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  • October 2008

    • Would You Eat These?

      Guardian (UK)  |  Oct 9, 08 4:01 PM CDT

      Would You Eat These?

      (Newser) - Thank goodness for cultural differences. If it weren’t for an animal-rights crusade against Peru’s cat-eating festival, British Sun readers would have been subjected to yet another headline about the economic crisis yesterday, the Guardian ’s Justine Hankins writes. Instead, they got “a story that brilliantly combines two staples of tabloid journalism: pictures of baby animals being cute and tales of foreigners doing the funniest things.” More »

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      food  • Peru  • cats

  • August 2008

    • 1,300-Year-Old Mummy Found in Peru

      Reuters  |  Aug 27, 08 4:50 AM CDT

      1,300-Year-Old Mummy Found in Peru

      (Newser) - Archaeologists have discovered an ancient mummy in a tomb from a culture that flourished in Peru before the Incas. A complete female mummy, along with the remains of two other adults and a child, have been found in the Wari burial site in a residential district of Lima, Reuters reports. The site dates from about 700 AD. The Wari people ruled what is now Peru for some 500 years. More »

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      Peru  • tomb  • mummy  • Incas

  • May 2008

    • First Contact With Amazon Tribe

      BBC  |  May 30, 08 7:25 AM CDT

      First Contact With Amazon Tribe

      (Newser) - One of the last remaining Amazon tribal communities yet to have contact with the outside world has been photographed from the air, reports the BBC. The photos show startled, red-painted tribesmen aiming arrows at the aircraft overhead. Members live in thatched huts near Brazil's remote Peruvian border. More than half the world's 100 uncontacted tribes live in Brazil or Peru. Brazil's government took the photos as part of a push to protect the tribes. More »

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      Brazil  • Peru  • Amazon rainforest  • tribes

    • Peru Lawmaker Under Fire in Dog Shooting

      BBC  |  May 27, 08 8:45 AM CDT

      Peru Lawmaker Under Fire in Dog Shooting

      (Newser) - A Peruvian lawmaker is under investigation after a neighbor complained that the politician shot and killed her dog for bothering ducks. He's "a madman who takes pot-shots from his house every time he's upset,” said the neighbor, who lost her giant schnauzer. The member of Parliament, Miro Ruiz, has denied the charge, but a cabinet minister said the attack showed “psychological weakness” that “hurts the country.” More »

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      dog  • Peru  • congressman

  • April 2008

    • Peru Distributes '$100 Laptop'

      MIT Technology Review  |  Apr 24, 08 3:18 PM CDT

      Peru Distributes '$100 Laptop'

      (Newser) - One Laptop per Child got a bumpy start, with the “$100 laptop” soaring to $188, for-profit competitors snatching customers, and developing countries hesitating to buy. But the true test for the nonprofit comes now, as Peru prepares to send 486,500 computers to its poorest schoolchildren. The country faces daunting obstacles, but rural kids testing the laptops are enthusiastic, reports Technology Review . More »

    • Humble Spud Could Solve Food Crisis

      Reuters  |  Apr 15, 08 2:39 AM CDT

      Humble Spud Could Solve Food Crisis

      (Newser) - Sharp hikes in the prices of staples like wheat and rice are sending shockwaves around the world and convincing governments to rediscover the virtues of the potato, Reuters reports. Spuds are nutritious, will grow just about anywhere, and they yield up to four times more food per acre than other staples. Peruvians, faced with soaring wheat prices, have been switching to potato bread. More »

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      food  • food prices  • farming  • Peru  • crops  • food shortage  • food supply  • potato

    • Peru Swaps Backpackers for Well-Heeled Tourists

      Reuters  |  Apr 2, 08 12:13 PM CDT

      Peru Swaps Backpackers for Well-Heeled Tourists

      (Newser) - Peru’s government hopes to carve a thick slice out of the world’s luxury travel market,  aided by sumptuous trains with fancy oxygen enrichment systems and high-altitude 5-star hotels, reports Reuters. "It's not that we don't like backpackers," says the country's tourism minister, but with big bucks to be had, Peru is shifting its image away from frugal tourists living off pots of white rice. More »

