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FINDERS KEEPERS? More than 90 years after a Yale explorer discovered the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu, the university has agreed to return hundreds of excavated artifacts to the Peruvian government...
...wacky bits kept coming. Shortly after the devastating earthquake that leveled the Peruvian city of Pisco, cans of tuna bearing pictures of Chavez and former leftist Peruvian presidential candidate Ollanta Humala were handed out as relief aid. The Venezuelan government said it had no idea how the cans got there; state television even interviewed a pro-Chavez artist who bizarrely suggested that the tuna cans were, in fact, a "racist" statement inciting support for the invasion of Iraq. That was too much for the show's moderator, who replied that they were actually no more than tuna cans. Still, this...
...Peruvian government has mobilized national and internationally to address the crisis. President Alan Garcia has taken charge, moving the presidential office to an air force base in Pisco and gathering his Cabinet to work with him there. He welcomed Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, who flew down on Sunday to personally assess the damage and provide Garcia with tips on reconstruction. Early estimates put the price tag for Pisco alone at around $500 million...
...evening approached in the Peruvian capital of Lima on Wednesday, Carlos Lagos suddenly thought he was witnessing the end. At 6:40 pm (7:40 EDT) his apartment building began to sway and glass panes started popping out of windows, crashing down to the sidewalks below. The facades of elegant colonial mansions began shedding their plaster adornments...
Sarah McCall, a Peace Corps veteran who since March has led six Globe Aware trips in Costa Rica and Peru, recalls how her groups constructed mud-and-brick stoves for 24 Peruvian families in San Pedro de Casta to save fuel and keep harmful smoke out of adobe homes. The project was the brainchild of municipal officials. "We never go in and say that we had this idea, and we want to do this," McCall explains. Instead, she and other leaders check in with the locals to see what the community needs, then dispatch volunteers to do the legwork. Voluntourism...