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- Will Yale return all 40,000 artifacts to Peru?
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Yale University is holding some 40,000 artifacts from the famed Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, a government official heading efforts to return the pieces told the state news agency Andina on Sunday.
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- Farmers strike turns violent in Peru; four dead
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  The second day of nationwide protests by farmers in Peru spiralled into violence with two protestors shot by police and another falling to his death trying to elude tear gas shells. Transport was paralyzed in the departments of Ayacucho, Arequipa, Cusco and several other parts of the country because of the strike that began Monday, when police said one farmer was shot by an angry motorist.
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- Peru quake death toll 355, rising
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  The scope of the destruction became more evident as the frigid dawn broke, revealing thick stone and masonry walls in piles around the region. The quake knocked out telephone and mobile phone service between the capital and the disaster zone. Electricity also was cut, with power lines drooping dangerously into the streets.
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- Earthquake felt in downtown Lima, Peru
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  A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7. struck Peru on Wednesday shaking buildings in the capital and causing electrical power failures in some areas, the U.S. Geological Survey and eyewitnesses said.
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- Great Andean glacier 'will melt to nothing by 2012'
  Posted by Jeff from Times Online
  The Quelccaya ice-cap, covering 17 square miles (44 sq km) in the Cordillera Oriental region of the Peruvian Andes, is the world’s largest tropical ice mass. Qori Kalis, its biggest glacier, has receded by at least 0.6 miles (1.1km) since 1963, when the first formal measurements were made from aerial photographs. The rate of retreat has increased
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- Peru Voters Return Garcia to Presidency
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  Peruvian voters returned Alan Garcia to the presidency, betting he will spur the economy and not repeat mistakes of his past administration that led to a debt default and surging inflation in the 1980's. "The vote was a defeat for Chavez's expansionist plans that he is trying to implement in South America, his attempts to annex us to his retrograde model,'' Garcia said.
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- Mummy of Tattooed Woman Discovered in Peru Pyramid
  Posted by Billbar from National Geographic
  An exquisitely preserved and elaborately tattooed mummy of a young woman has been discovered deep inside a mud-brick pyramid in northern Peru. The 1,500-year-old mummy may shed new light on the mysterious Moche culture, which occupied Peru's northern coastal valleys from about A.D. 100 to 800.
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Farmers strike turns violent in Peru; four dead

This is kind of personal for me because I spent two weeks visiting farmers and coops in Peru this past fall. You can see my pictures from the trip here.

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