Journal Peru

Peru’s Royal Tombs of Sipán museum, located near the city of Chiclayo in the northern region of Lambayeque, is hoping to attract about 5,500 national and international visitors over the 4-day Easter holiday weekend, said Almanzor Toro, a museum spokesperson. He detailed that in the first quarter of 2007, nearly 7,000 people have visited the [...]

Peruvian president Alan Garcia said on Monday that his government will neither surrender nor yield to blackmail in its fight against the illegal expansion of coca cultivation and drug trafficking, and ordered “to bomb and machine-gun” maceration pits and clandestine airports used to transport cocaine. During the inauguration of 2nd Inter-American Forum for Security and [...]

During Peru’s 2006 elections, a giant billboard of presidential candidate Alan Garcia towered over the La Marina Avenue in Arequipa, promising “potable water for all”. The residents of Villa Ecologica would be most pleased to see that particular election promise kept. In one of the newest and poorest of the pueblos jovenes on the city [...]

(official press release by Survival International London, UK) The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has urged the Peruvian government to protect some of the world’s last uncontacted Indian tribes. Little is known about the tribes except for their obvious desire to have no contact with the outside world. One of the tribes is known [...]

Peru’s leader of the oppositional Nationalistic Party, Ollanta Humala, announced on Sunday that his party is organizing a march towards towards the border with Chile for Wednesday, April 4th, to celebrate what he called an “act of affirmation of Peru’s national sovereignty”. Wednesday marks the eve of the 128th anniversary (April 5th, 1879) of the [...]