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Where La Laptop Hits El Camino: The OLPC Roll-out in Peru

After months--nay years--of anticipation, criticism, setbacks and praise, the One Laptop Per Child program is finally taking the diminutive slab of highly-designed tech to its intended audience in a large way. Peru, one of the earliest and strongest supporters of the OLPC, is beginning to ship them in large numbers to some very poor school districts, and MIT Technology Review has a well-researched tale of how it's all going. (Core77 - click here to read complete article posted by Carl Alviani)


Peru Takes the Other Path

It's about 90 minutes flying time from Lima to this jungle metropolis of 400,000. But daily life here is light years away from what it is in the Peruvian capital. After almost two decades of gradual reforms by the central government, Lima is today home to first-world services, globally competitive businesses, shopping malls and an emerging middle class. But here in the hub of the Peruvian Amazon, living standards are all too similar to what they were 30 years ago. (The Wall Street Journal - click here to read complete article by Mary Anastasia O'Grady)


We Are Helping the Poor, Not Supporting Terrorists

The Journal chose to publish a photograph of George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Institute, in connection with an April 28 op-ed "Friends of Terror in Peru" by Mary Anastasia O'Grady. The article seeks to link armed terrorist organizations and groups connected to Hugo Chavez to human rights organizations and other nonprofit associations in Peru. (The Wall Street Journal - click here to read complete article)


Food crisis: summit in Venezuela, protests in Peru

Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez convened an extraordinary meeting of member nations of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) in Caracas April 23 to discuss the world food crisis. At the meeting, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Bolivian President Evo Morales, Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage, and Chávez signed a series of accords to promote mutual agricultural development, create a joint food distribution network, and create a $100 million ALBA food security fund. (World War 4 Report - click here to read complete article submitted by Bill Weinberg)


22-year-old Israeli murdered in Peru

A 22-year-old Israeli tourist was found murdered in Arequipa, in southern Peru, the Foreign Ministry announced Sunday night. The victim was identified as Tamar Shahak. Israel Radio reported that she was an announcer for Army Radio and a correspondent for Walla. According to the report, Shahak was in the middle of an extended trip through South America. (The Jerusalem Post - click here to read complete article)


Malaysian social worker gravely ill in Peru prison

Punitha K.K. Samy, 50, was arrested after authorities at the international airport in Lima found 3kg of cocaine in her luggage. On Tuesday, Peruvian prison authorities contacted Dr Kalai Kumar, a friend and former employer of Punitha here, to reveal that the woman was gravely ill. (nstonline - click here to read complete article by Fadhal A. Ghani)