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Inflation Protests Erupt Across Peru As President Imposes Curfew, Calls In Military
Inflation Protests Erupt Across Peru As President Imposes Curfew, Calls In Military Inflation poses severe challenges for emerging market economies. The latest example is in Peru, where social unrest spreads across the country, forcing the government to impose a curfew in the capital, Lima, on Tuesday, according to Reuters. “The cabinet has agreed to declare a ban […]
CHART OF THE WEEK: Mexico & Peru Silver Production Big Declines Again In May
CHART OF THE WEEK: Mexico & Peru Silver Production Big Declines Again In May According to the data released by Mexico and Peru’s governmental mining data, domestic silver production continued to be depressed in May. Interestingly, the production data just released from Mexico’s INEGI shows that the country’s silver production in May was even less […]
BREAKING NEWS: Peru Silver Mine Supply Collapsed In April
BREAKING NEWS: Peru Silver Mine Supply Collapsed In April With the data now finally out, Peru’s silver mine production collapsed in April. Due to the shutdown of a large portion of Peru’s mining industry, as a result of the global contagion, the impact on the world’s second-largest silver supply was enormous. While I had mentioned […]
PERU EXTENDS LOCK-DOWN ALONG WITH MEXICO: An Estimated 40% Of Global Silver Mine Supply Now Offline
PERU EXTENDS LOCK-DOWN ALONG WITH MEXICO: An Estimated 40% Of Global Silver Mine Supply Now Offline Now that the Peruvian Government announced an extension of the country’s state of emergency until April 26th, the world’s first and second-largest silver producers have taken 40% of global silver mine supply offline for a month. Actually, Peru first […]
“This Is Not A Symbolic Action” — Indigenous Protesters Occupy Oil Platforms in Radicalized Fight Against Pollution in the Amazon
Photo: Ben Depp for The Intercept “This Is Not A Symbolic Action” — Indigenous Protesters Occupy Oil Platforms in Radicalized Fight Against Pollution in the Amazon THE SKIFFS ARRIVED a few hours after sundown on September 18, a dark and moonless night in the Peruvian Amazon. They landed at several points along the broad Corrientes […]
Answering For Climate Change: A Peruvian Farmer Sues an Energy Giant
ANSWERING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: A PERUVIAN FARMER SUES AN ENERGY GIANT Saul Luciano Lliuya lives near Huaraz, a city in the Andes. Huaraz may not exist much longer, thanks to the swiftly melting Churup Glacier. The glacier feeds a lake which has grown more than thirty times in volume over the past four decades, and […]
Leaked Map Reveals Big Gas Is Setting Its Sights on the Most Biodiverse Place on Earth
Leaked Map Reveals Big Gas Is Setting Its Sights on the Most Biodiverse Place on Earth Part of a map from Pluspetrol, an exploration and production company, showing its interest in areas of Manú National Park in Peru’s Amazon. (Pluspetrol) A leaked map shows that a private energy corporation based in Argentina is eyeing Manú […]
Thousands reject the extractivist logic at the World Bank-IMF meeting in Peru
Thousands reject the extractivist logic at the World Bank-IMF meeting in Peru The annual governors’ meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank opened on October 5 in Peru’s capital city. In the meeting, an estimated 800 representatives from 188 countries were negotiating the shape of the world’s soon-to-be renovated finance infrastructure. While […]
Emissions-Cutting Deal Reached at COP 20 Lima, But Will It Help Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change? | Democracy Now!
Emissions-Cutting Deal Reached at COP 20 Lima, But Will It Help Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change? | Democracy Now!. After more than 30 hours of extended talks, a global agreement on climate change was reached over the weekend at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru. Negotiators from nearly 200 countries agreed to a […]
Weakened deal reached in Peru climate talks – Americas – Al Jazeera English
Weakened deal reached in Peru climate talks – Americas – Al Jazeera English. About 190 nations have agreed upon the building blocks of a deal to combat climate change in 2015 amid warnings that far tougher action will be needed to cut rising world greenhouse-gas emissions. The Lima deal, reached early on Sunday, lays out […]
Seeing Peru’s forests through the trees – Features – Al Jazeera English
Seeing Peru’s forests through the trees – Features – Al Jazeera English. Puerto Maldonado, Peru – In an Amazonian timber yard bordering Bolivia and Brazil, Nelson Kroll names stacks of rough-hewn hardwoods, pointing out shihuahuaco and pumaquiro species freshly felled from select tracts of the Madreacre logging concession. “In this campaign we’ve cut 39,000 cubic metres of round timber, which is about […]
