Frank Bajak

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Lima’s reformist mayor battles to stay in office

Carla Salazar, Frank Bajak · February 20, 2013 5:00 am

US: Kidnap threat for travelers to Machu Picchu

Frank Bajak · February 16, 2013 12:40 am

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2012 file photo, the carcasses of fish that were gutted and filleted for customers, fill a trash bin to the brim at the Villa Maria del Triunfo market, one of the largest fish markets in Lima, Peru. Not only has overfishing of the Peruvian anchovy, or anchoveta, battered the industry that makes Peru far and away the world's No. 1 fish-meal exporter, it has also raised alarm about food security in a nation that had long been accustomed to cheap, abundant seafood. Peru's government ordered radical restrictions on what the country's 1,200-boat commercial fleet could catch after anchoveta stocks plummeted. But compliance with strict government quotas has been problematic. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

Peru seeks to protect little fish with big impact

Franklin Briceno, Frank Bajak · February 5, 2013 5:00 am

Colombia military reform slammed by rights groups

Frank Bajak · December 12, 2012 5:06 am

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez waves a Venezuelan flag as he greets supporters at the Miraflores presidential palace balcony in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. Chavez won re-election and a new endorsement of his socialist project Sunday, surviving his closest race yet after a bitter campaign against opposition candidate Henrique Capriles.(AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Re-elected Chavez faces likely economic reckoning

Ian James, Frank Bajak · October 8, 2012 4:00 am

Residents wait in line at a polling station to vote in the presidential election in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. President Hugo Chavez is running for re-election against opposition candidate Henrique Capriles. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Wait begins after huge turnout in Venezuela vote

Ian James, Frank Bajak · October 7, 2012 4:00 am

In this photo released by Colombia's Presidential Office, President Juan Manuel Santos, left, shakes hands with his Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon as other cabinet ministers surround him after he announced the signing of a preliminary agreement to launch peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, a nationally televised speech from the presidential palace in Bogota, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2011. Santos said the talks would begin in early October in Oslo, Norway, and would continue in Havana, Cuba. (AP Photo/Javier Casella, Colombia's Presidential Office)

No cease-fire, drugs nag at Colombia peace talks

Frank Bajak · September 5, 2012 4:00 am

In this photo released by Colombia's Presidential Office, shows President Juan Manuel Santos, center, announcing the signing of a preliminary agreement to launch peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, during a nationally televised speech from the presidential palace in Bogota, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2011. Santos said the talks would begin in early October in Oslo, Norway, and would continue in Havana, Cuba. Sitting at right are cabinet ministers and at left chiefs of the armed forces. (AP Photo/Javier Casella, Colombia's Presidential Office)

Colombia-rebel peace talks announced

Paul Haven, Frank Bajak · September 4, 2012 4:00 am

In this undated photo released on Monday Aug. 27, 2012 by the family of South African adventurer David du Plessis, 24, du Plessis holds up the flg of South Africa as he reaches the summit of Mount Mismi located in the Andes mountain range of Peru. David du Plessis, 24, was shot three times and robbed by two young men Saturday, Aug. 25, while seeking to follow the Amazon River from its origin to its mouth. He is now in stable condition at a Lima hospital. (AP Photo/David du Plessis family)

South African adventurer shot in Peru

Frank Bajak · August 27, 2012 4:00 am

Top US general: Venezuela not a threat

Frank Bajak · August 1, 2012 12:22 am

In this July 2012 photo provided by Galit Weiss, climber Gil Weiss, 29, left, and Ben Horne, 32, pose for a photo as they climb the Palcaraju Peak in Peru. Rescue coordinator Ted Alexander says a three-man team found the bodies of Weiss and Horne on Palcaraju in the Cordillera Blanca range on Saturday, July 28, 2012. Alexander says they died in a fall off a ridge after climbing the 20,000-foot (6,100-meter) west peak. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Galit Weiss)

2 missing US climbers found dead

Frank Bajak · July 28, 2012 4:00 am

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2006 file photo, an explorer looks looks out at the Pastoruri glacier, part of the Cordillera Blanca, or "White Mountain Range" in Huaraz, Peru. A search team has reached the base camp and spotted the apparent tracks of two 29-year-old U.S. mountaineers, Gil Weiss and Ben Horne from Boulder, Colorado, who have not been heard from since July 11, 2012 when they set off to climb a glacier-capped peak in the Cordillera Blanca range of northern Peru. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro, File)

2 US climbers missing on Peru high peak

Frank Bajak · July 27, 2012 4:00 am