Monthly Archives: May 2018

The World’s Looming Dry Taps Poor planning, experts say, is compounding the problems from climate change and population growth to create growing public health crises around the world.

The World’s Looming Dry Taps Poor planning, experts say, is compounding the problems from climate change and population growth to create growing public health crises around the world.
  • May 18, 2018
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LIMA, Peru — "We are the poorest of the poor. Why do we have to pay the most?" asks Diana Ureta as she washes a bucket of potatoes using turbid water fetched in a jug from a discolored plastic barrel beside her front door. Two chickens peck at the uneven dirt floor while her 4-year-old daughter, dressed in a baggy, stained T-shirt, watches her mother ferrying yet another quart from the barrel back to the kitchen. Like most of her neighbors here in the Lomo de Corvina neighborhood of Villa El Salvador, a…Read more …

While the U.S. has #MeToo, Latin America’s ‘Ni Una Menos’ spotlights femicides, violence against women “Those who commit femicides, or attempted femicides, claim they are being disrespected...they believe they have a right, a right over women’s bodies."

While the U.S. has #MeToo, Latin America’s ‘Ni Una Menos’ spotlights femicides, violence against women “Those who commit femicides, or attempted femicides, claim they are being disrespected...they believe they have a right, a right over women’s bodies."
  • May 17, 2018
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LIMA, Perú — Three weeks and six surgeries after being doused with gasoline and set alight by a former coworker unable to accept her rejection of his advances, Eyvi Agreda remains in intensive care in Lima’s Almenara Hospital, strips of pigskin covering the second and third degree burns on 60 percent of her body. Having moved from her native Andean region of Cajamarca, the sociable 22-year-old had been working hard here in the Peruvian capital, studying international business while also paying her bills by doing shifts in a call center. All that came…Read more …

After PPK, Peru’s Left Struggles to Make Its Case Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's resignation has given leftists an opportunity in Peru. But recent history suggests an uphill climb to power.

After PPK, Peru’s Left Struggles to Make Its Case Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's resignation has given leftists an opportunity in Peru. But recent history suggests an uphill climb to power.
  • May 10, 2018
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LIMA, Peru — It was the perfect opening for the Peruvian left. A deeply unpopular center-right president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, had just been forced to resign. The hard-right Popular Force party, which has an absolute majority in Congress and had driven his ouster, was riven by factional infighting between its leader, Keiko Fujimori, and her congressman brother, Kenji Fujimori. But instead of seizing on the moment last April, Rogelio Tucto, a congressman from the socialistic Broad Front, an alliance of tiny left-wing parties, decided to call for the liberation of the jailed former leader of…Read more …