How archaeologists are using drones to protect Lima’s pre-Colombian ruins.
Development
Counting African-Peruvians
Peru’s counting its citizens of African descent to include them, and empower them.
How many Peruvians are African Peruvians?
Peru’s first ever survey of its African-descended population hopes to get the statistics needed to improve their opportunities.
Peru: the right to be consulted
The United Nations says Peru will be Latin America’s second-fastest growing economy this year. Will consulting Peru’s indigenous people help them gain from that growth?
Peru’s maids fight for their rights
In Peru half a million woman make a living as domestic workers and most of them lack basic labour rights.
Bad education in Peru
Big questions are being asked about how Peru is educating its children. It came last in the international PISA tests in every category. No improvement in nearly 15 years of solid growth.
Chile’s student movement
When Michelle Bachelet begins her second presidential term in Chile after a landslide win there’s one group of people she’ll need to keep on side. The students.
Junking combis: Lima’s road to better transport
Every day the streets of the Peruvian capital of Lima get more choked with traffic. Millions of people rely on an informal network of privately-operated buses for transportation. But ‘combis’ and ‘cousters’ are being phased out to make way for more modern transportation.
Lima’s future with a dwindling water supply
Peru has the fifth biggest supply of fresh water in the Americas. The trouble is it’s on the eastern side of the Andes mountains in the Amazon. Two thirds of population, most of the economic activity and the capital city are the other side which gets just 2% of the nation’s water supply.
The nature business
Finding a marketplace for the Amazon rainforest. Eco-tourism as a conservation tool.