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Taking on No Impact Week From Abroad: Lima's Transportation System Sucks

Levi Novey | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Black Beans, No Impact Week, Peru, No Impact Man, HuffPost No Impact Week, Combis, Lima-Peru, Sustainability, Climate Change, Air Pollution, Transportation, Green News

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.

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Torture Accountability at Last - for Peru

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Torture Investigation, Peru, Corporations, Monterrico Metals, Guantanamo, Bush Torture, Torture Memos, Eric Holder, Bush Torture Memos, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

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.

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Monterrico Torture: Mining Company Accused Of Torture In Peru

The Guardian | Ian Cobain | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Monterrico Torture, Attacks, Rape, Corporation, Corporate, Indigenous People, Copper Mine, Peru, Monterrico Metals, Monterrico Mining Company, Protests, Environment, Copper, Monterrico Mine, Indigenous, Torture, Corporate Torture, World News

A British mining corporation is facing a multimillion-pound claim for damages after protesters were detained and allegedly tortured at an opencast cop...

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Taking on No Impact Week from Abroad: Will Living in Peru Make It Harder?

Levi Novey | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: No Impact Week, Walking, No Impact Man, Peru, HuffPost No Impact Week, Cars, No Impact Experiment, No Impact Project, Outdoor Exercise, Recycling, Sustainability, Climate Change, Pollution, Green News

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.

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Jersey City music teacher helps children in Amazon document their lives

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 10.10.2009 | Home

Read More: Jersey City, Peru, Home News

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...

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Pro Mujer: Journey Towards Women's Empowerment In Latin America

Jim Luce | Posted 09.22.2009 | World

Read More: Family Health, Sexual Health, Peru, Carmen Velasco, Communal Association, Women’s Health, Argentina, Barrios, Pro Mujer, Mohammad Yunus, Lynne Patterson, Self-Sufficiency, Microfinance, Grameen Bank, Racism, Machismo, Discrimination, Classism, Family, Women, Poverty, Barbara Magnoni, Latin America, Mexico, Potential-Realization, Cycle of Poverty, Nicaragua, Peruvian Ministry of Education, Human Rights, Bangladesh, Counseling., Bolivia, Cervical Cancer, Reproductive Health., Childhood Education, Latino Culture, Domestic Violence, World News

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.

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An Encounter with a Shipibo Girl in the Amazon

Karin Luisa | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

Read More: Peru, Cross-Cultural Encounters, Children, Beginning Spanish, Gringa-Indigenous Encounter, Amazon, Women Travelling Alone, Shipibo, Pucallpa, World News

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?"

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Corruption and Money Vs. The Environment

Reporters Uncensored | Posted 09.05.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Peru, United Nations-Global Compact, Land Rights, Garcia, Rainforest, Environment, Ghana, Oil, Reporters Uncensored, Indigenous, Foreign-Mining, President, Rutv, World News

Our main topic this week will be corruption, within governments and multinational corporations.   Corrupt practices are impacting the environment and devastating indigenous communities.

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Italian Textile Royalty: Milano Unica

Nancy Tilghman | Posted 08.18.2009 | Style

Read More: Italy, Mongolia, Italian, Peru, Textiles, China, Sheep, Wool, Style News

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.

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Fujimori Trial: Ex-Peruvian Pres. Admits To Pay-Offs

AP | ANDREW WHALEN | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

Read More: Latin America, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Alberto Fujimori, Fujimori, Fujimori Convicted, Fujimori Trial, Peru, World News

LIMA, Peru — Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori acknowledged Monday that he paid his spy chief $15 million in state money to quit as his...

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The silence of the Obama administration on the Bagua massacre in Peru helps impunity for Alan Garcia

GroundReport.com | GroundReport.com | Posted 10.03.2009 | Home

Read More: Peru, Home News

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...

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Full-Spectrum Idiocy: GOP and Chavez on Iran

Norman Solomon | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hugo Chavez, Cia, World Bank, U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement, Imf, Barack Obama, Indigenous People, Quixote Center, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Shah, World Trade Organization, Human Rights, Peru, Center for International Policy, President Bush, Republican Party, Amazon, Politics News

When approaching Iran, the Republican Party line and the Hugo Chavez line are running in opposite directions -- but parallel.

