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Two people were killed and eight were injured in a shootout on Wednesday as Peruvian police tried to arrest a suspect for attacking a mining project owned by Chinese company Zijin, police said on Thursday.
I went to Peru over Thanksgiving break from Nov. 21-29. The country is beautiful, with mountains that make the Sandias look like speed bumps.
The macabre nature of the story attracted international attention, but also prompted doubts.
LIMA -(Dow Jones)- A successful bond swap carried out last week by the Peruvian government shows strong investor confidence in its sovereign debt, Scotiabank said Tuesday.
Martin Strel, an endurance swimmer, in a documentary by John Maringouin that tracks Mr. Strel's 2007 Amazon conquest, which began in Peru on Feb. 1 and ended in Brazil on April 7.
The FBI on Tuesday returned 150 smuggled pre-Columbian artifacts, some more than 3,000 years old, to the governments of Peru and Ecuador, the agency said.
LIMA -(Dow Jones)- Peru's overall central government tax and customs collections have ended their slide, posting the first monthly increase this year in November, the government said.
Peru's police chief dismissed the head of his criminal investigations unit Tuesday amid suggestions that officers may have invented a story about a murderous gang of human fat thieves, perhaps to distract from allegations of police killings.
Remember that grisly story two weeks ago about a Peruvian gang that murdered people and extracted their fat to sell to European cosmetics companies?
Posted: Friday, December 4, 2009 3:00 am | Updated: 3:02 am, Fri Dec 4, 2009. POCATELLO — A student at Idaho State University has proposed initiating research to study the nutrition problems in Peru’s Cuzco region.
Remember that twisted story of the Peruvian gang which supposedly killed obese people and sold their fat for use in cosmetics? It was made up by an investigator. Thank God. [BBC]
By John Patton Staff writer Who I Am: Jaymi Bautista-Geiger, Gainesville High School junior softball pitcher. What I Did: Travelled to Guayaquil, Ecuador from November 15-22 to play with the Peruvian National Softball Team in the XVI Bolivarian Games, an open-level international tournament. Of Note: Bautista-Geiger's Peruvian heritage is from her father's side
PERU — A company that makes towable recreational vehicles has announced plans to expand its operations in northern Indiana and potentially add 100 jobs.
Ecopetrol S.A. announces that on December 3, 2009 the Comision Nacional Supervisora de Empresas y Valores del Peru approved the listing of Ecopetrol's ADRs on the Lima Stock Exchange and registered them in the Registro Publico del Mercado de Valores de CONASEV.
INDIANAPOLIS - An unprecedented exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art is drawing visitors from around the world to see 71 pieces from 45 lenders in Spain, Mexico, Peru and other countries.
Right now off the Peruvian Coast, the ocean waters off the far eastern equatorial Pacific are warmer than normal.
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