s like trying to fill a swimming pool with a syringe. Or, in a different mood, that writing a novel is like trying to hold a vast and intricate maths equation in your head that seeks to represent reality and through which you are trying to lead people without them ever getting wind that said equation is, in fact, impossible to solve or that, actually, it might not represent...
Archaeologists uncover at least 35 tombs in Lambayeque, Peru, on Wednesday ...
lives at risk Two key Peruvian state institutions are blocking plans to establish a reserve for indigenous people living in "voluntary isolation" (IPVI) between the Napo and Tigre rivers in the Amazon rainforest. Opposition to the proposal was condemned by national indigenous organisation AIDESEP after a meeting, held in December, of a cross-sector government commission set up to create such reserves....
s biggest ever energy development – following a report by the vice-ministry of inter-culturality (VMI) last week. Pluspetrol's plans include drilling 18 wells and conducting seismic tests in an "intangible" reserve for indigenous peoples living in "voluntary isolation" and "initial contact" which is also part of the buffer zone for the Manu national park , where Unesco says the biological diversity...
Diviners in Peru perform a soothsaying ceremony according to traditional Peruvian rites at Agua Dulce Beach in Lima, making political predictions for 2014 ...
UN special rapporteur on indigenous rights says environmental problems created by oil companies have hit tribes in Peruvian Amazon rainforest Dan Collyns ...
Michaela McCollum Connolly and Melissa Reid have been sentenced to six years and eight months in jail on drug trafficking charges ...
ve been waiting four months already and the delays and changes are annoying. "...
Melissa Reid and Michaela McCollum Connolly leave jail in Lima, Peru, to hear their sentences for drug trafficking in court ...
s police commissioner. "Organised crime, and its corrupting influence, is at work in every single country in Latin America." Just look at the news. In the autumn, police in Ecuador seized three tonnes of cocaine, ready to cross the Pacific. Soon after, half a tonne was intercepted in a tanker truck on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. On the heels of that discovery, 1.5 tonnes was intercepted in the...
s (UNDP) latest human development country report . The reversal of the rainforest's usual role as a carbon sink is a direct result of the droughts in the western Amazon in 2005 and 2010 – and a stark reminder, say scientists, that this mega-biodiverse country is highly vulnerable to climate change. Peru, which has four of the five geographical areas most vulnerable to climate change – ranging from...
s Council on Ethics wants to blacklist Repsol, but the Finance Ministry won't listen Norway's Ministry of Finance is being urged to withdraw its investments from oil and gas company Repsol because of its operations in a region in the Peruvian Amazon inhabited by indigenous people who have no direct contact with outsiders, according to Norway's largest commercial TV channel. The recommendation was made...
strike to hear if they will avoid trial and be freed early An Irish woman and her Scottish friend found guilty of drug smuggling in Peru will not now face a full trial and may have their jail sentences reduced, it emerged on Monday. Michaella McCollum Connolly, from Dungannon, County Tyrone, and Melissa Reid, from Lenzie, near Glasgow, both 20, both admitted trying to smuggle cocaine worth...
lives are at risk Peru's state agency promoting oil and gas operations has announced that by the end of this month oil will be produced from new deposits in a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon near the border with Ecuador. The announcement was made in a press release by Perupetro stating that 'the date to start commercial extraction is scheduled for 30 November this year', and that the 'proven reserves...
unacceptable gaps' in access to work and education across Latin America and Caribbean Indigenous women in Latin America continue to face great gaps in access to higher education, health services and employment, although there have been significant educational advances, according to a report by the UN's Economic Commission f or Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac). The findings were published this...
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s south-eastern Amazon region increased by 400% from 1999 to 2012, according to researchers using state-of-the-art mapping technology. Using airborne mapping and high-satellite monitoring, researchers led by the Carnegie Institution for Science also showed that the rate of forest loss in Madre de Dios has tripled since the 2008 global economic crisis, when the international price of gold began to rise...
Police have clashed with anti-bullfighting protesters after hundreds took to the streets of Lima in Peru on the opening day of the sport's season ...
anomalous aerial phenomena' Peru's air force is reopening an office responsible for investigating UFOs due to "increased sightings of anomalous aerial phenomena" in the country's skies. The Department of Investigation of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (DIFAA), first created in 2001, is being revived after lying formant for five years because more UFO sightings have been reported to the media, said Colonel...