President Ollanta Humala expressed the new labor regime will enable workers (aged: 18 - 24) find a job.

Peru's government called Monday for bids for seven jungle oil and natural gas exploration blocks, the first bidding round since 2008.
The areas include blocks 164 and 199 in the Loreto Basin; blocks 169, 175, 189 and 195 in the Ucayali Basin; and block 187 in the Madre de Dios Basin, according to state oil contracting agency Perupetro.
Companies can present bids until May.
 

Workers at Minera Antamina, which operates the world's largest copper-zinc mine in Peru, ended their second strike in a month, a company official said.

Neither the strike that began December 10 to pressure for a higher share of profits, nor a three-week stoppage that ended November 30, halted operations at the mine, Antamina spokesman Martin Calder�n said in an e-mail. The union called off the strike after the labor ministry declared it was unjustified, according to the company

"After two frustrated attempts to paralyze production at Antamina, everything has returned to normal," Calder�n said.

Barrick Gold's massive mine in Peru has sped up community development, including schools and a hospital. So why are so many locals still jobless and poor?

A last-minute deal that salvaged U.N. climate talks from collapse early Sunday sends a signal the rich-poor divide that long held up progress can be overcome with a year to go before a landmark pact is supposed to be adopted in Paris.

Still, it remains to be seen whether governments can come up with a new formula for how countries in different stages of development should contribute in a way that keeps global warming from reaching dangerous levels.

Since 1992, the world's leaders have been meeting annually to talk about what to do about climate change. Despite these efforts, the planet is still on pace for a worst-case scenario-actually, it's tracking a bit above it. Thanks to exceptionally warm oceans, this year should be the hottest ever measured.

Peruvian officials said on Monday that the environmental group Greenpeace had refused to hand over the names of activists who entered a protected area near the Nazca Lines, ancient etchings in the Peruvian desert.

Diana �lvarez, the minister of culture, said that the authorities would continue to try to identify the activists involved and might seek their extradition. She added that the activists had apparently left the country.

Drones sent up to study the Nazca Lines in Peru show that a protest against global warming by the environment action group Greenpeace permanently damaged an area around the famed geoglyphs, the government said.

Culture Minister Diana Alvarez-Calderon said Monday that evidence gathered during an investigation by the government will be used as part of a legal suit against Greenpeace.