Global News Post: Peru

Peru Vows to Break Drug Trafficking-Terrorism Alliance

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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">LIMA (NNN-ANDINA): The alliance between drug trafficking and terrorism will be broken by the State which seeks to pacify the remote valley of the Apurimac and Ene rivers (VRAE), said Peru's Defense Minister Alberto Otarola.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">He recalled that President Ollanta Humala Tasso has made the promise of freeing the communities in the Huallaga and VRAE areas from terror, "and we have already accomplished the first part of this commitment with the capture of terrorist leader Artemio".<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The terrorist, who led the remnants of the Shining Path in the northeastern region of San Martin, was arrested last month and faces charges of terrorism and drug trafficking that could land him a life sentence.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Otarola said that the project used in the Alto Huallaga area will also be implemented in the VRAE, a wild Amazon area in the country's central jungle, where the subordinates of terrorist leader "Jose" operate in alliance with drug traffickers.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span dir="LTR"></span>"We are absolutely sure that areas such as the VRAE, after so many years, deserve peace, just like what we recently achieved in the Huallaga," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To that goal, he said the state's presence will be strengthened in the VRAE to achieve concrete results through the promotion and dissemination of social programs such as Beca 18, Pensión 65, among others.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">He stressed that the problem of narco-terrorism will not be solved through military action alone but requires a comprehensive approach. -NNN-ANDINA<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Peru Vows to Break Drug Trafficking-Terrorism Alliance

LIMA (NNN-ANDINA): The alliance between drug trafficking and terrorism will be broken by the State which seeks to pacify the remote valley...

Peru to Launch Us$100 Million Science-Industry Link Project

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</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">LIMA</span></st1:city><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> (NNN-ANDINA) - <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Peru</st1:country-region></st1:place> will provide US$100 million for a new project promoting the development of science and technology (S&T) links between the private sector, universities and public and private research centres.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The Innovation for Competitiveness project, running for seven years, will also receive US$36 million from the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), sources from Ministry of Economy and Finance told SciDev.Net. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Within two months, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Peru</st1:place></st1:country-region> will also have its draft strategic plan on science, technology, innovation and competitiveness, which is being drawn up by a dedicated commission, sources said. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">These developments are in line with President Ollanta Humala's plans to boost science, particularly through fostering cooperation between public research institutes, universities, and small and medium enterprises. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Oscar Valdez, chairman of the Council of Ministers, announced the start of the competitiveness project, while Patricia Salas, Education minister, gave details on the strategic plan on Jan 5l during a presentation to cabinet and Congress. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Valdez</span></st1:city><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> also announced 1,000 new S&T postgraduate fellowships for study in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Peru</st1:place></st1:country-region> and another 1,500 at foreign universities by 2016. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">He said another initiative will aim to broaden full access to broadband Internet in the country to improve access to tele-health, tele-education and e-government services. -- NNN-ANDINA<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Peru to Launch Us$100 Million Science-Industry Link Project

LIMA (NNN-ANDINA) - Peru will provide US$100 million for a new project promoting the development of science and technology (S&T) lin...

Peru seeks to recover first set of 2,300-year-old Paracas textiles

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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">  <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">LIMA</span></st1:city><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> (NNN-ANDINA) -- A group of experts from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Peru</st1:country-region>'s Ministry of Culture is seeking the return of the first batch of 20 ancient pre-Columbian textiles currently held at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">World</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Culture</st1:placename>  <st1:placetype w:st="on">Museum</st1:placetype></st1:place> in Gothenburg.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The deputy minister of Cultural Heritage, Javier Luna, said "the mission traveled to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sweden</st1:place></st1:country-region> two weeks ago to evaluate the state of conservation of the 89 Paracas textiles," which are some 2,300 years old.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The Paracas culture flourished on <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Peru</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s southern coast from around 100 BC to 200 AD, but little was known about their people until archaeological excavations starting in the 1920s.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">"The specialists have made a detailed inventory of the pieces, so we know that 20 of the 89 textiles are of excellent quality, and the idea is to get these first 20 back in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Peru</st1:place></st1:country-region>," Luna told Andina news agency.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The deputy minister hailed the ongoing negotiations between <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Peru</st1:place></st1:country-region> and the Gothenburg City Council as "optimal" and said "now it is up to the Peruvian Foreign Ministry to develop a memorandum of understanding to start the repatriation process."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">According to the Gothenburg museum website, "large quantities of Paracas textiles were smuggled out of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Peru</st1:place></st1:country-region> and illegally exported to museums and private collections all over the world around 1930. About a hundred of them were smuggled to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sweden</st1:place></st1:country-region> and donated to the Ethnographic Department of Göteborg Museum."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The town officially possesses 89 of the textiles, displayed since 2008 and under surveillance, according to the website. -- NNN-ANDINA<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Peru seeks to recover first set of 2,300-year-old Paracas textiles

LIMA (NNN-ANDINA) -- A group of experts from Peru 's Ministry of Culture is seeking the return of the first batch of 20 ancient pre...

PERU EXPECTS 3.5 MLN TOURISTS BY 2016

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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lonely-Planet-Country-Travel-Guide/dp/174179014X?ie=UTF8&tag=glob036-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Lonely Planet Peru (Country Travel Guide)" height="320" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=174179014X&tag=glob036-20" width="208" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glob036-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=174179014X" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />LIMA (NNN-ANDINA) - Peru plans to receive over 3.5 million foreign tourists by 2016 contributing US$5 billion to the economy, Peru's Prime Minister Salomon Lerner said. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Addressing Peru's Congress, he said the Peruvian government will promote the inclusion of Micro and Small Sized Enterprises (MSEs) and community enterprises in the tourism sector.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The government also plans to increase tourism by promoting other destinations such as the tourist circuit in southern Peru, while strengthening others such as Kuelap in Amazonas, Moche Route in northen Peru and other destinations in the Peruvian jungle.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Regarding tourism infrastructure, Lerner said Peru will invest over 400 million soles in 100 projects throughout the country.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"These projects will create potential businesses worth US$1.3 billion for Peruvian companies, while 100,000 beds will be added to the Peruvian hotel offer", he said.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lerner added that the government will pursue Peruvian gastronomy to be included on the prestigious list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in the coming years. -- NNN-ANDINA</span></div></div>

PERU EXPECTS 3.5 MLN TOURISTS BY 2016

LIMA (NNN-ANDINA) - Peru plans to receive over 3.5 million foreign tourists by 2016 contributing US$5 billion to the economy, Peru's P...