Peru’s Interior and Culture ministries are discussing a proposal to create a special police unit in charge of taking care of cultural heritage, state news agency Andina reported. “It is a topic that we’ve been discussing for a while to see about …
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Palace exhibition of Machu Picchu pieces to continue until Sunday 17
If you haven’t yet seen the Machu Picchu objects that Yale University has returned to Peru, now is your chance to see both the pieces and the halls of the government palace on the Plaza de Armas. The exhibition of some 360 key objects will remain ope…
Machu Picchu Artifacts To Return Home
After years of arguments, some quite bitter, Yale has finally agreed to send back some of the many artifacts it holds, originally taken from Machu Picchu and other ancient Peruvian archaeological sites. Some of these are due to arrive in Cusco in time for the 100th year anniversary of Hiram Bingham’s rediscovery of the citadel. The rest will reach Peru by December 2012.
100 Years Of Machu Picchu
It’s true: a whole century has passed since Hiram Bingham re-discovered Machu Picchu, and Peru will be celebrating with typical enthusiasm. In the words of one government official, Culture Minister Juan Ossio has said “Celebrations must be over the top.”
Vargas Llosa throws support behind Toledo
Peruvian author and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa has thrown his support behind former president Alejandro Toledo’s bid for a second shot at the country’s highest office. Vargas Llosa, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature last year, sa…
Looking into the devil’s jaws
La República daily distributed DVD copies with its newspaper on April 5 of a documentary film that retraces the murder 19 years ago of a university professor and nine students by a military death squad. The distribution of La Cantuta – En la boca de…
Government Palace opens doors to show Machu Picchu artifacts
Artifacts from Machu Picchu, which were taken from Peru almost a century ago and recently returned by Yale University, have been put on display at the Government Palace, state news agency Andina reported. Authorities have set up 16 showcases to display…
Fujimoristas pledge not to repeat “self-coup” on 19 year anniversary
Representatives from Peru’s Fuerza 2011 party pledged Tuesday not to repeat the 1992 “self-coup” of jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori if its presidential candidate and daughter of the former president, Keiko Fujimori, is elected. On April 5, 1…
OP-ED – The 2011 Election: Facing a leap back to the bad old days
By Nicholas Asheshov Special to the Peruvian Times With the short end of a week before voting on Sunday, April 10, the first round of Peru’s presidential elections has lurched into a curtain-raiser to a bitter run-off featuring a stark choice b…
Twenty-one dead, numerous injured as bus plunges 200 meters in southern highlands
At least 21 people are dead after an inter-provincial bus racing through Peru’s southern highlands went over a cliff early Friday, daily El Comercio reported. The accident occurred at 5:00a.m. when a bus belonging to the Virgen del Carmen transport c…
Yale to return all Machu Picchu artifacts by December 2012
Yale University is planning to send to Peru the last shipment of Machu Picchu artifacts by December 2012, state news agency Andina reported. The first shipment of the archaeological pieces, which were taken from Peru almost a century ago, arrived on We…
Ingemmet installs monitoring system at El Misti
The Arequipa office of the Peruvian geology, mining and metallurgy agency Ingemmet is setting up a system around the crater of the El Misti volcano to warn of any eruptions, state news agency Andina reported. The system includes the installation of one…
