Living in Peru : your everyday companion

Peru: National Police Report

Businessman in Miraflores commits suicide

48-year-old Miguel Percy Montalvo Moreno jumped off of the fourth floor of his office building located on the second block of Diez Canseco Avenue in Miraflores at approximately 7 o' clock in the morning. Montalvo was the general manager of the company. One of his close acquaintances stated that he could not imagine why Miguel had committed suicide because he was a stable person.


Truck crash

Five people were killed today after a truck fell off of a150 meter (492 foot) cliff in the province of La Convención located in Cusco, Peru. Highway police reported that the truck had fallen in the afternoon near San Cristóbal bridge in the district of Quellouno. Cleto Cabrera Cortés, the mayor of the area helped in rescue efforts and stated that the truck had fallen off the cliff because the driver had been traveling at excessive speeds.

Locals rob passengers on bus

Three people were shot on a bus which was overtaken by 10 criminals who robbed the passengers on board. The bus belongs to Molina-Unión bus company and was going from Ayacucho to Huancayo. One of the passengers stated the men had their faces covered with white rags and were locals because they were speaking Quechua.

Red Cross thieves caught

Peru's highway police caught 3 thieves in Lima which had stolen a truck full of equipment that belonged to the German Red Cross. It was reported that the thieves had stolen the truck just a few hours before their capture. Gustavo Cabanillas Linares, Julio Martínez Elguera and Raúl Muñoz Flores were caught at the intersection of Elmer Faucett Avenue and Canta Callao Avenue.

 | | |

• Food : "Seven Gastronomic Wonders of Peru" Final on July 26th
• Sports : Peru beats Tunisia in U-18 Volleyball Youth World Championship
• Law and Order : EU willing to strengthen anti-drug cooperation with Peru
• Business : Peru's "Astrid y Gastón" considered as an example in the business
• Sports : Peru beat Canada 3 - 0 in Pan American Volley Cup

# Carlos Bugatti says :
4 November, 2007 [ 01:59 ]

It is a shame that the passengers on the bus did not have pistols.

# mericorps says :
4 November, 2007 [ 11:19 ]

I wonder why it is that countries with stricter gun control have less crime than countries with less control?

# Michael says :
4 November, 2007 [ 15:53 ]

mericorps;

Violent crime, maybe.  Take a look at this:

Top 10 countries for crime (2006 data)

General crime is highest in countries that have stricter gun control.  This includes all types of crime - including violent crime.  Would it be interesting to know that violent crimes in Canada, the UK, and Australia are all higher than the US?  And all three countries have much stricter gun control.  In 2005, Scotland was reported by the United Nations to have the worst violent crime in the developed world.

Violent Crime Question at Google

While I'm sure guns don't help, violent crime is a problem because of people's actions; not because they have access to guns.

# mericorps says :
4 November, 2007 [ 16:44 ]

I traced the answer to the NRA, and after study, found that they pick and choose certain crimes to include and not include, and leave out certain crimes, skewing their statistics.

Further, accidental gun deaths are also leaft out of the report.

I prefer to have ALL the facts, not pick and choose like it is a salad bar.

# Juan Blake says :
5 November, 2007 [ 10:50 ]

Criminals love gun control. It makes their job of ripping people off a lot less compilcated.

# Niclas Thein says :
5 November, 2007 [ 12:09 ]

If other passengers on the bus would have had guns and would have been willing to use them the new story might read very different: "several dead after shot out on bus". With gun control only criminals have guns and are less likely to use them.

# mericorps says :
5 November, 2007 [ 16:27 ]

Juan, that soundbite means nothing since there are really no honest statistics that back you up.

# Juan Blake says :
5 November, 2007 [ 17:14 ]

Corps, the soundbite coming from you is of no importance. I have provided my sources in the past, and you with yours. Your so called sound bites I think of as something I just simply wipe off the bottom of my shoe. It is a funny thing when it comes to people being afforded their Second Amendment rights in the states. Folks like you believe you have the right to say that no else has any pertaining to this subject. Past history dictated to the Founding Fathers of the United States the necessity of the Second Amendment not so much to protect ourselves from the criminal element, but to protect ourselves from our own governments. .--> A quote from a man that the Shinning Path admires even to this day; those that are left that is. "All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way no guns can ever be used to command the party." Mao Zedong.

