Juliaca airport authorities look to resume operations following protests

The concessionaire of Juliaca’s Inca Manco Capac airport in Peru’s Puno region, Aeropuertos Andinos del Peru (AAP), has begun work on resuming operations following a deadly clash between police and anti-mining protesters last week that shut down the airport, state news agency Andina reported. AAP plans to resume operations in coordination with civil aviation authority [...]

Peruvian D.A.’s son lynched and burned alive by Juliaca residents

A local district attorney’s son was beaten and burned alive in Peru’s southern highland city of Juliaca by an angry vigilante mob who apparently mistook him for a local criminal. Jack Briceño Ochoa, 27 — a medical student in Russia — died Sunday following a 10-hour attack , which left him with second and third [...]

City of Juliaca launches quinoa consumption campaign to tackle malnutrition

The highland city of Juliaca and local schools launched a campaign this week, aimed to increase children’s consumption of quinoa – a grain-like seed crop – in a concerted effort to tackle malnutrition in the region. “Nowadays we export quinoa to North America, Japan, Germany, while we are negligent about domestic nutrition,” said the Director [...]

Bus collision leaves 23 dead and 30 injured near Peru’s Lake Titicaca

Two buses speeding along a highway in the southeastern Andean region of Puno violently crashed into each other, killing both drivers and at least 21 other people upon impact. The head-on collision – which killed 23 and left more than 30 people injured – occurred Thursday morning on a mountainous roadway linking the cities of Juliaca and [...]

Peruvian authorities seize more than 6,300 tons of highly toxic mine tailings in Juliaca

Peruvian Tourism and Ecological Police in Juliaca, the largest city and capital of Peru’s highland San Román province, have seized more than 6,300 tons of highly toxic mine tailings in 2008, said Juliaca Police Chief Andrés Apaza Machaca. “We have worked hard and well this year and that is why we have seized this large quantity [...]