French writer and adventurer plans to explore one of the most remote parts of the Peruvian Amazon in search of a "lost" or "secret city" that may have been built by the Incas, but there are fears that the expedition could endanger the health of isolated tribes...
Earthquake triggers tsunami warning for Chilean coastline Authorities have called for 'preventative evacuation' Coasts of other South American countries may also be at risk 1.46pm AEST There were some earlier reports that had the magnitude of the quake at 8.0, but the official measurement by the United States Geological Survey lists a magnitude of 8.2. 1.36pm AEST Our correspondent Jonathan Franklin...
World high-diving champion Orlando Duque enlists the help of local people as he prepares to jump 35 metres from a tree directly into the Amazon ...
After buying a slice of Amazonian rainforest to save it, wildlife presenter Charlie Hamilton James was dismayed to find a haven for illegal loggers and cocaine farmers ...
When wildlife presenter Charlie Hamilton James was asked to help save a tiny slice of the Amazon rainforest, he jumped at the chance. But things didn't go quite as planned… My mate Rob is a conservationist. Two years ago, he called me from Peru with a proposition. "Do you want to buy some Amazonian rainforest?" he asked. He explained that the head of Manú National Park , an area of the Peruvian Amazon,...
Women sterilised in the late 1990s under a Peruvian government scheme show no signs of relenting in their long fight for justice Guillermina Huaman, 42, struggles to find the words in Spanish to express her grief and rage. It is in her mother tongue, Quechua, a language widely spoken in Peru's southern highlands, that she explains how public healthcare medics terminated her pregnancy at three months...
Our literary tour of Peru embraces Manuel Odría's dictactorship, murder in Ayacucho, and the legacy of Pizarro's conquistadors Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa Vargas Llosa's ambitious novel is a portrait of power and politics in Peru under the dictatorship of General Manuel Odría in the 1950s. Santiago Zavala, a young journalist, bumps into Ambrosio Pardo, his wealthy father's...
Guards ordered to increase surveillance at Peruvian tourist site after a spate of stripping It has survived five centuries of conquest, earthquakes, landslides and mass tourism. But Peruvian authorities fear that Machu Picchu is facing a new threat: streakers. Guards at the vast Inca citadel have been ordered to step up surveillance after a spate of stripping. Late last year, two male antipodean travellers...
Valentine's Day is often maligned or grudgingly celebrated but some couples around the world have found unorthodox methods to mark the day ...
s plans to explore for gas in Manu national park buffer zone Peru's ministry of culture (Mincu) has given its approval for the expansion of the country's biggest gas project in a reserve for indigenous people and the buffer zone of the Manu national park. The expansion will involve drilling 18 wells, conducting seismic tests across hundreds of square kms, and building a 6.5 mile flowline in the supposedly...
s capital Lima 22 years ago. Already serving a life sentence, only Guzmán's grey hair and hunched figure was visible through the bullet-proof glass separating the gallery from the courtroom in the high-security naval base prison in Lima's port of Callao, where he is held. Once the most feared man in Peru, Presidente Gonzalo, as he was known to his fanatical followers, unleashed a bloody internecine...
s deputy-co-ordinator. The models produced by Peru's National Meteorology and Hydrology Service (Senamhi) show that these trends are going to accelerate in the coming decades. The eastern part of the Cusco region could see a 15% to 30% drop in rainfall by 2030, one of the most severe forecast for the whole country. Bernarbe, 68, poses proudly with his dog in front of the stone dyke he built with his...
Mongabay.com: Dead-leaf toad uses poison to protect itself and lives in the Peruvian Andes ...