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...This is what I find most exciting,” says Rick Calixto, director of Harvard’s Licensing Program. “Alumni and students call us to notify us of unauthorized use of our trademark at, say, colleges in Ecuador and on products in Peru.” After covering the office operation fees, the trademark office donates all royalties to undergraduate financial aid initiatives. So don’t feel so guilty about buying one of those t-shirts...at least you’re helping to pay for a fellow student’s education...
...PETA against the consumption of meat? Do you want us all to be vegetarian? Jose Ortega, LIMA, PERU...
...reached outside his party and picked a left-leaning governor as the new Cabinet chief. But the scandal has not faded. Congress has appointed a special committee to investigate 17 oil and gas exploration contracts awarded in September, including the five given the Norwegian company in a consortium with Peru's state-owned oil company, as well as 36 others handed out in the past two years. The head of the committee, Rep. Daniel Abugattas, said he expects to find a pattern of deceit. "The government has been giving away our natural resources to the lowest bidders under the guise...
...terrorist bombing was a response to a major military campaign started in August to eliminate Shining Path positions from a jungle-mountain stretch known as the Apurimac-Ene River Valley or VRAE. Besides housing the Shining Path, the VRAE is also the second most important area in Peru for coca, from which cocaine is produced. The VRAE has close to 40,000 coca plants and can produce around 100 tons of cocaine annually...
...with anti-inflationary policies, cutting expenses and reducing government, which seem oddly out of touch with the rhetoric about the country's economy, which is otherwise booming. The economy has expanded by nearly 10% monthly since Garcia took office and indicators even during the international financial meltdown look good. Peru, for the first time in his modern history, now has more international reserves than it owes on its foreign debt. Too bad none of that good news appears to be rubbing off on the President...