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Peru communities protesting MMG's Las Bambas mine to meet President Castillo

A group of Peruvian indigenous communities that have been protesting MMG Ltd's huge Las Bambas copper mine will meet with President Pedro Castillo on Tuesday in Lima in a new bid to defuse the crisis, a community leader told Reuters.

Reuters

Peru sues Spain's Repsol for $4.5 bn over oil spill

Lima (AFP) - Peru has filed suit against Spanish energy company Repsol over the massive January oil spill that ravaged its coast, seeking $4.5 billion in damages.

AFP

Seeking the right to euthanasia in Peru

Ana Estrada, a 45-year-old writer, poet and psychologist with a progressive muscular disease, is fighting for the right to die by euthanasia, writes Samantha Schmidt

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Commentary: The border the US shares with Mexico? We really share it with the world

About 15 years ago I was shadowing a local journalist on Peru’s northern coast who was reporting on a group of 20 Chinese nationals local police found lost in the nearby desert. They’d arrived on a container ship that sailed from China to Lima and had paid traffickers to get…

Los Angeles Times

Facing hunger, Peru's poor band together with 'common pots'

Every day for more than two years, Cindy Cueto has woken up in the house she shares with her three children atop a desert hill in Peru’s capital, and wondered: “What are we going to eat?”

The Independent UK

In Peru's slums, chicken off the menu as soup kitchens struggle with inflation

In the hilly slums of Peruvian capital Lima, soup kitchens struggle to feed some of the Andean nation's poorest and most vulnerable residents, cutting proteins and loading up on carbohydrates, as food prices soar.

Reuters

Peru president at bay as fuel and fertiliser prices detonate political crisis

Pedro Castillo lifted a curfew in Lima but is still facing calls to resign after a rash of bad decisions and allegations of corruption

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Peru ends Lima curfew aimed at quelling protests

Lima (AFP) - Peruvian President Pedro Castillo on Tuesday announced the end of a curfew in the capital Lima aimed at containing protests against rising fuel prices following crisis talks with Congress.

AFP

Peru imposes curfew in Lima as violent inflation protests spread

Peru’s president declared a curfew in the capital Lima on Tuesday to stem violent protests against inflation that have intensified in recent days, leading to clashes with police, temporary food shortages and supply-chain disruptions.

Tribune News Service

Peru PM says lockdown could spread beyond capital to curb fuel protests

Peru's prime minister said on Tuesday that a mandatory lockdown in Lima aimed to curb violent protests over surging fuel and fertilizer prices could also be put in place in the interior of the country if unrest does not stop.

Reuters

Fuel protests prompt Lima curfew as Ukraine crisis touches South America

Peru’s embattled president takes drastic action as fertiliser and fuel prices soar and Brazil seeks to open Indigenous territory to mining

The Guardian - US

Peru president imposes curfew in Lima, Callao after protests

Lima (AFP) - Peruvian President Pedro Castillo announced a curfew for Tuesday in the capital Lima and neighboring port city Callao, after demonstrations across the country over fuel prices caused roadblocks and "acts of violence".

AFP

Peruvian President Castillo avoids impeachment in Congress vote

Lima (AFP) - Peru's President Pedro Castillo avoided impeachment by an opposition-dominated Congress on Monday, bringing to a close the second bid to unseat him since he rose to power eight months ago.

AFP

36-million-year-old whale fossil found in Peruvian desert

Lima (AFP) - Paleontologists on Thursday unveiled the fossilized remains of an ancient whale that inhabited the seas 36 million years ago, found last year in a Peruvian desert.

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Peru's Castillo comes out fighting after impeachment vote, slams 'institutional crisis'

Peruvian President Pedro Castillo on Tuesday rejected allegations of corruption and told Congress, which passed a motion to impeach him earlier this week that all branches of government are in crisis right now.

AFP

Unemployment, pay gap, instability the pandemic legacy for Peru's women

Lima (AFP) - When the pandemic struck Peru and forced the economy to shut down in an attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus, women were some of the hardest hit.

Reuters

1,200-year-old remains of sacrificed adults, kids unearthed in Peru

Peruvian archeologists have unearthed eight children and 12 adults apparently sacrificed around 800-1,200 years ago, they said on Tuesday, in a major dig at the pre-Incan Cajamarquilla complex east of Lima.

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Peru Cops Bust Car-Theft Gang And Find Them Worshipping Chucky Doll For Protection

The alleged gang members had set up an altar for the doll alongside toy cars and candles.

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Prepare for mass migration to cities in climate crisis, UK mayors warn

Sadiq Khan and Marvin Rees call for action as major report launched during UN Migration Week

The Independent UK

1 month after oil spill, Lima's beaches empty, cleanup slow

Dozens of beaches near Lima are deserted and thousands of fishermen remain without work, one month after an oil spill at a refinery created what the United Nations called the worst ecological disaster in Peru’s recent history

AFP

Ancient mummies of children, likely sacrificed, unearthed in Peru

Lima (AFP) - Six mummified children thought to have been sacrificed hundreds of years ago, apparently to accompany a dead nobleman to the afterlife, have been unearthed in a tomb near Lima, archaeologists reported.

AFP

Round-the-clock care for Peru's oil-stained sea birds

Lima (AFP) - Hand fed fish and given gentle yet rigorous baths, penguins and other sea birds are slowly regaining their strength at a Peruvian zoo after a major oil spill that claimed many of their friends.

AFP

Peru government says oil spill twice as big as previously thought

Lima (AFP) - The oil spill off the coast of Peru sparked by a volcanic eruption thousands of miles away is twice as big as previously reported, the government said Friday.

AFP

Repsol executives barred from leaving Peru over oil spill

Lima (AFP) - A judge in Peru on Friday barred four executives of Spanish energy giant Repsol from leaving the country for 18 months as investigations look into a catastrophic oil spill.

AFP

Peru declares environmental emergency on coastal area hit by oil spill

Lima (AFP) - Peru declared an environmental emergency Saturday to battle an oil spill caused by freak waves from a volcanic eruption in the South Pacific.

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