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Peru
Giant statue of Jesus Christ opened in Peru Telegraph 06/30/2011 | Desperate Americans Buy Kidneys From Peru Poor in Fatal TradeMichael Smith Bloomberg.com 05/12/2011 |
 One of the world's tallest statues of Jesus Christ has been inaugurated in Peru despite high level opposition and Facebook campaigns mocking it. |  Luis Picado’s mother remembers the day her son thought he had won the lottery. He came home to their tin-roofed cinder-block house in a Managua, Nicaragua, slum and said he’d found a way to escape poverty and start a new life in the United States. An American man had promised to give Picado, a 23-year-old high school dropout who worked as a construction laborer, a job and an apartment in New York if he’d donate one of his kidneys. He jumped at the deal, his mother says. |
Peruvian Judge Orders Release For Imprisoned New York Woman NY1 11/05/2010 | Peru battles rabid vampire bats after 500 people bitten BBC News 08/13/2010 |
 Prosecutors in Peru say they will appeal after a judge ordered on Friday the release of a New York woman convicted of aiding leftist rebels in the country. |  Peru's health ministry has sent emergency teams to a remote Amazon region to battle an outbreak of rabies spread by vampire bats. |
Peru Government Declares Cold Wave Emergency in 16 Regions Latin American Herald Tribune 07/25/2010 | Machu Picchu airlift rescues hundreds of tourists BBC News 01/28/2010 |
 The Peruvian government declared a state of emergency because of the cold wave gripping a number of districts in the nation’s 16 regions, according to an urgent decree published Saturday in the official gazette. |  About 1,400 tourists have been airlifted from near the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru following floods that destroyed road and rail links. |
Thousands of tourists stranded at Peru's Machu Picchu AFP 01/27/2010 | Helena Christensen Witnesses Impacts of Climate Change in Peru Oxfam America 09/03/2009 |
 LIMA — Peru used helicopters to airlift foreign tourists trapped by rain and mudslides that killed seven people in and around its famed Machu Picchu ruins, but frustrations grew among the more than 2,500 still stranded. |  Model and photographer Helena Christensen traveled with international humanitarian organization Oxfam to her mother's native country to witness and document the dramatic effects that climate change is having on poor people today in Peru. |
Peru to revoke laws after Amazon clashes 06/15/2009 | |
 Peru's Congress voted overwhelmingly to revoke two decrees that indigenous groups had said would result in the exploitation of their native lands for oil drilling, mining and logging. The 82-14 vote on Thursday with no abstentions came after five hours of intense debate. |  Peru's Prime Minister Yehude Simon said Monday he would ask parliament to revoke controversial decrees on foreign investment in the Amazon region that indigenous groups say impacts their claims on land. |
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