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Chile's Military Expansion Tips Regional Scale

GlobalPost | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Chilean Military, Chile, South America, Peru, Latin America, Colombia, Brazil, Foreign Affairs, Chile Military, Advocacy, World News

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...

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A Near-Zero-Cost Approach to Do-Gooding: My 375th Kiva Loan

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.

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Indigenous Protest and State Violence in the Peruvian Amazon: How the Media Misrepresents

John Gibler | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

Read More: Peruvian Amazon, Indigenous Rights, Peru, Amazon, Indigenous People, Wambis, Awajun, World News

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."

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Peru's Tribal Chief Flees Country After Killings Over Oil, Logging Laws

Independent | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

Read More: Amazon's Tiananmen, Peru Fighting, Peru, Latin America, Lima, Alberto Pizango, Peru Amazon, Amazon, Aidesep, Peruvian Indians, World News

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...

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The Free Market's Marked Men, From The Niger Delta To The Amazon

Amy Goodman | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Niger Delta, Alien Tort Claims Act, Wiwa v. Shell, Lima, World, World News, Environment, Politics News, Oil Spills, Peru, Peruvian Jungle Interethnic Development Association, Shareholders, Corporate Crime, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Amazon, Human Rights, Alberto Pizango, U.S./Peru Trade Promotion Agreement, Chevron, Africa, Royal Dutch Shell, Oil, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Pollution, Shell Oil, Center for Constitutional Rights, Rainforests, Ken Wiwa, Alan Garcia, Ecuador, Oil Companies, Genocide, Green News, Breaking Politics News, Ogoni, Ptpa, Aidesep, World News

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.

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Obama's Coup in Cairo

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Shah, Iran, Islam, Obama, Peru, Cairo, Cia, Iranian-Government, Obama Mideast Trip, Muslim World, Politics News

Short-sighted greedy goals end up causing long-term world problems. If Iran was not alienated from Western nations, how different would our geo-political world look today?

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Protests Over Amazon Escalate In Peru

AP | FRANKLIN BRICENO | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Protests, Peru, Amazon, Land, Oil, Gas, Indians, Amazon Indians, Oil Drilling, Logging, Mining, Large-Scale Farming, Alan Garcia, Bagua, Green News

BAGUA, Peru — President Alan Garcia accused Amazon Indians of "barbarity" Sunday in the killing of 22 members of a paramilitary police force sen...

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Police clash with indigenous protesters in Peru

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 07.10.2009 | Home

Read More: Peru, Home News

Peru has seen clashes between indigenous protesters and police. Alan Garcia, the president of Peru, appears to be a prizewinner for spouting ...

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Top 10 Places to Stretch Your Dollar This Summer

Terry Gardner | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Hawaii, Top Ten List, Europe, Australia, Iceland, Washington, New Zealand, Sydney, Stretch Your Dollar, Los Angeles, Brazil, New York City, Costa Rica, Maui, Peru, Bungy Jumps, Argentina, D.C., National Parks, The Carribean, Best Summer Travel Bargains, World News

If Bernie Madoff didn't waltz off with your money, and you can afford a trip this summer, start packing.

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Full Show: June 8, 2009

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 07.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Peru, North Korea, Lebanon, Home News

Watch the show from Monday, June 8: North Korea antagonizes Obama administration, violence in Peru, Lebanon’s election results and the Oprah ef...

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Vulture Funds Lobby Against Argentina, Trying To Use the U.S. Congress In Public Relations Campaign

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Eric Massa, Latin America, Argentina Default, Obama Latin America, Argentina, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, US Foreign Policy, Nestor Kirchner, Atfa, Argentine, Nicaragua, Cayman Islands, Peru, World News

Eric Massa, a freshman Democratic Representative from Corning in the state of New York, has introduced legislation on May 20 that would seek to punish Argentina by, among other things, denying the country access to U.S. capital markets.

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The Amazon Rainforest is More Important than Electric Cars

Levi Novey | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Rainforests, Amazon Rainforest, Amazon Deforestation, Rainforest, Deforestation, Amazon, Ecuador, Peru, Electric Cars, Neil Young, Guyana, Brazil, Green News

Since the Amazon Rainforest is so important, we must ask ourselves: "Why have we (or at least the media) become so bored of discussing the Amazon and deforestation?"

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