Tag: Peru

• Thursday, May 10th 2012 - 04:43 UTC

  Warmer waters and lack of food most probable cause of pelicans’ death in Peru

  

  The increase in water temperature to the north of Peru kept away the schools of fish on which marine birds feed causing the massive death of pelicans recorded in that area, which could extend to other parts of Peru, if conditions persist.

• Wednesday, May 9th 2012 - 07:50 UTC

  Gold becomes Peru’s main export item in the first quarter of 2012

  

  Peruvian gold sales totalled 2.57 billion dollars in the first quarter of this year, making the commodity the country’s top export, the National Mining, Petroleum and Energy Society, SNMPE, announced.

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2012 - 15:06 UTC

  Peru could find itself snared in the Falklands/Malvinas dispute

  

  By W. Alex Sanchez, Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs - Thirty years after a bloody war between the United Kingdom and Argentina, the longstanding territorial conflict over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands continues to simmer.

• Thursday, April 26th 2012 - 05:59 UTC

  Brazil investing heavily in developing Peruvian natural gas sector

  

  Three of Brazil's leading companies said on Wednesday they are increasing investment and exploration in Peru's natural gas sector as the country prepares to build a new pipeline and petrochemical plants.

• Saturday, April 21st 2012 - 07:25 UTC

  Peru gives conditional approval to major controversial mining project

  

  Peruvian President Ollanta Humala said on Friday that US-based Newmont Mining should carry out a more ambitious environmental mitigation plan if it hopes to build its 4.8 billion dollars Conga gold mine project.

• Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 06:14 UTC

  Nine ‘illegal’ Peruvian miners rescued after six days trapped underground

  

  Nine Peruvian miners emerged into the daylight Wednesday morning after six days trapped in a collapsed mine. State television showed the miners leaving the Cabeza de Negro mine, each supported by two rescuers. They wore sunglasses to protect their eyes from the light, after spending so much time in darkness.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 15:52 UTC

  Hundreds of dead dolphins in Peruvian beaches; offshore acoustic testing leading suspect

  

  Conservationists counted 615 dead dolphins along a 150 kilometer stretch of beaches in Peru, a wildlife group said Wednesday, and the leading suspect is acoustic testing offshore by oil companies.

• Tuesday, March 27th 2012 - 11:34 UTC

  Peru ‘one step away’ from ensuring cheap gas supply for the domestic market

  

  President Ollanta Humala announced Peru was “one step away” from reaching a deal with the consortium developing Block 88 of the huge Camisea gas field. The deal would ensure cheap fuel for Peru, for the next 25 to 30 years, reported the official news agency Andina.

• Monday, March 26th 2012 - 09:36 UTC

  Peruvian president joins the controversy on the turning back of HMS Montrose

  

  Peruvian president Ollanta Humala supported Foreign Affairs minister Rafael Roncagliolo following the impasse with the British embassy in Lima that strongly criticized the last minute cancelling of the protocol visit of HMS Montrose to El Callao.

• Friday, March 23rd 2012 - 00:34 UTC

  Populism very much alive in Latam subtly converted to ‘delegative’ democracy

  

  Populism in Latinamerica has moved from the dictatorships of past decades to the so called “delegative” democracies such as those of Venezuela and Argentina, according to a group of Latam intellectuals meeting in Peru in an international seminar, “Latin America: opportunities and challenges”.