Word: peru
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Here's $3,000. Now scram! That's the offer that Japan made on April 1 to unemployed foreigners of Japanese ancestry. These immigrants, mostly from Brazil and Peru, had previously obtained special visas to do manufacturing work in Japan for companies like Toyota. With the number of available jobs at a six-year low, the nation can no longer afford to pay them unemployment benefits and is asking them to leave...
Alberto Fujimori was nothing if not hands-on during his decade as President of Peru. In January 1997, in the midst of the hostage ordeal at the Japanese embassy in Lima that dragged on for four months, "Fuji," as Peruvians called him, took TIME on a ride around the capital in his Toyota 4x4. His aim was to demonstrate that he, not the Tupac Amaru guerrillas who were holding 72 civilians (including Fujimori's brother) at the embassy residence, who enjoyed the support of the country's poor. At one shantytown he rolled down his window and basked...
...recently as January 2009, of approximately 14,000 that had been stolen, slightly more than 8,000 have been recovered or are in various stages of being returned to the Iraqi government. In December of 2008, three Iraqi antiquities were recovered in Peru. They haven't been returned to the government yet, but they have been recovered. That fact that they were discovered in Peru highlights a disturbing new development. Recovery was much easier when the markets were limited to New York, London, Paris and Tokyo. Which is what they've been for the last several decades...
...what we're seeing now in the last couple of years [are new markets in] Dubai, Bahrain, Lebanon, Peru. This is a challenge for the international law enforcement community. We had a comfort zone when we knew it was going to New York, London, Paris and Tokyo. But now that those markets have expanded, it's a problem...
Every time a 13-year-old in rural Peru or Tuvalu touches a keyboard, she bypasses the Industrial Revolution and rockets into the Information Age. She can network, learn calculus, study crop-growing techniques, or e-mail a hospital for advice on illness treatment. She can access a wealth of knowledge beyond the horizon fortune has aligned for her. But how much does it really help? Lately, efforts to bring computers to youth in developing areas have been assaulted as ineffective, or even worse—impulsively imperialistic. Last month, One Laptop per Child—an NGO aiming...