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Heavy security was ordered in case of attacks by the Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla group that has fought Peruvian governments since...
Garcia, the Peruvian president, said the drug summit "will represent our point of view on how to confront the escalation of violence that drug traffickers have unleashed in our countries, and also our perspective on the United States president's proposals...
...Peruvian officials fear Shining Path ranks will expand swiftly if the government succeeds in reducing the cocaine trade without providing alternate sources of income to peasants...
...remove potential obstacles. Thailand, India and Peru are possible sources. Douglas Tifft and his wife Bonnie MacAdam tried the agencies, avoided the lawyers and waited a year for a Korean baby before looking elsewhere. "The process can be heartbreaking," says Bonnie. But when they applied for a Peruvian baby, the phone call came six weeks later, and they soon boarded a plane for Lima. Last week Bonnie returned to New Hampshire with five-month-old Rosa. "Once you have the baby in your arms," she says, "it seems worth all the waiting, money, traveling and hassle...
...Janeiro bureau chief Laura Lopez and reporter John Maier, made its own treks through the region. Maier was struck by how virtually everyone in the region, politician and peasant alike, knew that the Amazon was the subject of intense international debate. In speaking with one poor farmer near the Peruvian border, Maier reports, "As soon as I began asking questions, the farmer said to me, 'Whose side are you on, the environmentalists' or ours?' " That question, Maier knew, has no simple answer...