Under the guise of health regulations, the European Union has enforced illegal trade barriers on many developing countries for years. These restrictions blocked certain foods from being imported into the EU if they hadn’t been traditionally consumed by Europeans before 1997.
According to the Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Repression at the French Economy Ministry, Europe had been unfairly banning lúcuma for years now, as it was indeed marketed in France before 1997.
April 28, 2009 | Opinion, Peruvian Food
When the Incas arrived in the Cañete valley they found it fiercely defended by the Guarco (Huarco) people who lived there. It took future emperor Túpac Yupanqui years to subdue them, even going as far as to temporarily recreate the imperial capital of Cusco nearby as a base to attack from, moving the empire’s army there in the process. There were Huarco fortresses dotted across the fertile valley, and these fiercely defensive people had 20,000 warriors at their disposal, reading to die for their freedom – but life for the Huarco wasn’t always like this.
April 27, 2009 | Archaeology, Lima City Guide
![Visit to Chakiccocha [Featured]](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1343/555374565_37d7873380_m.jpg)
Meredith Slater of Friends of the World Food Program, writes about her visit to the town of Chakiccocha as part of a wider visit to Andean Peru. You can find out more about the group’s work and time in the country here.
April 27, 2009 | Opinion
Peru has stepped up efforts to monitor airports, sea ports and borders in light of the continuing threat from the swine flu inflicting Mexico and parts of the United States.
April 26, 2009 | News
The Fortaleza del Real Felipe is the most prominent landmark in Callao. Built during colonial times, it was used to defend Spain’s most important port in the Americas against pirates and corsairs who would otherwise raid Callao or nearby Lima as they did up and down the Pacific coast. Today it is a tourist attraction and museum run by Peru’s army.
April 24, 2009 | Culture & History, Lima City Guide
![Who Needs Clubs When Everyone Is at the Cafe? [Featured]](http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/04/16/travel/16lima.slide5.jpg)
The New York Times recently ran this article about Lima’s cafe and restaurant scene, featuring Gastón Acurio’s La Mar, Sonia’s, and trendy Barranco’s most popular haunts. The first part can be read here
April 24, 2009 | Peruvian Food
![Uru Chipaya face extinction through climate change [Featured]](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3010/2682884000_4940f5ee1e_m.jpg)
Its members belong to what is thought to be the oldest surviving culture in the Andes, a tribe that has survived for 4,000 years on the barren plains of the Bolivian interior. But the Uru Chipaya, who outlasted the Inca empire and survived the Spanish conquest, are warning that they now face extinction through climate change.
April 24, 2009 | News
Between the two neighbouring administrative areas of Maranga and Sulcovilca was Limatambo. Once a busy town surrounded by fields, only two structures still exist on the edge of San Isidro and in La Victoria.
April 23, 2009 | Archaeology, Culture & History, Lima City Guide
Arequipa may be all kinds of beautiful, but their is an obvious problem with the quality of life there and you only need to step onto a busy street to see what it is.
Random inspections carried out of Arequipa’s vehicles found the less the 13% of them met limits set on carbon monoxide emissions.
April 22, 2009 | News
A short photo-tour of the local market located on Plaza Túpac Amaru in the district of Magdalena del Mar.
April 21, 2009 | Lima City Guide
Take a look at this video of Afro-Peruvian dancing…
April 17, 2009 | Culture & History
![A River Cries Out: The Rimac River Project [Featured]](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3210/2681816738_3bc31ea46f_m.jpg)
In the old days, they called it El Río Hablador, The River That Speaks.
During the winter rains in the Andes, the water would rush down so forcefully the sound of the constant grinding of the giant boulders that line the riverbed seemed to make a noise akin to talking.
I think that still happens at the height of the rainy season in the Andes; but, mostly when I think of the Rimac in its current state, I just imagine a polluted, uncared-for, and abandoned river.
As the Rimac approaches, and traverses Lima, it is akin to a giant garbage disposal system.
April 16, 2009 | Culture & History, Opinion
