LIMA, Jun 2, 2011 (IPS) - Attacks, fear and disinformation are widespread in news coverage of Peru's election campaign, with the leading media outlets taking the side of rightwing Keiko Fujimori in her contest against Ollanta Humala for the presidency.
A study of the media by the Calandria Association of... » read this article
JUANJUÍ, Peru, Apr 16, 2011 (Tierramérica) - A conservation area covering a mere 23.5 hectares has become a refuge for a unique and endangered animal species in the northeastern Peruvian region of San Martín: the Andean titi monkey. This wilderness preserve was created by a local woman who singlehandedly set... » read this article
Left-wing nationalist Ollanta Humala won the first round of Peru's presidential election but there was a tight race to see who would face him in a June run-off, early official results and unofficial counts showed.
With 18 percent of votes tallied, officials said Humala had 26.5 percent of the votes,... » read this article
On October 1, 2010, seven Peruvian SOA graduates were convicted of aggravated murder, kidnapping, forced disappearance, and conspiracy for their roles in two massacres of civilians and the murder of a radio journalist who had been reporting on human rights violations. The crimes were all committed by Grupo Colina, an... » read this article
Peru, birthplace of the spud, struggles to protect its biodiversity.
HUANCAYO, Peru—It is Saturday morning, and I am in the main food market of the provincial town of Huancayo, high in the Andes of Peru. In the potato section of this market, dozens of porters are hustling through with huge... » read this article
Editor's Note: Margarita Lacabe translated the lyrics of Mercedes Sosa's beautiful revolutionary song, "Juana Azurduy" from Spanish into English. Along with the music video republished below from her website, Margarita describes how she came to revisit the memory of Juana Azurduy, the significance of revolutionary women in Latin American history and the... » read this article
President Obama met with Peruvian President Alan Garcia at the White House on Tuesday amidst growing unrest in Peru over the Alan Garcia government’s free-market policies that open up indigenous lands to resource extraction. Outside the White House, Hollywood actor Q’orianka Kilcher chained herself to a fence, her body covered... » read this article
Local
leaders call for dialogue and a full investigation after two campesinos
were killed by police in north-western Peru last week.
On Wednesday afternoon, Vicente
Robledo Ramírez, aged 55 and father of eight children, and Castulo
Correa Huayama, aged 36 and father of six, were shot dead in a... » read this article
Some three hundred indigenous people from the Peruvian Amazon region
of Madre de Dios are on their way to the town of Salvacion to evict the
Texas-based company Hunt Oil from their ancestral territory.
According to reports on mongabay.com, hundreds of Peruvian police officers are waiting in the town for... » read this article
The Peruvian prime minister has said he plans to resign in the coming weeks following the deaths of dozens of people in clashes between indigenous groups and police over land laws.
Yehude Simon told Peruvian radio on Tuesday he would step down, a day after apologising to indigenous leaders and... » read this article
For background on this article, read:
Peru: 60 dead as Garcia Regime sends police to attack indigenous road blockade
Imagine the scandal and headlines if Hugo Chávez closed a radio station in Venezuela just days after it spoke out against the government's position on a hot topic?
What kind... » read this article
In early June, Peruvian President Alan García, an ally of US President Barack Obama, ordered armored personnel carriers, helicopter gun-ships and hundreds of heavily armed troops to assault and disperse a peaceful, legal protest organized by members of Peru’s Amazonian indigenous communities protesting the entry of foreign multinational mining companies... » read this article
