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Rampant corruption, terrorist attacks and rising inflation were once the recurring nightmares of Peru. President Alan Garcia knows that well enough. His first administration, from 1985 to 1990, was pummelled by those problems. But, since taking office for a second time in July 2006, he appeared to be have successfully avoided those old horrors. Until last week...
...approval ratings in the capital Lima falling to 23% in mid-October, his lowest since taking office in July 2006. (As a point of comparison, George Bush has an approal rating of 24%.) The corruption and terrorism headlines may force Garcia's popularity down further. All in spite of Peru's booming economy. "I would not be surprised if Garcia dropped to 10%. Peru is certainly not in bad shape, it just seems that way to many people because we can't get Garcia's first government out of their heads," said Eduardo Farah, head of the national association...
...hypocritical for the U.S. to give Posada a pass while sentencing Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Ahmed Hamden, to 66 months in prison this month for providing material support to al-Qaeda. "By any reasonable definition, [Posada] is a terrorist," says Dennis Jett, a former U.S. ambassador to Peru and now a professor at Pennsylvania State University's international affairs school. "He may not be a threat to the U.S., but he is to the people he's [allegedly] been attacking...
...projects represent a vital source of government revenue for impoverished nations like Peru or Bolivia, but they may come at a high environmental cost. The reason much of the western Amazon remains intact - quite unlike the rainforest to the east - is simply because there are still relatively few roads into the forest. But oil and gas projects will require new roads, and roads destroy forests and damage wildlife habitats. Roads also invite in the most formidable agent of ecological disruption: humans. That means an influx of hunters and loggers, along with the heavy equipment and personnel needed for oil exploration...
...western Amazon isn't going to be sacrificed for oil. Just as important are the environmental impact assessments that can accurately gauge just how destructive a new oil or gas project might be, not just to the land that's being drilled, but also to adjacent areas - in Peru, 20 development zones overlap with protected areas. An accident in one zone could easily contaminate neighboring land...