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November 10, 2009
Toward Freedom
   The Peru Shoot Down: The CIA, DynCorp, and Why the Truth May Not Come Out -- Among the five cases of intelligence operation cover up currently being investigated by the US House Intelligence Committee is the 2001 shoot down of a small plane in Peru, resulting in the death of a Baptist missionary from Michigan and her 7-month-old daughter. The CIA inspector general has already concluded that the CIA improperly concealed information about the incident.
 
November 02, 2009
Upside Down World
   US Oil Company Threatened with Eviction from Amazon -- Indigenous people have threatened to evict a US company, Hunt Oil, exploring for oil on their ancestral land in the Peruvian Amazon.
 
October 19, 2009
Upside Down World
   The Neoliberal Crusade For Resources on Indigenous Lands in the Peruvian Amazon -- Despite the repeal of Peruvian President Alan Garcia’s controversial executive decrees that attempted to open Peru to foreign investment, it appears as though the Amazon is still very much for sale.
 
October 16, 2009
Upside Down World
   Peru: Gov't Seeks Legal Shield for Security Forces -- The Peruvian government has moved to protect the armed forces and police against investigations for crimes committed in the line of duty, especially in areas convulsed by social protests.
 
September 28, 2009
BBC News
   Fujimori pleads guilty to bribery -- Ex-Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, has pleaded guilty to bribery and illegal phone-tapping of journalists, businessmen and opposition politicians.
 
June 12, 2009
The Huffington Post
   Indigenous Protest and State Violence in the Peruvian Amazon: How the Media Misrepresents -- Before dawn on Friday, June 5, an estimated 650 Peruvian National Police and Special Forces officers attacked several thousand Awajun and Wambis indigenous people at their roadside blockade on the Fernando Belaunde Terry highway. The media's misrepresentation of the violence has only lent a hand to the Peruvian government's attempt to paint the peaceful, dialogue-seeking indigenous groups as violent terrorists.
 
June 11, 2009
Truthout
   US-Peru FTA Sparks Indigenous Massacre -- During the last week, deep in the Peruvian Amazon, confrontations between nonviolent indigenous protesters and police have left up to 100 people dead. The vast majority of the casualties are civilians, who have been conducting peaceful demonstrations in defense of the Amazon rain forest.
 
April 08, 2009
Reuters
   Peru's Fujimori gets 25 years prison for massacres -- Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was convicted of human rights crimes and sentenced to 25 years in prison on Tuesday, the first time a democratically elected Latin American president has been found guilty in his own country of such offenses.
 
March 24, 2008
BBC News
   Peru tribe battles oil giant over pollution -- It is a familiar story. Big business moves into a pristine wilderness and starts destroying the environment and by turn the livelihoods of the indigenous people who live there.
 
February 08, 2008
BBC News
   Peru's potato passion goes global -- At harvest time in the highland village of Paucho, the first crop of potatoes are baked in a hole in the ground covered with hot rocks, in a ceremony called Watia - a homage to Pacha Mama, or Mother Earth.
 
December 05, 2007
BBC News
   US Senate passes Peru trade pact -- The United States Senate has overwhelmingly approved a free-trade agreement with Peru.
 
November 08, 2007
Oxfam America
   Peru Trade Deal Fails to Deliver on Development Potential -- US House of Representatives has recently passed the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement. This deal could have disastrous effects on Peru's development. Oxfam America explains why.
 
September 28, 2007
opendemocracy.net
   Alberto Fujimori’s return: a political timebomb -- Alberto Fujimori is extradited from Chile. This article examines Fujimori and current president of Peru, Alan Garcia.
 


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