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Fujimori's Peru and the price of neoliberal success
Oped, Published on 10/10/2024
» The script of Latin American politics too often reads like a "dictator novel," and on Sept 11, another chapter drew to a close with the death of Alberto Fujimori. As the president who most defined -- and divided -- modern Peru, his legacy remains a topic of heated debate. One version of Fujimori's epitaph would commend his economics and condemn his politics, but the deeper lesson his life story offers may be that it is impossible to separate the two.
The drug trade's gold rush state
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/07/2023
» A total of 210 tonnes of drugs seized in a single year, a record. At least 4,500 killings last year, also a record. Children recruited by gangs. Prisons as hubs for crime. Neighbourhoods consumed by criminal feuds. And all this chaos financed by powerful outsiders with deep pockets and lots of experience in the global drug business.
Gravity-defying: revamping an Inca rope suspension bridge
AFP, Published on 20/06/2023
» CUSCO (PERU) - Dangling over a vertiginous gorge, the Apurimac River flowing around 10 stories below, Indigenous Peruvians show no fear as they repair a centuries-old Inca rope suspension bridge -- the world's last.
Save this letter for next time
News, Postbag, Published on 29/01/2023
» Re: "Drop in air," (BP, Jan 28) and "Work from home, BMA urges," (BP, Jan 26).
What about the UN? Coming down off that high
News, Published on 12/06/2022
» Kob, a university student, has grown cannabis plants in his room to make pressed dried cannabis for sale over the past two years.
Bolivia's Morales back from year in exile
AFP, Published on 10/11/2020
» VILLAZóN (BOLIVIA) - Leftist former president Evo Morales crossed the border from Argentina into Bolivia on Monday, triumphantly ending a year-long exile that followed a failed bid for a controversial fourth term.
Bolivia's Morales resigns after losing backing of security forces
AFP, Published on 11/11/2019
» LA PAZ - Bolivian President Evo Morales resigned Sunday, caving in following three weeks of sometimes-violent protests over his disputed re-election after the army and police withdrew their backing.
Bolivia's opposition stages strike, Morales decries 'coup'
AFP, Published on 24/10/2019
» LA PAZ - Bolivia's opposition launched a general strike Wednesday amid protests and disturbances over disputed election results that pointed to another term for President Evo Morales, who likened the unrest to a right-wing coup.
Violence breaks out in Bolivia over vote count
AFP, Published on 22/10/2019
» LA PAZ - Violence broke out in several Bolivian cities Monday after the main opposition candidate rejected presidential election results that seemed set to give victory to long-time incumbent Evo Morales, as international monitors voiced "deep concern."
Morales narrowly wins first round in Bolivia election, faces run-off
AFP, Published on 21/10/2019
» LA PAZ - Evo Morales, seeking a controversial fourth term, led Bolivia's presidential election race Sunday but faces a historic second round run-off against opposition rival Carlos Mesa, partial results announced by electoral authorities showed.