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The Fujimori Verdict and the Justice Cascade: Ending Impunity

Scott Gilmore | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

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Scott Gilmore

Today's sentence against Fujimori is a victory against impunity, and a repudiation of the notion that government leaders are bound by no limits when it comes to national security.

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Peru: Fujimori Verdict A Rights Victory

Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

Read More: Fujimori, Peru, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Colina, Fujimori Colina, Alberto Fujimori, Foreign Affairs, Fujimori Convicted, Latin America, Lima-Peru, World News
Human Rights Watch

(Lima, April 7, 2009) - Today's conviction of Alberto Fujimori, former president of Peru, is a major advance for human rights accountability in the re...

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Peru's Fujimori Convicted In Murder, Kidnapping Trial

AP | FRANK BAJAK | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Fujimori, Peru, Human Rights, Foreign Affairs, Alberto Fujimori, Fujimori Human Rights Crimes, Human Rights Abuses, Human Rights Crimes, Advocacy, Latin America, Fujimori Conviction, Alberto Fujimoro, Lima-Peru, Trials on Genocide 2009 in Peru, Gilmore Fujimori, World News

LIMA, Peru — Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison Tuesday for death squad killings and k...

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Advice to Obama at G-20 Summit: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.01.2009 | Business

Read More: John F. Kennedy, President Obama, G20 Summit, Trade and Poverty, Gary Shapiro, Health Care Kiosk, Colombia, Obama, Barack Obama, Obama and Op-Ed, Trade at Hand, Emerging Markets, Progressive, Peru, South Korea, g20, Free Trade, Protectionism, President Kennedy, A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats, Cea, Jfk, Telemedicine, Free Trade Agreements, Consumer Electronics Association, Poverty, G-20, Business News
Gary Shapiro

I don't know precisely when progressives in this country gave up on free trade. Because when they did, without perhaps even realizing it, they turned their backs on the developing world.

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Peru's Guerrillas, Drugs Could Plunge The Country Back Into War

New York Times | Posted 04.17.2009 | World

Read More: Peruvian Rebels, Peru, Latin America, Abimael GuzmáN, Peruvian Guerrillas, Coca, Shining Path, Cocaine, World News

First the soldiers came to Río Seco, a coca-growing village in the lush mountain jungles of southern Peru. "They called us subversives and they opene...

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Peru: Award-Winning Film Exposes Rape As Weapon Of War

Inter Press Service | Milagros Salazar | Posted 04.14.2009 | World

Read More: The Milk of Sorrow, Womens Rights, Peru, Latin America, Lima, Film, Peru War, Rape War Weapon, La Teta Asustada, Berlin Film Festival, Inter Press Service, World News

LIMA, Mar 11 (IPS) - The film La Teta Asustada/The Milk of Sorrow, the big winner at the Berlin Film Festival, drives home the brutal effects of Per...

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Accepting Trauma: Berlinale Golden Bear Winner Milk of Sorrow

Karin Badt | Posted 03.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Golden Bear, Shamanism, Peru, Claudia Llosa, Berlinale, Milk of Sorrow, Magaly Solier, La Teta Asustada, Depression, Rape, Healing Trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

The winner of the Berlin Film Festival, Claudia Llosa's The Milk of Sorrow, begins with a shot of an aged grey-haired Peruvian woman recounting how she was raped by soldiers when pregnant.

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Peruvian Shamans Give Obama Optimistic Predictions For New Year (SLIDESHOW)

AFP/Getty/AP/Local | Posted 01.29.2009 | Style

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During a ceremony to ring in the New Year, Peruvian shamans gave President-elect Barack Obama a good forecast for the coming year. According to a loc...

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Peru: Ancient City Found By Archaeologists

Reuters | DANA FORD | Posted 01.17.2009 | World

Read More: Wari Culture, Chiclayo, Ancient Civilization, Peru, Latin America, Ancient City Peru, Cerro Patapo, World News

LIMA -- Researchers digging at the Cerro Patapo archeological site in northern Peru have discovered the ruins of an entire city, which may provide the...

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Bush In A Poncho (SLIDESHOW)

AFP/Getty | Posted 12.25.2008 | Style

Read More: Slideshow, Apec, Peru, George W. Bush, Lima, Ponchos, Bush Poncho, Style News

This past weekend President Bush donned a traditional Peruvian poncho for the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Lima. The visit is Bush's ...

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CIA Shot Down American Missionary Plane, Repeatedly Misled Congress, Report Finds

Washington Post | Joby Warrick | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Peru, Michael Hayden, Cia, Rep. Pete Hoekstra, War Wire, Drugs, Foreign Affairs, War on Drugs, Politics News

The CIA repeatedly misled Congress and the Justice Department in their investigations of the 2001 shoot-down of a Peruvian plane carrying U.S. mission...

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Free Markets, Free Trade & Death

Dan Kovalik | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Undiscovered Tribes, Peru, Wall Street, Bailout, Economy, Free Trade, Crisis, Capitalism, Indigenous, Free Trade Agreement, Politics News
Dan Kovalik

While the effects of free trade in Peru are horrendous, the good news is that people there are fighting back.

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La Oroya: A Poisoned Town, A Billionaire's Profit

Dennis O'Brien | Posted 10.31.2008 | Green

Read More: Renco, Hdnet, Peru, Hamptons, Corporate America, Environment, Michael Davie, Ira Rennert, Green News
Dennis O'Brien

When we discuss pollution, we tend to focus on global effects of global consumption -- warming caused by billions of individual lifestyle choices. La Oroya, however, is a place where the effects are felt here and now.

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Chinese Copper Mining In Peru To Displace Town, Mountain

BBC.co.uk | John Simpson | Posted 06.26.2008 | Green

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At 15,000 feet (4,600m), Mount Toromocho, 86 miles (138km) from Lima, is comparable to any mountain in Europe. It gets its name from its shape - The ...

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Powerful Earthquake Hits Peru-Ecuador Border

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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A powerful earthquake shook the border region of Ecuador and Peru late Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage. Local media...

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4,000-Year-Old Temple Discovered In Peru

Reuters | Marco Aquino | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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A 4,000-year-old temple filled with murals has been unearthed on the northern coast of Peru, making it one of the oldest finds in the Americas, a lead...

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