Peru: Where in the world is Alejandro Toledo?
Apparently former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo was trying to get to Israel, which does’t want him. He was flying from San Francisco, since he’s a visiting professor at Stanford University....
View ArticlePeru: PPK visits Trump
Not much coverage on this, the “first sit-down meeting” with a Latin American president, Peru’s President Talks Growth, Trade and ‘Bridges’ With TrumpU.S. President Donald Trump on Friday held his...
View ArticlePeru: Woman scrambles out of a mudslide
Incredible strength and a will to live, Peru flooding: woman scrambles out of vast mudslide – video A woman stumbles across rafts of debris to make it to safety after being caught in a huge mudslide...
View ArticleColombia: Magdalena River dredging project suspended over Odebrecht
The project to make the Magdalena River in Colombia more navigable has been suspended: Odebrecht Bribery Plea Muddies Colombia’s Big River Project. Channelization of Magdalena River stalled over...
View ArticlePeru beats Uganda
An interesting article on what Peru has done well, Why foreign investors choose Peru and not, erm, Uganda? And yes, Peru’s recent economic burst can be attributed to high commodity prices and massive...
View ArticleThe Peru-Ecuador wall
You probably didn’t know about this wall: Peru has demanded that Ecuador stop construction work on a wall that its neighbor is building on the border between the two countries The border has long been...
View ArticlePeru: Global Witness report on timber trafficking
Report Exposes Inner Workings of Timber Trafficking in Peru The report, released on November 9 by investigative watchdog group Global Witness, tells the story of the most high-profile anti-timber...
View ArticleAround the Hemisphere
I’m enjoying the Season with family, but here are a few headlines, ARGENTINA Say what? Argentina’s pro-business President Mauricio Macri is inviting low-cost airlines to invest in Argentina’s...
View ArticlePeru: Fujimori going on trial . . . again
The BBC reports that Peru’s ex-President Alberto Fujimori has been ordered to stand trial for the 1992 killings of six farmers. It comes just over a month after he was released from prison, where he...
View ArticlePeru: President PPK resigns
Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has quit over a vote-buying scandal. He has denied wrongdoing but said on Wednesday that he did not want to be an obstacle to the country’s development. Party...
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