25.10.2025

Heard on All Things Considered By Simeon Tegel 6-Minute Listen Transcript The Trump administration’s goals to crack down on drug trafficking may be at odds with cuts to aid programs meant to fight coca at its source in the Amazon SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST:   The Trump administration has expanded its crackdown on alleged drug smugglers by striking boats in the Caribbean .. Read more

26.05.2024

Enrique Añez Dosantos, a former chief of and current spokesman for the remote village of Nueva Oceana, Peru, uses his hands to make sounds as part of his protocol for communicating with a neighboring tribe that lives in voluntary isolation. (Florence Goupil for The Washington Post) NUEVA OCEANIA, Peru — Sometimes, they imitate the low rumble of the howler monkey .. Read more

21.04.2024

IÑAPARI, Peru — At the entrance to its sprawling tract of virgin Amazon rainforest, the Peruvian timber company Maderacre turns ancient hardwood trees into flooring on an industrial scale. Beside the vast, modern facility, a reddish dirt road leads into the jungle where workers harvest wood that takes centuries to mature. As it systematically removes the oldest trees from this stunning .. Read more

29.09.2011

Desde el glaciar Yanapaccha, de 5.460 metros y situado en el corazón de la Cordillera Blanca, en los Andes peruanos, la vista no podría ser más imponente. Empinadas cumbres nevadas llegan hasta el horizonte mientras que abajo, a través de las nubes, quebradas escarpadas desembocan en lagunas de una turquesa perfecta. Pero, mientras los crampones crujen en el hielo duro .. Read more

12.08.2021

LIMA, Peru — At his swearing-in ceremony on the 200th anniversary of Peruvian independence last month, Peru’s first campesino president condemned the “racial regime” imposed by the conquistadors that continues to divide Latin American societies today. To hammer the point home, Pedro Castillo promised not to use the presidential residence, known as the “House of Pizarro” after its founder, Francisco Pizarro, who led the subjugation of .. Read more

04.08.2011

As the bull twists and bucks, the frightened condor strapped to its back helplessly flaps its huge wings, almost dwarfing the enraged animal. To a chorus of battered horns, a villager with a tattered cape steps into the dusty square. Chicha, the fermented maize juice that is the preferred tipple of many Andeans, has been flowing for hours and the .. Read more