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Peru: Morning News Roundup - Friday June 27

Peru Trial To Pit Spymaster Against President

Six months into the murder trial of Alberto Fujimori, prosecutors have produced little hard evidence that the former Peruvian president approved of a death squad to eliminate rebel collaborators. But they're about to put a blockbuster witness on the stand in a trial that is riveting the nation. The de-facto head of Peru's intelligence service during Mr. Fujimori's decade in power, Vladimiro Montesinos, allegedly organized the Colina group, a squad of army killers who slaughtered 25 civilians during Peru's war against leftist rebels. He finally faces his former boss in court on Monday. (AP - click here to read complete article by Monte Hayes) 


Peru Focus of Rotary Club Project

Some Rotary Club members in Moore County are joining forces with their counterparts in Peru to improve the quality of life for some very needy children. The North Carolinians have joined forces with the Rotary Club of San Isidro Este-Lima, Peru, to outfit a classroom and to bring running water to the 115 children who reside in the Westfalia Kinderdorf orphanage in Cieneguilla, Peru (about two hours outside the capital city of Lima). (The Pilot - click here to read complete article)


Holmen Rotary takes on Peruvian water project

The efforts of the Holmen Rotary Club will mean clean, safe drinking water for hundreds — maybe even thousands — of people in a poor section of Lima, Peru. Last winter, the club, which is only about a year old, decided to take on its first international project. Dean McHugh, chairman of the club's international committee, went online looking for causes that would work and came across a proposed project from a Rotary Club in Lima that sought help getting water filters to an extremely poor section of the city of 10 million. (Holmen Courier - click here to read complete article by Randy Erickson)


Peru gunman shoots football supporters

A student has been shot dead and seven other Universitario club fans have been wounded while on their way to a league soccer match in Peru. Police Gen Javier Uribe told Lima's Radioprogramas that a gunman on a motorcycle yesterday opened fire on the eight fans, who were on their way to the National Stadium for a match between Universitario and Sporting Cristal. (Wales Online - click here to read complete article)


Hunter to travel to Peru, not Nigeria, on goodwill mission

The shoes will still make their way to Africa but Ron Hunter and his IUPUI basketball players won't accompany them. Hunter, who has collected more than 250,000 pairs of sneakers as part of his goodwill mission, Shoes for Hope, has had to shift locales because of escalating travel concerns in Nigeria. Recent information from the African country, including a new Muslim law that legislates how women may dress and when they can appear in public, forced Hunter to alter the team's July trip to Lima, Peru. (ESPN - click here to read complete article by Dana O'Neil)

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