Huánuco residents shut down city, urge Raura Mine to comply with its...
Thousands of Huánuco residents took to the streets Wednesday, demanding that the region’s Raura Mine get back on track with its environmental cleanup plan, which it has postponed since 2002. “We’re...
View ArticleTourist guides continue protests at Historical Sanctuary of Machu Picchu
Dozens of professional tourist guides organized a peaceful demonstration on Wednesday in the Historical Sanctuary of Machu Picchu – Peru’s top tourist attraction – to protest a congressional bill...
View ArticlePeruvian University of Applied Science and Peruvian singer Gian Marco...
Peru’s University of Applied Science, or UPC, and Peruvian singer-songwriter Gian Marco inaugurated a professional musical academy Wednesday in the country’s capital city, Lima. “Musical training must...
View ArticleLake Titicaca strangled by pollution: more than 12 million cubic meters of...
The uncontrolled dumping of sewage waste and tailings produced by more than 30,000 small-scale miners are causing widespread environmental damage in Lake Titicaca, the largest lake in South America and...
View ArticleAngels of Dance: taking children from the streets to the stage
By Annie Thériault —– The inspiration for a life-changing project came at a red light, four years ago. When the Municipal Ballet’s prima ballerina, Vania Masías, drove to a stop at the traffic light-...
View ArticleFamed “BODIES… The Exhibition” in Lima through September
The breathtaking and fascinating “BODIES…The Exhibition” – a phenomenal exhibit of the amazing and complex machine we call the human body – will be open at Lima’s Plaza Camacho until September 5. The...
View ArticleClimate change: intense cold front has killed 20,000 alpaca in Puno so far...
Climate change continues to wreck havoc in Peru’s southern Altiplano, where the arrival of freezing temperatures since March — almost three months earlier than usual — have killed at least 20,000...
View ArticlePeru’s Public Investments up 20 Percent So Far This Year
Peru’s public-sector investments have increased 20 percent so far this year, to reach almost 30 billion soles ($10.8 billion), Economy and Finance Minister Luis Miguel Castilla said. The investments...
View ArticleOmbudsman Calls for Agency to Indentify Disappeared during Terrorism Years
Peru’s ombudsman has called for the government to create an agency responsible for finding those who were reported missing during the country’s internal conflict in the 1980s and 1990s, state news...
View ArticleYungay 1970-2009: remembering the tragedy of The Earthquake
By Annie Thériault —- Thirty-nine years ago this Sunday, on May 31, 1970, an undersea earthquake off the coast of Casma and Chimbote, north of Lima, triggered one of the most cataclysmic avalanches in...
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