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Friends of Terror in Peru

Thursday's vote by the European Parliament to take the Peruvian guerrilla group known as the Tupac Amaru (aka MRTA) off its terrorist list has Peru in an uproar. For good reason: The MRTA is notorious for kidnapping, torturing and murdering civilians to advance its political agenda. More recently, Peruvian officials have linked it to Hugo Chávez's "Bolivarian Movement," which seeks to destabilize democracies in Latin America, and to the Colombian rebel group FARC. (The Wall Street Journal - click here to read complete article by Mary Anastasia O'Grady)


Peru fears Bolivian camps harbor rebels

Bolivia's leftist government has established dozens of outposts in the high Andes region of Peru, which Peruvian officials fear have become centers of revolutionary training that threaten to revive Marxist-inspired insurgencies that terrorized the nation for decades. Some are located in public buildings; others operate out of private homes. (The Washington Times - click here to read complete article by Martin Arostegui)


Peru, Chile battle for best-pisco title

Peru says Chilean pisco is «bad» and «watered-down. Them's fightin' words in a long-running, bilateral battle to claim the «domain of origin» title for the fiery liquor. Agricultural Minister Ismael Benavides fired off the provocative adjectives on Friday _ a day after Chile declared May 15 «National Pisco Day. The dispute over the clear grape brandy goes back to the 1879-83 War of the Pacific. (AP - click here to read complete article)