The recent earthquake in Chile has shaken awake the medias interest in the infamous “Ring of Fire”. From local weather men to the big network scientists, all have vaguely scratched the surface in their explanations of one of the most dangerous areas on Earth.

The Pacific Ring of Fire stretches from South America, where the Nazca plate dips beneath the South American Plate, and runs north along the pacific coasts of Central and North America up to Alaska. It then crosses over to the coasts of Asia all the way south to New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. It is along these fault lines that 75% of the worlds active and dormant volcanoes rest. It is also where 90% of the worlds earthquakes occur. [Continue reading...]

By EDWAR ENRIQUE ESCALANTE.
After his remarkable work through The Mystery of Capital, where his main thesis was the weakness of the property rights as the main cause for people to be poor and excluded from capitalism benefits around the world. Hernando de Soto has produced a hard challenge for the collective society lovers one more time. With no doubt the ideas described by De Soto were a stab for the left that thought to see a genesis of socialism in the Andean and Amazonian communities as the key engine to create a socialist regime in Peru and Latin America.
Why does capitalism triumph in the West and fails everywhere else? That was the question he tried to answer. The celebrated book by De Soto explained that poor people create business, get [Continue reading...]

Peru’s Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde proposed to create a global fund to fight climate change at a tax rate of US$ 0.5 per barrel of oil at the annual high-level debate of the United Nations General Assembly.
According to Garcia Belaunde, this financial mechanism will support mitigation and adaptation to climate change impacts in developing countries.
This rate would be applied to meet the responsibilities throughout the entire oil production chain, including extraction, refining, and its direct and indirect uses.
Peru is being dramatically affected by the global warming effects, witnessing a rapid retreat of its tropical glaciers. There is a concern about the plans to provide enough water for its population.
It is essential to establish specific objectives on cooperation and technology transfer, and funds to develop projects that will alleviate [Continue reading...]

By TIM RATH.
The dramatic effects of climate change in Peru are not simply changing the lives of native rural populations any longer.
Danish model and photographer Helena Christensen traveled with the humanitarian organization Oxfam International to witness and document the effects of global warming on Peru’s poorest residents. Christensen, who is half-Peruvian, said that her time in Peru has been a life-changing experience.
“I know there are extreme problems going on in the world with the climate changes, but to actually be there and to meet the people that are suffering themselves has been incredibly valuable for me,” she said.
Christensen has documented her trip to Cusco, Machu Picchu and Peru’s rural communities with a photographic series that will be shown in New York, Washington, London at the United Nations Conference on Climate [Continue reading...]