FAO rushes aid to poor Peruvian farmers

Amid a world food crisis, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is helping poor Peruvian farmers confront a cold spell threat called "El Friaje". This friaje phenomenon "involves a combination of unseasonable low temperatures, frosts, snow and hail that damages crops...

Peruvian Alan Garcia and Bolivian Evo Morales to meet

Amid distancing bilateral moments, the presidents of Peru and Bolivia - Alan Garcia and Evo Morales- are to meet. Both leaders are confronting tense domestic situations. While Alan Garcia is confronting opposition to his neo liberal economic program, Evo Morales is face a...

Peruvian workers defend Bolivian Evo Morales

Following acrimonious exchanges between Presidents of Peru and Boliva- Alan Garcia and Evo Morales-  over the set up of an American military base, some Peruvian workers had their saying. They denied Evo Morales was helping them organise a national strike. "Peruvian...

Meteorite Illness May Be Collective Psychosis

The experts pretty well agree that there was no radiation from the meteorite that struck the little hamlet in Peru last week, leaving a big crater, an unpleasant smell and terrified villagers.  Many people reported feeling ill with headaches and nausea after going to see...

Yale to return Peruvian artefacts

"Yale University has agreed to return to Peru thousands of Inca relics that were excavated at Machu Picchu from 1911-15 by a history professor, Hiram Bingham. Peru demanded the artefacts back last year, saying it agreed to their removal on condition they would be...