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Peruvian among Goldman environment prize winners

Peruvian among Goldman environment prize winners

Franklin Briceno · April 28, 2014 8:57 pm

FILE - This Sept. 13, 2013 aerial file photo shows tailings produced by informal mining in Peru's Madre de Dios region. A study of mercury contamination from rampant informal gold mining in Peru's Amazon says indigenous people who get their protein mostly from fish are the most affected, particularly their children. The clock has run out for an estimated 40,000 illegal gold miners who had until Saturday to legalize their status in a region of southeastern Peru where fortune-seekers have ravaged rainforests and contaminated rivers. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

Deadline lapses in Peru for illegal gold miners

Franklin Briceno · April 19, 2014 6:13 pm

Peru President Ollanta Humala, left, is welcomed by military honors as he arrives at Rideau Hall during a state visit in Ottawa on Wednesday, April 9, 2014. Peruvian security forces have arrested 24 leaders of the political wing of the Shining Path rebel movement including the lawyer of its imprisoned leader and the cousin of Humala, the Peruvian president announced Thursday. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick)

Peru arrests 28 in group tied to Shining Path

Franklin Briceno · April 10, 2014 10:30 pm

Peru’s ex-President Fujimori has stroke, is stable

Franklin Briceno · March 14, 2014 8:10 pm

Peru gas project approved despite Indian concerns

Peru gas project approved despite Indian concerns

Franklin Briceno · January 31, 2014 9:12 pm

Fujimori cleared in sterilization case

Fujimori cleared in sterilization case

Franklin Briceno · January 25, 2014 12:01 pm

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

In this Nov. 10, 2012 photo, a leafless tree stands in the Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery as a man walks by during a nighttime guided tour in Lima, Peru. Visitors to the 54-acre cemetery just 20 blocks from Lima's presidential palace, one of Latin America's oldest, are treated to tales about the people buried here in a three-hour, nighttime guided tour run by its owner, Beneficiencia de Lima. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Spending a night with the dead in Peru’s capital

Franklin Briceno · December 11, 2012 5:18 am

In this photo taken June 13, 2012, Avelino Chavez, wearing his signature Superman costume, waves and greets riot police walking in formation toward a plaza where a protest is expected to take place in downtown Lima, Peru. Chavez, 52, took on the Superman persona 15 years ago, when he lost his job as a security guard, and says he has had work ever since. Chavez also says he only earns about $160 US dollars per month, but that he has the strength of a superhero. Chavez currently works to promote a travel agency. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Lima’s unlikely superhero

Franklin Briceno · June 18, 2012 7:48 pm