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...TRIAL GRANTED. For LORI BERENSON, 30, American imprisoned in Peru; after serving almost five years of a life sentence for treason, ordered by a military tribunal; in Lima. Peruvian authorities say new evidence shows Berenson was not a terrorist but an accessory in a radical group's attack plan. If convicted, she could receive a minimum sentence of 20 years...
...supply of name your commodity and then using the efficiency of their vast network to beat most prices. They arrived at this model back in the mid-1980s almost out of desperation, when crude-oil prices had collapsed, natural-gas deregulation had thrown that market into chaos, and the Peruvian government had just nationalized Enron's offshore properties. Figuring they might as well leverage deregulation instead of succumbing to it--call it business judo--Skilling, a McKinsey & Co. consultant at the time, came up with a plan called the Gas Bank, to buy up reserves of natural gas, then package...
...past year, resorted to increasingly populist and authoritarian measures to ensure that he stays in power, including rewriting the constitution to allow himself a third term in office," says McGirk. "So a lot of the goodwill he earned over eight years has drained away, both in Washington and among Peruvians themselves." Indeed, there is very little difference between Fujimori and his challenger on economic policy, although Toledo is promising political reforms. But Toledo's withdrawal strips the runoff election of any meaning, and that forces Washington, and Peru's Latin American neighbors, to either live with a Peruvian president whose...
...certainly made a difference in Marco Antonio Mamani's life. Two years ago, Mamani, 33, was a jewelry craftsman in Cuzco, "selling what I could on a plastic sheet by the central square." Then a notice for a seminar on e-commerce by the Peruvian Science Network (rcp), a nonprofit organization that has spurred the launch of more than 500 public Internet centers across the country, piqued his interest. Taking advantage of rcp's free technical assistance and low use rates, Mamani set up a site hawking his jewelry online. Today he is a cyberentrepreneur. Nearly...
...couple of important ways, Mamani is unusual. As a Peruvian, he is outside the main markets of Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Brazil, which together account for more than 75% of Latin American Web users (Brazil alone has 55% of them). And while the money he makes is enough to support his wife and three children, it does not place him anywhere near what Latin American marketers call "Class A or Class B"--the wealthy or at least upper middle class that makes up the bulk of online traffic...