Foreign Affairs Minister: Peru has invested $1.63 billion in cross-border development plan with Ecuador

Foreign Affairs Minister José Antonio García Belaunde told Congress on Friday that Peru has invested more than $1.63 billion in a bilateral plan with Ecuador to develop its northern border region. García Belaunde said Peru has invested in infrastructure projects to expand rural electrification, plumbing, and transportation, as well as social development projects focusing on [...]

Aguaruna and Huambisa Indians attack and destroy Dorato Resources’ mining camp in Peru’s Cordillera del Condor

Fearing environmental contamination of their rivers and land, Aguaruna and Huambisa Indians trekked for a week from the Cenepa community in Peru’s northeastern jungle and attacked and destroyed Dorato Resources’ El Tambo mining camp. The unoccupied mining camp has been destroyed, said Zebelio Kayap Jempekit, an Aguaruna-Huambisa leader who claims that copper, gold and uranium [...]