An interview by Peru21 with Dr. Mary Penny, director of Peru’s Institute of Nutritional Research
By José Gabriel Chueca ——

The Institute of Nutritional Research, IIN, is one of Peru’s leading medical organizations. Founded in 1971, It is currently working on the Children of the Millennium project, as well as a vaccination campaign  to prevent cervical cancer.

The La Oroya smelter workers decided late Wednesday to lift their strike, giving the government and Doe Run 30 days to offer them acceptable solutions. Police and workers joined forces late into the night to clear rocks from the highway and roads around the smelter town. The strikers had blocked all traffic to and [...]

In a conciliatory move, after two months of telling indigenous communities that the government would not review legislation aimed to open up the Peruvian Amazon to more foreign investment, Peru’s Premier Yehude Simon asked Congress to repeal the controversial decrees by June 18.
“I understand that the members of Congress are upset,” said Simon. “But I ask [...]

The Minister of Women’s Affairs and Social Development, Carmen Vildoso, resigned from the Cabinet of Peru’s President Alan García late Monday evening, following violent clashes between police and indigenous protesters in Peru’s northern Amazon that left dozens of police and civilians dead.

Presidential Cabinet Chief Yehude Simon told lawmakers Monday that the leader of Peru’s largest Indigenous federation was holed up in the Nicarguan Embassy, protected by political asylum following a deadly melee with police in Peru’s northern jungle.

Indigenous communities in Peru’s Amazon, demanding the repeal of a series of decrees they say are promoting unchecked development in their territory, clashed with police on Friday, leaving up to 40 or more people dead, including at least 9 police officers and up to 28 indigenous protesters.

By Annie Thériault —–

The inspiration for a life-changing project came at a red light, four years ago.
When the Municipal Ballet’s prima ballerina, Vania Masías, drove to a stop at the traffic light- just one more car among the thousands crawling through Lima’s overcrowded streets - a group of leaping, jumping and break-dancing street youth caught [...]

By Annie Thériault —-
Thirty-nine years ago this Sunday, on May 31, 1970, an undersea earthquake off the coast of Casma and Chimbote, north of Lima, triggered one of the most cataclysmic avalanches in recorded history – wiping out the entire highland town of Yungay and most of its 25,000 inhabitants.
Around 3:23 PM, local time, while [...]

By Paul Goulder ~

In April ex-President Fujimori was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison and the long fight for justice by relatives of those killed at Cantuta and Barrios Altos, and who had absolutely no connection with terrorism, have seen some belated and grim reward. It has been called “un hito jurídico [...]

The uncontrolled dumping of sewage waste and tailings produced by more than 30,000 small-scale miners are causing widespread environmental damage in Lake Titicaca, the largest lake in South America and the highest commercially navigable lake in the world.