Focus Ventures Ltd. announce that drilling has commenced at the Bayovar 12 phosphate project. All necessary approvals for the drill program have been received from the Peruvian Authorities and two drills are currently on site.

Tensions at Newmont Mining Corp's Conga project have been reduced, Peruvian Vice President Marisol Espinoza told Reuters on Saturday, but local communities still have doubts about the stalled copper gold mine.

Peru is the third-largest country in South America, with a population of 30 million and a GDP per capita of US$6,800. It is an emerging market that grew 7% a year on average in the past eight years. Unlike the U.S., before 2004, Peru had never been a significant consumer of natural gas.

The Peruvian project, the first of its kind in South America, was the one that faced major controversy over whether or not the nation should export natural gas.

 The natural gas revolution in Peru had a name, and its name was Camisea.

Camisea hydrocarbon deposits are located 500 kilometers east of Lima, Peru's capital city, in the Ucayali Basin, in the Peruvian region of Cusco, in the southcentral jungle of the country.

Humala will travel to Chile to attend a farewell ceremony for outgoing president Sebastian Pi�era as well as inauguration festivities for Bachelet.  

The Andean city of Cusco in southern Peru has received assistance from the World Bank to strengthen local climate change adaptation planning.  

The town of La Merced offers many alternatives of entertainment for jungle lovers. The best thing: it�s only seven hours away from Lima. Trips by bus are highly recommended.

Located in the province of Chanchamayo, in the middle of the selva central (Jun�n, Peru), La Merced, a small town of approximately 20,000 people, has a very well-deserved reputation of being the right place to visit the Peruvian rainforest for the first time and enjoy all its natural beauties.