Reporting On Peru
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Stories: Peru
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Doctors in Peru battle increasingly drug-resistant TB
MDR-TB patients face discrimination, long road to recovery in Peru Patients who develop multi-drug resistant tuberculosis face an arduous course ...
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Peru’s Mineral Wealth and Woes
Introduction LIMA, PERU -- The commodities boom of the last decade fueled growth, but it also poses social and environmental problems. Peru is emblematic of the economic promise ...
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Kurt Holle’s ecolodge employs locals while slowing the devastation of the Amazon
Kurt Holle opened the Posada Amazonas ecolodge in 1996 and will turn over all operations to locals in 2016. photo: Matthew Clark/The Christian ...
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Peru farmers drop cocaine in favor of cocoa
Pinto Recodo, Peru — Deep in a valley where Peru's snow-capped Andes melt into Amazon jungle, Wilder Diaz Angulo cuts open a football-sized cocoa pod and separates precious ...
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Latin America’s surprise rising economic star: Peru
Lima, Peru - Often overlooked as a player in the global economy, Peru is determined to prove that it’s more than just llamas, bowler hats, and Macchu Picchu. And these days, ...
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Environment: In Peru’s Amazon, finding gold but leaving mercury
Puerto Maldonado, Peru - On a sweltering day in Peru’s Amazon, Riquelme loads a bag of rocks onto his back, sticks a plastic hose in his mouth, and steps off the back of a ...
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Rising prices spark a new gold rush in Peruvian Amazon
The price of gold has drawn miners to Madre de Dios, a department of southeastern Peru. But deforestation and use of mercury in the mining have ...
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Barton: If the shoe fits, give thanks
I gave a shoe-shine boy my last twenty last week. Not dollars. Soles. That's the currency of Peru, where I've been for the past two weeks. Twenty soles is roughly $7. I had been ...
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Peru Gatekeeper trip deadline nears
Trip dates: November 8-20, 2009 Click here for Gatekeeper application form >> Peru is known as the cradle of the Incan empire, one of the oldest ancient civilizations. But did ...
