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Peru's President Tells Trump He Prefers 'Bridges to Walls'
The first Latin American president to visit Donald Trump at the White House told the U.S. leader Friday he prefers "bridges to walls," sending him a gentle rebuke of his controversial proposal to build a wall along the border with Mexico. Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a U.S.-educated former Wall Street banker, has emerged as an unlikely leader in Latin America, taking a strong stand against Trump's "America First" agenda while many in the region remain silent.
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A dozen police killed in Peru after bus falls off a cliff
At least 12 police officers were killed and a dozen were wounded in a remote Andean region in Peru when their bus skidded off an unpaved road and tumbled down a cliff, the government said on Tuesday. The officers were headed to the highland province of Antabamba to provide security for talks between government officials and residents who have staged protests to demand a paved highway in the region.
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The Contestant
The disappearance of Ruth Thalía Sayas Sánchez. By Daniel Alarcón.
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The ‘Blue’ for Blue Jeans was First made 6,200 Years Ago in Peru
It's the oldest-ever example of indigo blue fabric.
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Peru Quake Kills at Least Nine in Southern Arequipa
Peruvian officials say at least nine people, including an American tourist, have been killed in a 5.4-magnitude earthquake in the Arequipa region.
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Tens of Thousands March in Peru Against Gender Violence
More than 50,000 people marched in Peru's capital and eight other cities on Saturday to protest violence against woman and what they say is the indifference of the judicial system. Officials said the size of the protest against gender violence was unprecedented in Peru and followed several recent high-profile cases in which male perpetrators were given what women's groups said were too-lenient sentences. The march in Lima ended at the palace of justice.
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An Isolated Tribe Emerges from the Rain Forest
Before Nicolás (Shaco) Flores was killed, deep in the Peruvian rain forest, he had spent decades reaching out to the mysterious people called the Mashco Piro. Flores lived in the Madre de Dios region—a vast jungle surrounded by an even vaster wilderness, frequented mostly by illegal loggers, miners, narco-traffickers, and a few adventurers. For more than a hundred years, the Mashco had lived in almost complete isolation; there were rare sightings, but they were often indistinguishable from backwoods folklore.
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Quinoa isn't a threat to food security. It's improving Peruvian farmers' lives
Worldwide appetite for this super grain was once thought to be undermining food security in the Andes, but a new report suggests the opposite is true
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Huge cacao plantation in Peru illegally developed on forest-zoned land
A zoning evaluation released by the Peruvian government finds the land on which United Cacao’s plantation is sited could not have been legally developed for agriculture.
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Oasis of Huacachina
The Oasis of Huacachina surrounded by huge sand dunes in the Southwest of Peru.
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Discovery of 4,500-year-old female mummy sheds light on ancient Peru
Archaeologists say the mummified remains, found near one of the oldest cities in the Americas, probably belong to a noblewoman aged 40 to 50. By Alan Yuhas. (Apr. 23)
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The African palm oil frontier expands deeper into the Peruvian Amazon, impacting indigenous communities’ territories
Peru may be playing a more visible role in climate negotiations, especially related to conservation of its tropical forests. But despite this, deforestation has been increasing over the past 15 years, much of it due to expanded cultivation of cash crops like African palm oil.
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Peruvian Oil Spill Prompts Water Emergency For Thousands
Oil has seeped into multiple rivers, including the principal source of the Amazon River.
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Mysterious 4-Mile Long River in Peru is so Hot it Actually Boils
Now confirmed, the legendary boiling river deep in the Amazon was long considered an impossibility due to its distance from active volcanoes.
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Gold at any cost: Illegal mining in Peru
For more than 50 million years, the Amazon rainforest has been a cradle of life. Its pristine forests, however, are increasingly under threat because of illegal gold mining. TechKnow's Phil Torres heads to La Pampa, the buffer zone of Tambopata National Reserve, to witness how illegal mining is turning forests into toxic wastelands. There, more than 100,000 acres of rainforest have been cleared.
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The Mochileros
High stakes in the high Andes - the young backpackers risking their lives in cocaine valley. By Linda Pressly.(Nov. 24)
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High in the Andes, A Mine Eats a 400-Year-Old City
For a woman intent on moving an entire city, fifty-six-year old Congresswoman Gloria Ramos Prudencio, barely five feet tall, looks unassuming. Her city is Cerro de Pasco, population 70,000. Perched on the treeless Peruvian altiplano at 14,200 feet, it’s one of the highest cities on the planet. “As a girl, walking past Bellavista, where the Americans lived, I would pester my mother, ‘Why do the gringos get the nice houses?’ ” the soft-spoken Ramos recalls.
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Special Series - Snow of the Andes: Peru's Cocaine
For over 4 decades Peru has fought the war on drugs with backing from the US. Ten of thousands of coca plants and hundres of tonnes of cocaine have been destroyed. Despite all these efforts, United Nations now claims Peru is the most important producer of cocaine in the world; with this has come levels of corruption and violence that threatens the very fabric of the country.
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Peru Hit by Magnitude 7.5 Earthquake
A major quake of magnitude 7.5 struck the Peruvian-Brazilian border in the Amazon basin on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
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Peru Protects Vast 'Yellowstone of the Amazon'
The 3.3 million-acre park, larger than Yellowstone and Yosemite combined, encompasses key forest habitats.
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