http://www.mail.com/locations/23596-peru.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/23596-peru.html http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2072158-bolivias-challenge-making-coca-palatable.html VILLA TUNARI, Bolivia (AP) — Since taking office seven years ago, President Evo Morales has tried to persuade the world that he has no tolerance for cocaine and that Bolivia's thousands of acres of coca plants can be dedicated to such traditional uses as fighting fatigue as well as whipping up wholesome treats like sweet breads and coca puffed snacks. The... Wed, 08 May 2013 23:04:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2072158-bolivias-challenge-making-coca-palatable.html 2013-05-08T23:04:48Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2055834-bolivia-president-expels-us-government-aid-agency.html LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — President Evo Morales acted on a longtime threat Wednesday and expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development for allegedly seeking to undermine Bolivia's leftist government, and he harangued Washington's top diplomat for calling the Western Hemisphere the "backyard" of the U.S. Bolivia's ABI state news agency said USAID was... Thu, 02 May 2013 00:54:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2055834-bolivia-president-expels-us-government-aid-agency.html 2013-05-02T00:54:53Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2031178-rough-inauguration-day-venezuelan-leader.html CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Inauguration day could have gone better for the man picked to lead Venezuela's socialist revolution for the next six years. Hours before President Nicolas Maduro's swearing-in, his government announced it would allow a full audit of the razor-thin vote that the opposition says he won by fraud, which analysts said was likely a bow... Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:31:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2031178-rough-inauguration-day-venezuelan-leader.html 2013-04-20T01:31:30Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2030178-election-council-to-audit-vote-venezuela.html CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Government supporters began filling the streets of Venezuela's capital early Friday to celebrate the inauguration of their leader, even as opponents greeted officials' surprise announcement they will accept an audit of the disputed vote that handed a narrow margin of victory to the heir of late President Hugo Chavez. Opposition c... Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:41:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2030178-election-council-to-audit-vote-venezuela.html 2013-04-19T13:41:24Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2029370-venezuela-crackdown-deemed-worst-years.html CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — National Guard troops beat dozens of opposition supporters inside a barracks for refusing to accept the government-certified electoral victory of Hugo Chavez's heir, a leading human rights lawyer charged Thursday in what he called Venezuela's worst political repression in six years. Alfredo Romero said his group's lawyers also co... Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:21:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2029370-venezuela-crackdown-deemed-worst-years.html 2013-04-19T01:21:58Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2015310-barrick-suffering-big-setbacks-latin-america.html SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A Chilean court's halt to construction of Barrick Gold Corp.'s $8 billion, border-straddling mine on the high spine of the Andes is only the latest setback in Latin America for the world's largest gold miner. Barrick also faces growing environmental resistance in Argentina, which shares the Pascua-Lama mine project, and the Dominica... Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:22:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2015310-barrick-suffering-big-setbacks-latin-america.html 2013-04-12T12:22:55Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1981238-peru-criticized-avoidable-military-draft.html LIMA, Peru (AP) — Facing a shortage of recruits, Peru's government has reinstated selective, obligatory military service. But it can be avoided by paying a $700 fine, prompting accusations that what is really being imposed is a draft for the poor. Military service had been voluntary since 1998, but meager wages, scant job training and a lack of other ince... Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:29:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1981238-peru-criticized-avoidable-military-draft.html 2013-03-26T23:29:15Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1979142-peru-declares-amazon-oil-contamination-emergency.html LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's government declared an environmental state of emergency on Monday in a remote Amazon jungle region it says has been affected by years of contamination at the country's most productive oil fields, which are currently operated by Argentina-based Pluspetrol. Indigenous groups in the Pastaza River basin near the Ecuador border have be... Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:01:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1979142-peru-declares-amazon-oil-contamination-emergency.html 2013-03-26T03:01:31Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1970174-ap-photos-working-class-beach-perus-capital.html LIMA , Peru (AP) — While Lima's elite passes its summer weekends in gated beach enclaves south of the Peruvian capital, the working class jams by the thousands on a single municipal beach of grayish-brown sands and gentle waves. The only barrier to entry to Agua Dulce beach is two dollars, the price of bus fare to and from the beach some 12 miles (20 kilo... Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:48:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1970174-ap-photos-working-class-beach-perus-capital.html 2013-03-21T15:48:28Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1970078-photos-working-class-beach-perus-capital.html LIMA , Peru (AP) — While Lima's elite passes its summer weekends in gated beach enclaves south of the Peruvian capital, the working class jams by the thousands on a single municipal beach of grayish-brown sands and gentle waves. The only barrier to entry to Agua Dulce beach is two dollars, the price of bus fare to and from the beach some 12 miles (20 kilo... Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:26:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1970078-photos-working-class-beach-perus-capital.html 2013-03-21T15:26:19Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1902962-boom-quinoa-demand-stresses-bolivia-highlands.html LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The growing global demand for quinoa by health food enthusiasts isn't just raising prices for the Andean "super grain" and living standards among Bolivian farmers. Quinoa fever is running up against physical limits. The scramble to grow more is prompting Bolivian farmers to abandon traditional land management practices, endangering ... Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:15:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1902962-boom-quinoa-demand-stresses-bolivia-highlands.html 2013-02-21T00:15:08Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1903818-limas-reformist-mayor-battles-to-stay-office.html LIMA, Peru (AP) — After becoming the first woman ever elected to run Peru's capital, Susana Villaran did what no modern predecessor had dared: She tried to bring order and transparency to a metropolis plagued by widespread corruption and a chaotic, patronage-thick transit system swollen with aging, smog-belching taxis and buses. The 63-year-old career hum... Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:06:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1903818-limas-reformist-mayor-battles-to-stay-office.html 2013-02-20T19:06:24Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1894188-swedish-photographer-wins-world-press-photo-award.html AMSTERDAM (AP) — Swedish photographer Paul Hansen won the 2012 World Press Photo award Friday for newspaper Dagens Nyheter with a picture of two Palestinian children killed in an Israeli missile strike being carried to their funeral. The picture shows a group of men marching the dead bodies through a narrow street in Gaza City. The victims, a brother and ... Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:27:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1894188-swedish-photographer-wins-world-press-photo-award.html 2013-02-15T14:27:22Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1868014-peru-seeks-to-protect-fish-with-big-impact.html CALLAO, Peru (AP) — The ocean off Peru boasts the world's richest fishing grounds, but Taurino Querevalu is returning to port empty again after a hunt for Peruvian anchovy, cursing his empty nets and an increasingly stingy sea. A little more than a decade ago, Querevalu's 8-ton wooden boat rarely returned with an empty hold as it does on this day motoring... Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:55:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1868014-peru-seeks-to-protect-fish-with-big-impact.html 2013-02-04T23:55:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1865304-us-military-expands-drug-war-latin-america.html The crew members aboard the USS Underwood could see through their night goggles what was happening on the fleeing go-fast boat: Someone was dumping bales. When the Navy guided-missile frigate later dropped anchor in Panamanian waters on that sunny August morning, Ensign Clarissa Carpio, a 23-year-old from San Francisco, climbed into the inflatable dinghy ... Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:36:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1865304-us-military-expands-drug-war-latin-america.html 2013-02-03T16:36:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1845026-chile-aims-to-focus-summit-brighter-side.html SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — European, Latin American and Caribbean leaders gathering for this weekend's economic summit will likely see only one side of Chile — the polished, upscale country where tourists and investors stay in five-star hotels in a sparklingly clean financial district nicknamed "Sanhattan," well away from Santiago's slums. Hundreds of securit... