Peru's government-created social programs, aimed at helping its least fortunate citizens, have prevented the surge of poverty in a timeline hit by an economic slowdown, said the representative of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) in Peru, Fidel Jaramilllo.
 

he Peruvian Securities Market Superintendency (SMV) and Mexico's National Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV) signed a cooperation agreement to achieve more efficient control of stock market in both countries.
 

Peru's metallic mineral production of gold, zinc, tin and molybdenum fell through the first three quarters of the year. Output of copper, silver, lead, iron ore, tungsten and cadmium grew, the government said.

Gold output fell 14.8% to 101,146kg (3.25Moz) through September due to a government crackdown on illegal gold miners in the Amazon jungle, the energy and mines ministry (MEM) said in a report on its website.

Report warns of conflict risk between residents and mining, oil and logging firms.
 More than 40 percent of the surface of Peru has been earmarked for mining, logging, and oil and gas drilling, a new report shows. Yet 96 percent of this land is occupied by indigenous peoples and local communities.

A geologist has demonstrated that earthquakes -- not climate change, as previously thought -- affect the rate of landslides in Peru. "Geologic records of landslide activity offer rare glimpses into landscapes evolving under the influence of tectonics and climate," says a researcher whose expertise includes geomorphology and tectonics.
 

 What sounds counter-intuitive to an activity commonly perceived as quiet is the broad recommendation of scientists at Michigan State University (MSU) recommending that small-scale fishing in the world's freshwater bodies must have a higher profile to best protect global food security. 

The Amazon is home to perhaps dozens of isolated tribes who make their living far off the grid from the wider society, growing crops and hunting and gathering in the forest. These reclusive peoples are threatened by drug running, illegal logging, and highway construction, even if they dwell in "protected" reserves in Peru or Brazil; one group, apparently pushed out of its lands, made contact this summer. Now, researchers have a new way of examining their fate without disruptive and frightening flyovers by aircraft.
 

Peru has embarked on an irreversible path towards Schengen visa exemption for Peruvian passport holders, said the European Union Ambassador to Peru, Irene Horejs, who stressed a previous report concluding that Peru fulfills the criteria for visa-free access to the free-travelling area in Europe.
 

Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili received the credentials of Ambassador Jorge Abarca del Carpio as Peru's first ever diplomat with concurrent accreditation to this Caucasian country.

Every time I eat at Ocopa, I wonder what took Carlos Delgado so long to show off the flavors of his native Peru. Glimmers of the chef's strong suit surfaced at B�veda, the Latin speakeasy inside the Westin Georgetown, but not until he opened a place of his own did I experience his deft touches with more than just ceviche.
 

New York's "Fusion Night" gastronomy fair set to start on November 6 this year, is expected to enable attendees to catch a taste not only of the best of Peruvian and Mexican food. The meeting will also enable them to learn about the both countries' Gastronomy History.

Miraflores! Los Ricos y Los Pobres

(an ongoing history)

On the Ovalo in a fast food place
(there are many - take your pick),
I am eating my American tourist diet
Of hamburger and fries
When I spot her.

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Fidel Flores, a mechanic residing in Cajamarca, owed US$1,500 for a chainsaw he had purchased in 1993. Having grown tired of waiting to recuperate the last S/.500 owed by Flores, Marina de Vigo Cabrera, wife of the original owner of said power tool, asked the region's police department to step in. What was supposed to be a threat of house eviction has led to the unfortunate October 30 death of Flores, a crime that has caused the general public to backlash against the Cajamarca police department.
 

 Learning a new language is never easy, and for many Peruvians, it's a lot easier to just read the Spanish subtitles on their favorite U.S. movie trailers.

Armed with that insight, language school Euroidiomas has been trolling these viewers with clever YouTube banner ads that covered subtitles on movie promos and urged them to sign up for English classes.

"The action's up there, not down here," notes one ad.

Joran van der Sloot, the 27-year-old Dutchman convicted for the 2010 murder of 21-year-old Peruvian Stephany Flores and under suspicion in the 2005 disappearance of American Natalee Holloway, just hates the place he's doing time.