Civil war threatens to break out in the Andean region of Puno

Civil war threatens to break out between two districts in rural Puno after the recent deaths of 1o people and many more injured in the community of Chacayaje in the district of Ituata.

October 6, 2009 | News

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El Comercio

El Comercio is the oldest surviving newspaper in Peru. It was founded in 1839 and its circulation is about 120,000.

The centre-right newspaper is said to be the most respected of the Peruvian newspapers and has had a long history to make it so. Independence and Truth was its motto through the late 1800′s and until challenged by the military Government of left-leaning Juan Velasco Alvarado who seized the newspaper, and the country, in the 1970s. Independence and Truth were put on hold as Velasco persecuted dissidents and political enemies. When the democratic Government re-took power after an economic collapse, the paper was given back to its private owners as its first act.

February 10, 2007 | Modern Peru, News

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