Pisco exports reached US$ 5.4 million last year, confirmed the Association of Peruvian Exporters (ADEX).

Natives left oil wells to produce but stand close by to await negotiations.

The dialogue between natives of Loreto and Pluspetrol oil company is postponed from today till Wednesday pending the health of the regional president. 

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"Long ago, when animals were gente..." 

Those words, uttered countless times by indigenous Amazonian storytellers, blur the boundary between humans and other creatures in the forests and rivers, revealing a different view of the way human and non-human worlds intertwine. 

"You can't talk about conservation without talking about enchanted lakes," says Leonardo Tello Imaina, the director of Radio Ucamara in this river port town of Nauta in the northeastern Peruvian Amazon.  

Fish populations have been at severe risk in the last few years on Peru's coastlines.

The introduction of a new marine reserve in the northern Peruvian coast will provide protection as the landscape and resources have been rapidly diminishing.

A drop in oil prices brought layoffs and soon after, a march of hundreds of affected people in Cabo Blanco on Jan. 30, according to La Republica. The oil company Petrobras Energy Peru let go many workers to make up for losses, and now the ocean is losing.

The eight edition of gastronomic fair 'Mistura', to be held this year, will be more "experiential," and is expected to include "innovation" as its main theme, affirmed Mariano Valderrama, Vice President of the Peruvian Society of Gastronomy (Apega). 

The Hilton Hotel chain plans to double its presence in Peruvian destinations within this year and in Latin America within the next five years, according to Gestion.

The director of Development, Andean Region and Hispanic Caribbean for Hilton World-Wide, Juan Corvinos, and general manager Marco Tabet, talked to Gestion about the pending strategies and goals of the company.

In addition to expanding in the capital, the manager told Gestion about the outlying regions of the country they are interested in.

"We analyzed all cities of Peru and currently see potential in areas such as Arequipa, Chiclayo, Piura, and Iquitos. Also for our brands as Hilton Garden Inn and Hampton by Hilton, they are the ones we are injecting the regional market," said Corvinos.

Peruvian surfer Miguel Tudela progressed through to the second round of the Hurley Australian Open of Surfing, fourth stage of the world surf circuit, after a standout performance that secured his victory in the series. 

Ricardo Farf�n doesn't get the jobs he used to. Sometimes his only audience is his wife. But every morning the 91-year-old clown still sips his coffee and studies an old notebook where he keeps hundreds of pages of jokes and comedy moves he has built up over almost nine decades in the circus. 

Peruvian prosecutors on Monday withdrew their request to have two journalists jailed while they are investigated over a Greenpeace action at the ancient Nazca lines site in December that angered many Peruvians.

Rodrigo Abd, a photographer with The Associated Press, and Herbert Villarraga, a video journalist who works for Thomson Reuters, will instead be able to travel freely during a 120-day preliminary investigation, Judge Leodan Ayala ruled.