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 Brazil, Peru, China plan trans-South American railway

Brazil, Peru and China are working on an outline agreement to create a new railway that would cross South America, the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper reported Tuesday.

The train line would cross the continent, linking Brazil's Atlantic coastline with the Pacific Ocean in Peru, and in part boost commodity exports.
Economy & Trade

Formal employment at private enterprises grew by 1% in February this year, Peru's Job Promotion and Employment Minister Daniel Maurate affirmed. 
 

Remarkable progress has been made in the most recent round of talks to push forward a Free Trade Agreement between Peru and Turkey, Peru's Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Magali Silva, reported.
 
Infrastructure

 

In Peru, there is a set of infrastructure projects worth US$113.439 billion to be potentially executed thru the year 2021. 
These would enable to close 93% of the infrastructure gap, according to a research conducted by the publishing agency Peru Top Publications (PTP).
 

Mining & Energy

Peru President exhorts Islay locals to restore peace and dialogue

Peru's President Ollanta Humala today urged the population of Islay province to restore climate of peace and resume dialogue with leaders who support people's interests regarding the Tia Maria mining project. 

 

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7 Police wounded in growing protest against Peru mining project 

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Science


 

Peruvian physicist Luis Felipe Delgado-Aparicio won a grant from the University of Princeton for fusion research.
 
Conservation


Machu Picchu Historic Sanctuary reforested with queu�a saplings

Over 2,000 hectares of the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu were reforested by planting 2,000 queu�a saplings.  
Politics

Peru and China consolidate cooperation, friendship ties

President of Peruvian Nationalist Party Nadine Heredia Alarcon met with Secretary-General of CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee Yin Hong to discuss the importance of ruling parties' support for their governments and the coincidences concerning development of their countries.

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Defense

Russia to Send Nearly 700 Pieces of Military Equipment to Peru Exhibit

Russian companies will present a total of about 700 pieces of various weaponry and military equipment at the upcoming SITDEF 2015 trade show in Peru, Russia's Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) said Tuesday.
Diplomacy


Peru, Bolivia to hold binational cabinet meeting on June 23

The first binational cabinet meeting between Peru and Bolivia will take place on June 23, in the presence of Peruvian President Ollanta Humala and his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales, Peru's Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported. 

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will pay an official visit to Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Chile from May 18 to 26, Vice Foreign Minister Wang Chao and Assistant Minister of Commerce Tong Daochi said on Wednesday in a preview to Li's visit.
China's trade volume with Peru reached 14.32 billion U.S. dollars in 2014, with bilateral free trade pact with Peru being implemented for five years and bearing fruitful results. China's investment in Peru reached 14.24 billion U.S. dollars by the end of 2014.
We met with Ambassador Vladimir Eisenbruk who received us in his office one sunny and very hot afternoon. The Ambassador not only greeted us in Spanish but, as it turned out, demonstrated throughout the entire interview his command over the Castilian language. Having served as a diplomat in Central America and entering into his fifth year of living in Peru may largely explain his remarkable linguistic skills.
 




Culture


Machu Picchu and Chan Chan to welcome The International Council of Museums representatives

The President of the International Council of Museums Hans-Martin Hinz will arrive in Peru on May 18 to pay a visit the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu and Peru's Northern Chan Chan ruins. 
The visit is to be conducted in the framework of the celebrations marking the International Museum Day.
The Ministry of Culture and its attached organizations have prepared a program of activities to commemorate the "Museum Month" throughout the entire month.
 
Gastronomy


Peru has what the mouth wants

Where to go and what to taste while in Lima, the most flavorful capital in all of Latin America.
Tourism


Lima, most visited city in Latin America

The Peruvian capital, Lima, is the top ranked destination city in Latin America with 5.11 million international visitors in 2014, according to MasterCard's 2014 Global Destination Cities Index.
 
Miscellaneous


Champion of liberation theology gets rehabilitation treatment

History of a particular kind was made yesterday in the Holy See, where Peruvian theologian Fr Gustavo Guti�rrez, one of the founding fathers of "liberation theology", was unofficially "rehabilitated".

Liberation theology was essentially a Latin American movement that began in the 1960s as a moral reaction by some Catholic thinkers to the obvious social injustice and inequality in the region.


 

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Vatican never condemned liberation theology, Gustavo Gutierrez insists
 

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