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Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank Group highlighted that Peru has made significant progress in increasing universal heatlh coverage which has reduced both maternal and child mortality over the last years. |
 Peru's President Ollanta Humala has announced a major investment funding on the social sector, mainly on specific sectors such as health and education, as well as on other priority areas including public safety and infrastructure.
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 For centuries, tales of Peruvian gold have enticed European investors. In the 16th century, reports of the wealth in the then Inca Empire lured Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro to what is now modern-day Peru. Peru's mining projects take place in the poorest, most remote parts of the country; places where the community's memory of the 500-years of oppression haven't yet been replaced by the fruits of the country's two-decade-old economic boom.
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 Peruvian exports of cacao and its derivates amounted to US$ 35.6 million in the first quarter of the year, a 79% increase from the same period a year earlier, the Association of Exporters (ADEX) reported.
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Villa El Salvador is a section of this capital city of 9 million residents that lies between the Pacific Ocean and the coastal highlands. The community climbs up and rolls down steep slopes in a seemingly endless expanse of densely packed rooftops made of plastic, sheet metal, and wood. The unpaved streets, lined by the one-story walls of two-room homes, have no names. Still there is order and tidiness to Villa El Salvador, which numbers tens of thousands of residents. Bodegas offer snacks and boxed milk at many of the street corners. The crosses and monuments of a cemetery occupy a space as large as two soccer fields. Laundry dries in the breeze. Children dressed in black and gold school uniforms wait for school buses. And dawn breaks every morning with the muted light of the sun behind winter's thick clouds and the sound of the honking horns of the city's blue water trucks. |
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President Ollanta Humala said the government will shift toward promoting other crops after a current policy of ripping out coca-leaf plants in a main growing area hasn't worked out as hoped.
Peru is one of the world's largest producers of coca leaf, which is used to make cocaine.
In a televised interview late Sunday, Mr. Humala said the Ministry of Agriculture will take the lead in promoting the planting of new crops in the coca-leaf-growing area known as the Vrae.
"We are relaunching a new strategy in the Vrae," Mr. Humala said.
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Peru's president says he is indefinitely postponing plans to forcibly eradicate coca fields in the world's top cocaine-producing valley.
President Ollanta Humala's announcement in a televised interview Sunday night came a week after he fired his drug czar, Carmen Masias.
She had announced in January that a militarized eradication effort - half-funded by the United States - would begin this year in the Apurimac, Ene and Mantauro river valley.
Critics said that strategy would only help drug-funded Shining Path rebels based in the region turn its coca-growers against authorities, with violent results. Coca is the remote valley's lone cash crop and growers have already mounted protests and threatened resistance.
Humala said that while he is not ruling out forced eradication in the valley, he wants to first try crop substitution, led by the Agriculture Ministry.
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French-Peruvian consortium Telecabinas Ku�lap was awarded on Friday the contract for Peru's Kuelap cable car concession in Peru's northern department of Amazonas.
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 The International Fair of Conventions Market and Incentive Trips for Latin American and the Caribbean - Fiexpo Latin America, aimed at promoting this industry's infrastructure and services, will take place at the Sheraton Lima Hotel & Convention Center, and will convene most Latin American and Caribbean countries, as well as hosted buyers from around the world.
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 Just a short drive south from Lima along the Panamericana hides the small harbour and seaside town of Pucusana. It's the perfect option for anyone short on money, short on time, and in need of a holiday.
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With restaurants and franchises across North, South and Central America as well as Europe, the empire of Peruvian wonder-chef Gaston Acurio already stretches further than the mighty Inca civilization ever did. In fact, his reputation is so widespread that more foreigners would probably recognise his name than that of Peru's current president. |
 The people of Kazakhstan, an Asian country as large as all of western Europe, eat more than 110 kg of potatoes a year per person. The custom of eating potato has been handed down from father to son since the tuber became popular there in the 19th century. But why do they consume more potatoes than the people of Peru and Bolivia, territories today considered the crop's center of its origin and diversity.
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One of Peru's most photogenic and unusual birds is the Marvellous Spatuletail. The small hummingbirds that are endemic to the country, and only live around the Rio Utcubamba. In addition to being rare, they're gorgeous: iridescent shades of blue and green, a long fluttery tail, delicate beaks. |
It says a lot about the England supporters daft enough to pay to watch friendly football at Wembley that they usually pay little attention to the match itself. And against Peru, it became an arts and crafts lesson, as thousands created paper aeroplanes. [Click on the image] |
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