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...debate on the topic of transnational adoptions hosted by the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies last night in the Barker Center. “We should promote international adoption and work simultaneously to promote global justice,” said Bartholet, an adoptive parent of two Peruvian children. “We are not going to deal with the wrong of injustice and poverty by eliminating the benefit to children who do well by adoption.” Ortiz, who worked for a variety of non-governmental organizations on children’s rights before joining...
...GRANTED. To ALBERTO FUJIMORI, 67, scandal-tainted former Peruvian President; a Peruvian passport, opening the possibility of a return to his native country for the first time since 2000; in Tokyo. Fujimori's diplomatic passport was invalidated after he fled to Japan following the disintegration of his government in 2000 over allegations of corruption. Born in Peru to Japanese immigrants, Fujimori has said he plans to return and run in the country's April election, although Peru's Congress has banned him from public office until...
Number of people killed in the crash last week of a Peruvian airliner in a marsh near the Pucallpa airport...
Whatever their other differences, U.S. and Peruvian officials are united in the war against drugs. Joint U.S.-Peruvian antinarcotics teams have recently taken out of service 28 airfields used to fly coca leaves to Colombia for processing. Government estimates indicate that eradication of coca plants last year nearly doubled. "We are a long way from getting a handle on the problem," says a U.S. official. "But the program is not doing too badly...
...been there before--in a bind that is, and maybe even in another life. On location in the Peruvian Andes, Shirley MacLaine, 51, found herself and her script embroiled in an intercultural tussle involving extraterrestrials and ancient monuments. (No, Steven Spielberg is not the producer.) The project is Out on a Limb, a five-hour ABC mini-series for November based on her 1983 autobiography of the same title. Citing passages where MacLaine suggests that Machu Picchu and the giant desert drawings known as the Nazca Lines were made by visitors from outer space rather than by the Peruvians...