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Made Popular Nov 10 2009
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A small grove of huarango, the storied Peruvian tree that can live over a millennium, rests like a mirage amid the sand dunes on this city’s edge. The tree has provided the inhabitants of this desert with food and timber since before the Nazca...

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Santiago Manuin is lucky to be alive. On June 5, the Awajun Indian leader was hit by at least four bullets when police broke up a protest by Indians over government...
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Daniel, Lima
Nine years ago, a discovery was made about a place called Caral in northern Peru that transformed the understanding of human history in the Americas. To get to Caral...
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Chad, Tempe
First, the police fire tear gas, then rubber bullets. As protesters flee, they move on to live rounds. One man, wearing only a pair of shorts, stops to raise his hands...
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Yoann, Minneapolis
Faced with a simmering crisis over dozens of deaths in the quelling of indigenous protests last week, Peru’s Congress this week suspended the decrees that had set off...
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Kevin, Mexico City
The leader of Peru’s Amazon Indians will be flown to exile in Nicaragua after seeking asylum following violent demonstrations that killed scores of police and...
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Marcus Brooks, des moines
The South American country of Peru is in a state of emergency. For four days, National Police forces have engaged Amazonian Indians in the peasant town of Bagua Grande....
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Wyclif, Kampala
President Alan García struggled over the weekend to defuse a protest by Amazon indigenous groups that left more than 50 police and Indians dead. The demonstrations...
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Craig, Pretoria
Hundreds of indigenous protesters were holding 38 police hostage early on Saturday in Peru’s Amazon jungle after fights between tribes and police killed up to 33...
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Zuliya, Washington
“Peru, a mining country” is a government slogan which can be seen emblazoned on official buildings and heard repeatedly on state media broadcasts. It is...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Do you live in Europe? Are finances a bit tight? Have you cut back on Starbucks, eating out, exspensive manicures, and cancelled your satellite TV? Have you, like many...
made popular Feb 27 2009
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Apr 30 2009 by AP0 Comments

Ashaninka and Yines Indians are blocking an airport in the central Peruvian jungle town of Atalaya as well as two stations on a northern oil pipeline to protest laws that they say threaten their ancestral land and resources.

 
 
Apr 28 2009 by AP0 Comments

Venezuela has recalled its ambassador in Lima to protest Peru’s decision to grant political asylum to a prominent opponent of President Hugo Chavez.

 
 
Apr 27 2009 by AP0 Comments

Peru is granting asylum to a Venezuelan opposition leader who says he is a victim of political persecution by President Hugo Chavez’s government.

 
 
Apr 24 2009 by AP0 Comments

Interpol has issued a notice seeking the arrest of a leading opponent of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who has requested political asylum in Peru, a Venezuelan police chief said Thursday.

 
 
Apr 24 2009 by AP0 Comments

Venezuela’s government urged Peruvian authorities on Thursday to arrest a leading opponent of President Hugo Chavez who is seeking political asylum in Lima.

 
 
Apr 22 2009 by AP0 Comments

A Venezuelan court has ordered the arrest of a key opponent of President Hugo Chavez who has fled to Peru and is seeking political asylum, prosecutors in Caracas said Wednesday.

 
 
Apr 22 2009 by AP0 Comments

A Venezuelan court has ordered the arrest of a key opponent of Venezuelan President Hugo who has fled to Peru seeking political asylum, prosecutors said Wednesday.

 
 
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Venezuelan prosecutors say a court has asked Interpol to detain a leading opponent of President Hugo Chavez who is seeking political asylum in Peru.

 
 
Apr 21 2009 by AP0 Comments

A Venezuelan opposition leader who says he is a victim of political persecution by President Hugo Chavez’s government has requested political asylum in Peru, one of his lawyers said Tuesday.

 
 
Apr 21 2009 by AP0 Comments

A Peruvian lawyer says Venezuelan opposition leader Manuel Rosales has requested political asylum in Peru.

 
 
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