Sales of a Peruvian root called ‘maca’ have boomed due to an unprecedented Chinese demand. The root is said to boost fertility, increase energy, and even have an aphrodisiac effect. Despite the increase in price many worry it’s being smuggled out of country.
Author: Dan Collyns
Peru’s ex president Fujimori’s fifth jail term
Peru’s jailed former president was handed another prison term for embezzling public funds to support his presidential re-election in 2000
Peru’s clean energy potential
Can wind power take off in Peru?
Peru creates climate change route on melting glacier
As glacier disappears, focus shifts to education
Peru: the business of reversing deforestation
Could Peru profit from being a carbon sink?
Peru’s forests store more than US emits in a year
Peru: fighting rampant illegal logging
Nearly 80 percent of the Peru’s timber exports are harvested illegally. Often this takes place on the lands of native people where residents are not only intimidated, but sometimes killed. Camera: Ronald Reategui
Peru: illegal logging
How Peru’s tropical hardwoods get felled, laundered and exported
How Peru’s illegal wood gets exported around the world
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/14/illegal-logging-peru-amazon-deforestation
Who are Bolivians voting for in 2014
Incumbent Evo Morales is expected to win by a wide margin, but there are other candidates who have attracted the electorate.