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...June the U.S., working with three environmental groups, canceled $5.5 million of Peru's foreign debt. In exchange, Peru will extend protection to 27.5 million acres of tropical rain forest containing pink river dolphins, jaguars, scarlet macaws and giant water lilies. Nongovernment groups will monitor the protected areas to make sure the regulations are enforced. "It's a public-private partnership in the best sense of the word," says Stuart Irvin, an attorney with Covington & Burling in Washington who gave pro bono legal advice on this deal and similar swaps. "Everyone comes out a winner...
Wolcowitz said his office may also work on expanding the limited number of Harvard Summer School classes that are taught abroad by Harvard Faculty. Currently these programs include the Italian Language and Culture program in Calabria and Sicily, and the Latin American Literature and History program in Cuzco, Peru...
...enough to have made it into this week's presidential runoff vote in the new parliament, facing front runner Gonzalo Sanchez, a former President. More than that, Evo-speak--"The drug war is just a U.S. excuse to control our countries"--resonates beyond Bolivia's borders. Next door in Peru, irate coca farmers have successfully pressured the government to suspend eradication. In Colombia, the coca crop has grown fivefold in five years, to more than 400,000 acres, despite almost $1 billion in U.S. eradication funds. Authorities now say they will spray only "industrial-size" coca fields and not those...
...Secretary of State Colin Powell, who praised the Fund at his Senate confirmation hearings-and for his State Department, which said a May fact-finding mission found no evidence the fund "knowingly supported or participated in the management of a program of coercive abortion and forced sterilizations." PERU Family Planning More than 200,000 men and women were pressured into being sterilized by the government of former President Alberto Fujimori, an official Peruvian report revealed. Health Minister Fernando Carbone said the Fujimori government pursued its family planning program through a campaign of lies and threats. Of 510 people giving evidence...
...really helped people on the road, who can’t access telnet,” said Let’s Go Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia book editor Megan M. Brumagim ’04, who said her researcher-writers prefer Webmail over other web-based email services. “They don’t have to worry about signing up to another Hotmail account to communicate with...