# mericorps says :
5 November, 2007 [ 20:50 ]

consindering your sources have included both people affiliated with the Klan and NAZI parties and people who think buring people alive is just and human...I will take you for what you are worth.

# Rob says :
5 November, 2007 [ 21:21 ]

Speaking of Nazi's they wanted gun control also.

"The Berlin Police President, Count Wolf Heinrich von Helldorf, announced that as a result of a police activity in the last few weeks the entire Jewish population of Berlin had been 'disarmed' with the confiscation of 2,569 hand weapons, 1,702 firearms and 20,000 rounds of ammunition."

# A.K. says :
5 November, 2007 [ 22:26 ]

If I remember my Peruvian History correctly, I "think" Peruvian gun control was born out of revolution or terrorist pervention instead of violent crime. Anyone know when these laws were enacted?

# Juan Blake says :
6 November, 2007 [ 10:01 ]

Corps, that is your problem. When ever someone offers sound logic in reference to why the people of the United States have the Second Amendment right to bear arms, you deem them as nazi's or members of the klan. This is classic leftist, socialist propaganda of which you are a part. The Second Amendment right applies to all colors & creeds. It is typical of Socialist/Communist attitudes to undermine this basic and most important right. I have been to Autswitz/Birkenau and saw first hand the results of people not being able to have this same right. The blond hair, tooth brushes, combs, suit cases, baby shoes, zyklon b gas canisters, & every other thing socialist. At the end of the day, I walked away with a lump in my throat. And some how for you to label me as a nazi or being an affiliate of hate groups is despicable. Of course at the end of the day, you are a despicable individual to say the least.

# Fred says :
6 November, 2007 [ 10:20 ]

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered races to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so." Adolf Hitler. If Blake is a member of the nazi party, I doubt he would be advocating free people to have guns. And most members of hate groups often deny that concentration camps even existed.

# Carlos Bugatti says :
6 November, 2007 [ 10:30 ]

What else would people expect from americorps. The bad thing is that americorps is down here polluting my country with his bulls---. We have enough of that as it is.

# mericorps says :
6 November, 2007 [ 12:06 ]

I have said it before, and I am proud to say it again.  If I keep pissing off the racists and the thugs, then I am doing something right.

You can take your anti-American klan based rhetoric to someone else, Most people on this board are too smart for you.

# Juan Blake says :
6 November, 2007 [ 13:35 ]

Like I said before. Dealing with a SFB like you americorps, is the same as to wipe something off of the bottom of my shoe. People are to smart for me? Who is people? Are you suggesting people as in one of your many aliases SFB?

# Dan Love says :
12 November, 2007 [ 14:52 ]

Occording to the U.S. National crime statistics 1/2 (about 30,000) of suicides in the U.S. are caused by firearms. Eliminating firearms is not likely to stop or reduce the rate of suicide as the statistics indicate that many other options are available for suicide, and certain other social and individual factors are more important than acces to firearms. Second In the U.S. 2/3 of homicides are caused by firearms, again the statistics show that while a firearm is a criminals weapon of choice, there are many other options available to kill someone. If statistics showed that almost all suicides and homicides (abve 90%) were committed with a firearm then there would be a much stronger case for gun control, however the statistics in the U.S. do show that there are other factors that are more important than access to firearms. Third Democratic Republics such as the U.S. and West European countries do show that internal violence does tend to simmer, however they are much less likely to erupt into full scale civil war, and to engage in warfare with other similar governments than governments of other forms, such as communism, or dictatorships. While for a time a dictatorship may have very little internal termoil (low crime), when it is time to change the dictator there does tend to be explosive vilence whose murder rates far exceed anything that has happened within the U.S. since the American Civil war. Statistically speaking, by far more people are killed by political and dictatorial regimes than by any common street criminal, which leaves us with a choice. Do we protect the rights of each individual to defend himself, knowing full well that there will be a simmer of violence, or do we disarm the entire population and let the possibility a political regime explode with violence on the population. Dictatorships and communist regimes are no stranger to our Latin American Countries. I would say, by and far the most important factor in the homicide rates of every country than any firearm, is the political choices that each country makes to defend individual freedoms or not.

Name

Email

Notify me via e-mail of new comments to this entry

Code :

Comment

• These comments are the property of their respective authors.
• Currently we only allow english comments.
• Por ahora solo se permiten comentarios en ingles.