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 05:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1845026-chile-aims-to-focus-summit-brighter-side.html 2013-01-25T05:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1830096-canadian-peruvian-gold-prospectors-kidnapped.html BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Leftist rebels kidnapped five gold prospectors doing exploratory drilling for a Canadian company before dawn Friday in a northern province of Colombia, officials said. One abductee was from Canada, two from Peru and two from Colombia. Toronto-based Braeval Mining Corp. said the three company employees and two consultants were worki... Sat, 19 Jan 2013 01:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1830096-canadian-peruvian-gold-prospectors-kidnapped.html 2013-01-19T01:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1813914-partial-victory-bolivia-coca-fight.html LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Evo Morales' global crusade to decriminalize the coca leaf, launched in 2006 after the coca growers' union leader was first elected president of Bolivia, has finally attained a partial, if largely, symbolic victory. A year ago, Bolivia temporarily withdrew from the 1961 U.N. convention on narcotic drugs because it classifies coca le... Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1813914-partial-victory-bolivia-coca-fight.html 2013-01-11T19:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1785518-correction-peru-quake-unreadiness-story.html LIMA, Peru (AP) — In a story that moved Dec. 9 and 23 about earthquake readiness in Lima, Peru, The Associated Press incorrectly listed the year and the magnitude of a quake that killed about 70,000 people. The 7.9-magnitude Peru quake occurred in 1970. A corrected version of the story is below: The earthquake all but flattened colonial Lima, the shaking ... Mon, 24 Dec 2012 16:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1785518-correction-peru-quake-unreadiness-story.html 2012-12-24T16:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1784414-perus-capital-highly-vulnerable-to-major-quake.html LIMA, Peru (AP) — The earthquake all but flattened colonial Lima, the shaking so violent that people tossed to the ground couldn't get back up. Minutes later, a 50-foot (15-meter) wall of Pacific Ocean crashed into the adjacent port of Callao, killing all but 200 of its 5,000 inhabitants. Bodies washed ashore for weeks. Plenty of earthquakes have shaken P... Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1784414-perus-capital-highly-vulnerable-to-major-quake.html 2012-12-23T15:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1752892-booze-smokes-agenda-quirky-govt-group.html BELTSVILLE, Md. (AP) — Deep in a secure laboratory just outside Washington sits the federal government's heaviest smoker. It is a half-ton hulk of a machine, all brushed aluminum and gasping smoke holes, like a retrofit of equipment used on an Industrial Revolution production line. It can smoke 20 cigarettes at once and conclude which are unsafe because t... Sat, 08 Dec 2012 14:29:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1752892-booze-smokes-agenda-quirky-govt-group.html 2012-12-08T14:29:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1739666-peru-asks-un-court-to-set-sea-border-with-chile.html THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Peru asked the U.N.'s highest court Monday to set a maritime border between it and Chile, in a case that could greatly expand the amount of rich seas under Peru's control off the two Andean neighbors' Pacific coasts. Peru launched the case at the International Court of Justice in 2008, arguing that a maritime boundary was nev... Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1739666-peru-asks-un-court-to-set-sea-border-with-chile.html 2012-12-03T18:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1733862-spain-shipwreck-treasure-time.html MADRID (AP) — Spanish cultural officials allowed a first peek Friday at some of the 16 tons (14.5 metric tons) of shipwreck treasure worth an estimated $500 million that a U.S. salvage company gave up this year after a five-year ownership dispute. Only a tiny portion of the haul from the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, a galleon that sank off Portugal's A... Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:16:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1733862-spain-shipwreck-treasure-time.html 2012-11-30T13:16:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1728960-peru-radio-host-broadcasting-kids-97.html LIMA, Peru (AP) — It was the golden age of radio and World War II still raged when Maruja Venegas began broadcasting a show for Peru's children. Sixty-eight years later, her "Radio Club Infantil" is still on the air, making the 97-year-old Venegas the globe's longest-running radio personality, according to Guinness World Records. "The children of yesterda... Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:34:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1728960-peru-radio-host-broadcasting-kids-97.html 2012-11-28T17:34:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1719018-scientists-galapagos-tortoise-revived.html LIMA, Peru (AP) — Lonesome George, the late reptile prince of the Galapagos Islands, may be dead, but scientists now say he may not be the last giant tortoise of his species after all. Researchers say they may be able to resurrect the Pinta Island subspecies by launching a cross-breeding program with 17 other tortoises found to contain genetic material si... Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1719018-scientists-galapagos-tortoise-revived.html 2012-11-22T21:17:00Z