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      travel  • tourism  • Peru  • luxury hotels  • luxury travel  • Machu Picchu

  • March 2008

    • Peru Dig Yields 4000-Year Old Gold Necklace

      LiveScience  |  Mar 31, 08 8:06 PM CDT

      Peru Dig Yields 4000-Year Old Gold Necklace

      (Newser) - Researchers have dug up the oldest piece of crafted gold in the Americas, a 4,000-year old gold necklace, LiveScience reports. Found at a pre-Inca burial site in Peru, the bling proves that primitive societies sought displays of wealth. It signals "the social process towards some kind of inequality," said Mark Aldenderfer, a University of Arizona anthropologist. More »

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      archaeology  • Peru  • discovery  • gold  • jewelry  • anthropology

    • Cocaine on the Upswing in Peru

      Los Angeles Times  |  Mar 23, 08 3:48 PM CDT

      Cocaine on the Upswing in Peru

      (Newser) - Peru's cocaine business is growing again, sparking a spate of killings, threats, and US-funded attempts to stop it, the Los Angeles Times reports. Coca bush plots have increased by a third since 1999 to feed markets in Europe, East Asia, and Brazil—but growers are hard to collar because they work piecemeal, without the flashy kingpins of old. "We're up against an army of ants," said Peru's top anti-drug cop. More »

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      Colombia  • cocaine  • Peru  • drug trafficking  • drug cartel  • War on Drugs  • coca  • Alan Garcia

    • Archaeologists Unearth Pre-Inca Temple

      Associated Press  |  Mar 16, 08 6:29 AM CDT

      Archaeologists Unearth Pre-Inca Temple

      (Newser) - Archaeologists have dug up a pre-Incan temple that sheds light on a lost Peruvian culture, the AP reports. Nestled in a mountain region, the sprawling site housed the Killke people as they fended off an encroaching Spanish empire around 1200 AD. Evidence of mummies and idols shows that the Killke were not only warriors but had a "sacred ceremonial nature," one researcher said. More »

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      archaeology  • Peru  • discovery  • ancient cities  • Inca

  • February 2008

    • Ancient Plaza Found in Peru

      Reuters  |  Feb 26, 08 1:50 PM CST

      Ancient Plaza Found in Peru

      (Newser) - Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed one of the oldest structures in the Americas, Reuters reports. Carbon dating indicates the ceremonial plaza in Casma is 5,500 years old, scientists at the dig say. That's 500 years older than the nearby ancient citadel of Caral, previously thought be Peru’s oldest ruins. "It's an impressive find," said the project's supervisor. More »

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      archaeology  • Peru  • discovery  • Lima  • ancient cities

    • Climate Swing Jump-Started Civilization

      NPR  |  Feb 12, 08 2:10 PM CST

      Climate Swing Jump-Started Civilization

      (Newser) - An ancient Peruvian civilization may have been kick-started by a climate swing. Five thousand years ago, hunter-gatherers moved inland from the seashore, settling in arid, desolate river valleys where they learned to farm. Archaeologist Jonathan Haas thinks the new settlers were spurred to move by more frequent El Ninos, which killed the fish and shellfish they had relied on for food, reports NPR. More »

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      archaeology  • Peru  • El Nino

  • January 2008

    • Iraq Hired Guns Fight en Español

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jan 28, 08 2:20 PM CST

      Iraq Hired Guns Fight en Español

      (Newser) - Not every security contractor in Iraq is a hotshot American making $500 a day. Many of the private security personnel roaming Iraq are poor Latin Americans, for whom the promise of $1,000 a month and full benefits is nearly irresistible, reports the LA Times. “I’d rather die in a war than die of hunger in my own country,” said one Peruvian former guard. More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • Latin America  • Peru  • security contractors  • security guards  • Triple Canopy

  • December 2007