Living in Peru

Natural protected areas located in Ancash, Ica, Madre de Dios and Puno attract 45% of the income of the National System of Protected Areas (Sinanpe), according to the Environment Ministry (Minam).These ...

Peru's Education Ministry is trying to have specialists from Harvard University, the French Cooperation and Spanish AID as part of the teachers' staff at the Secondary School “President of Peru.”The ...

German company BCS-Öko has just granted Chanchamayo farmers the organic certification for 46 of their products, which will enter US and European markets.Jose Jorge Duran, manager of Highland Coffee ...

Peru's Foreign Trade Ministry (Mincetur) expects a growth of 16% in the country's total exports during 2010, which would amount up to US $30 billion dollars.Minister Martin Perez, said that "global demand is reactivating. ...

Peruvian Grandmaster Julio Granda and World Champions and Deysi Cori Jorge can not participate in international tournaments now, because the International Chess Federation (FIDE) excluded Peru from competitions ...

Indigenous chief leaders (or apus) from awajún and huampis peoples, agreed on rejecting the official visit of Peru's Prime Minister to the province of Condorcanqui (Amazonas region).Javier ...

Lima may very well be the culinary capital of South America, but it is a backwater in terms of street food. In Bolivia you get your morning started right with streetside api and buñuelos, in Colombia there are arepas on every corner and in Mexico taco stands abound. ...

Osiptel, Peru's supervising agency for telecommunications, reported that almost 2,000 requests of switching to another cell phone operator have been filed since Jan. 1, 350 of which have been already accepted ...

The FTA between Peru and China will come into effect on Jan. 15, since Peru has already started the process of ratifications and the customs' adequation, reported Peru's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism.“I ...

Thirteen students and two teachers from Columbia College Chicago are currently in Peru in an academic trip: they are having here an abroad study program of Travel Writing, which this time is focused in ...

A large group of Peruvian and foreign scientists will meet in Lima on January 5-8 to participate in the 2010 International Scientific Meeting intended to inform people on the development of scientific ...