Semi-stuffed on mediocre tasting empanadas de queso and carne, the gang and I stood on the corner of Huaraz’s busy Luzuriaga street awaiting our early morning pick-up. We were on the road to Pastoruri, a tall, tropical glacier that soars 17,000 feet in the Cordillera Blanca. [Continue reading...]
Amongst all the excitement we volunteers experienced this week in Huaraz, there was a moment of reflection and composure as we entered the memorial site of Campo Santo. To the back of the site lies Mount Huascaran standing at 22,205 feet above sea level in the region of Ancash. The mountain is Peru’s highest and is part of the Cordillera Blanca, or “white range” in the Huascaran National Park. [Continue reading...]
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...]
