Tag Archives : Peru

The Briton who walked more than 9500 km from the source to the mouth of the Amazon River ended its journey on Monday (9), claiming to have been the first to complete such Herculean task. Ed Stafford, 34, a former British Army captain who served in Afghanistan, left Peru on April 2 to call attention to threats to the Amazon. He had to postpone for a [...]

‘Greenpeace has been fighting Japanese whaling for more than three decades, from the waters of the Southern Ocean to the online world to the courts of Japan.’ The organization ‘first brought whaling to the world’s attention in 1975 when activists put their own lives on the line by navigating small inflatable boats in front of the harpoons.’ [...]

A new type of hedge fund was invented in the mid-1990s. It was eponymously called ‘vulture fund.’ These funds are used to ‘buy debts racked up years ago by the poorest countries on earth, almost always when they were run by kleptocratic dictators, before most of the current population was born.’ They buy the debt from the original holder at [...]

According to a recent report by Survival International, a London-based group that advocates for native cultures, ‘native peoples are suffering a swine flu infection rate four to five times higher than that of the general population.’ Native-rights groups assert that the world’s indigenous people such as tribes are at ‘greatest risk from [...]

The return home was not like Pablo Eche had dreamed. After 15 months in a recovery clinic, struggling against his addiction in “paco”, a highly addictive drug that put an end to thousands of lives in Argentina, Eche returned to Ciudad Oculta. His relatives, including his mother, Bilma Acuna, anti-paco activist of the community, gave him the good [...]

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has shown Friday 20, that the area of cultivation of the coca leaf declined by 18 thousand hectares in 2008 in Colombia, for the previous year. But in Bolivia and Peru, there was an increase of 6% and 4.5% respectively. Between 2007 and 2008, the cultivation of coca in Colombia rose from 99 hectares [...]

Vermilion, a bright red pigment used in ancient rituals in the Andes and as an adornment to ‘gold and silver ceremonial objects in ancient burials of kings and nobles in South America,’ held the proof of the main reason behind large-scale mercury mining in the Andes as early as 1400 B.C. This finding refutes the earlier and more widely-accepted [...]

Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa criticized the unfounded discrimination experienced by some Mexican citizens in other countries due to the fear of infection from the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, formerly known as swine flu. At a press conference, the secretary said that she was surprised with the decision of ‘brother’ countries such as [...]

Linfen in China is located right in the center of the country’s massive coal industry. The place has the dubious honor of being the most polluted city in the world. It also has not had a mayor for half a year now because the previous local executives were dismissed from service for poor management. The local power now lies with the Deputy Mayor Luo [...]