A love triangle in Peru has ended with the man in the middle being beaten with fists and shoes by his wife and her aunt when he tried to surreptitious...
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 12.02.2009 | Home
Health emergency declared in northern Peru as tribe says it is close to extinction. ...
Helena Christensen | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green
As with many poorer countries, Peru is bearing the brunt of a problem it has done little to cause. Its emissions account for only 0.1% of greenhouse gasses, but climate change has affected all aspects of life there.
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 11.20.2009 | Home
Authorities claim group sold fat from corpses to black-market buyers....
AP | ANDREW WHALEN | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
LIMA, Peru — A gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, police charged Thursday, draining it from their corpses...
Lisa J. Laplante | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
On the world stage, the Alberto Fujimori's conviction will stand as a warning that the preservation of national security can no longer serve as a cloak for violence and human rights abuse.
AP | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
LIMA, Peru — "They call me the hardware store," says Requelme Abanto from his hospital bed in northern Peru. Doctors in the city of Cajamarca sa...
Jim Luce | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York
Forty years ago, El Museo del Barrio was a dream contained in a single classroom so far north that “sophisticated” Manhattanites would not...
Levi Novey | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
Reducing consumption is hard enough, but doing No Impact Week in a country where the buses are dangerous and the air pollution is much higher than what is healthy -- that's a challenge.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
It is not cliche or radical to demand the U.S. hold our own torturers (at all levels) to the same level of accountability as British mining corporations.
The Guardian | Ian Cobain | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
A British mining corporation is facing a multimillion-pound claim for damages after protesters were detained and allegedly tortured at an opencast cop...
Levi Novey | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
After looking at the No Impact Week guide, I felt ashamed that living abroad had become a sort of false crutch upon which I could hang my environmental credibility.
NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 10.10.2009 | Home
JERSEY CITY -- A local piano teacher moved by a volunteer trip to Peru is reaching out to children there with a project that helps them document t...
Jim Luce | Posted 11.22.2009 | World
Pro Mujer is helping some of the poorest women in Latin America to increase their income, develop their full potential, and claim their basic human rights, enabling them to become agents of change.
Karin Luisa | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
While walking at dusk behind my hut in the Amazon, I ran into a little girl I knew crossing the grass , naked, with a towel in her hand, and I said, "what are you doing?"
Reporters Uncensored | Posted 09.05.2009 | World
Our main topic this week will be corruption, within governments and multinational corporations. Corrupt practices are impacting the environment and devastating indigenous communities.
Nancy Tilghman | Posted 08.18.2009 | Style
Milano Unica will not only be a textile fair. It will also present, for the first time ON STAGE-- an unveiling of ten emerging fashion talents from around the world.
AP | ANDREW WHALEN | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
LIMA, Peru — Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori acknowledged Monday that he paid his spy chief $15 million in state money to quit as his...
GroundReport.com | GroundReport.com | Posted 10.03.2009 | Home
By Carlos A. Quiroz GroundReport.com It’s been a month since the June 5 massacre in Bagua where hundreds of Indigenous peoples were killed in t...
Norman Solomon | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
When approaching Iran, the Republican Party line and the Hugo Chavez line are running in opposite directions -- but parallel.
GlobalPost | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
Chile's government recently announced the purchase of 18 F-16 combat planes from Holland, continuing a decade-long weapons spending spree that some sa...
Bob Harris | Posted 07.16.2009 | Business
Metaphorically, micro lending is not giving someone a fish, and it's not teaching someone to fish; it's helping a fisherman patch a hole in his rowboat so he can get on with life.
John Gibler | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
The initial media response to the violence obscured the order and nature of events and thus the responsibility for violence, converting a bloody police raid into generic "clashes."
Independent | Posted 07.12.2009 | World
The leader of Peru's Amazon Indians will be flown to exile in Nicaragua after seeking asylum following violent demonstrations that killed scores of po...
Amy Goodman | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
Ken Saro-Wiwa's family and others just won a landmark settlement in U.S. federal court, ending a 13-year battle with Shell Oil. Alberto Pizango's ordeal is just beginning.
Posted 12.02.2009 | World