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There was no doubt in Hiram Bingham's mind that he had stumbled onto something mystical in the summer of 1911, when he discovered the dazzling Incan settlement now known as Machu Picchu. He was convinced that the remote Peruvian outpost dotted with temples was a sacred city, the birthplace and final stronghold of the Incas, where virgins sought sanctuary and priests worshipped the sun god. The charismatic Bingham--a Yale University archaeologist, later a Connecticut Governor and U.S. Senator and much later a model for Hollywood's Indiana Jones--announced, in a series of magazine articles and best-selling...
Those tip-trading sessions proved useful on Dec. 22, when the two flight attendants boarded Flight 63 from Paris to Miami. Although both live in Florida, each holds French citizenship, speaks French fluently (Jones spent part of her childhood in Antibes, Peruvian-born Moutardier is married to a Frenchman) and flew the Paris route often. Flight 63 was jammed with 185 passengers that pre-Christmas Saturday morning. Baggage problems delayed takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport an hour, but everything seemed routine once the plane was airborne. Then a passenger aroused the flight attendants' curiosity. He was a "huge...
...laws brought striking results. Banking regulators publicly reprimanded several Swiss banks?by name?for keeping accounts belonging to relatives of the former Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha. And it was the Swiss in the autumn of 2000 who tipped off Peru that Vladimiro Lenin Montesinos Torres, the former head of Peruvian intelligence, had stashed away about $114 million in five Swiss accounts. Judicial authorities in Zurich blocked the accounts after the banks themselves reported their suspicions. The Swiss ambassador in Lima then informed the Peruvian government and urged it to open an international criminal investigation, with which Switzerland cooperated. In addition...
...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 to a commission of investigation, 10% said they had agreed to be sterilized after promises of food, free operations and medicines. Others said...
...first Peruvian president of indigenous origin, Toledo said he has always been surrounded by the devastating effects of poverty, including the premature deaths of seven of his 16 siblings...