A likely pre-Inca cemetery, containing 200 skeletons as well as ceramics, was discovered in a 70-by-15 meter cave located a three-hour hike away from Nuevo Jordán, in the northern department of Amazonas, state news agency Andina reported Friday.
Some of the tombs were damaged by local farmers who went scavenging for valuable objects, said Professor Pablo […]

Peruvian health authorities have reported that a fast-growing outbreak of dengue fever, aggravated by heavy rain and torrid heat, might lead to the reappearance of the more serious dengue hemorrhagic fever in Iquitos, a city of approximately 300,000 residents in Peru’s northern Amazon region.
According to Loreto’s Regional Health Office, 4,348 people have contracted dengue fever […]

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Mass protests have swept across Peru this week, with protesters threatening politicians and torching a police station, in what local media has dubbed the end of premier Yehude Simon’s “honeymoon.”
Thousands flooded the streets Thursday in the southern province of Tacna, blocking strips of the Pan-American highway and torching the governor’s office, after local media reported […]

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Published in El Comercio Oct.29, 2008
Over the past few days, a terrible sensation has been gradually increasing that the country is literally being blackmailed, by an illegal system of telephone and private communications interception, controlled by some anonymous puppeteer. And that, though it may be redundant to say so, does nothing less than progressively […]

Peru, the U.S., Chile, China, and more than 15 other countries around the Pacific Rim will take part in “Exercise Pacific Wave 08,” a two-day pre-arranged tsunami scenario designed to test the UNESCO-established Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System, the UN reported.
Exercise Pacific Wave 08, planned for October 28-30, will simulate a tsunami warning situation, […]

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King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía of Spain, visiting the pre-Columbian site of Huaca de la Luna in Trujillo today, arrived Sunday for a two-day stopover in Peru prior to attending the 18th Ibero-American Summit to be held October 29-31 in El Salvador.
The official visit, with an aim to strengthen the bilateral relationship between […]

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