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Peru company to build $240 million wind farm

Peru's government says renewable energy company Iberoperuana Inversiones SAC is developing a $240 million, 240 megawatt wind farm on Peru's southern coast. Peru Energy Minister Juan Valdivia Romero says the park will provide electricity to more than 80,000 families and that production will reach 20 megawatts by the end of 2008. (AP - click here to read complete article)


Peru town rues taking name of former president's wife

When a group of poor Peruvians named their desert town after Satomi Kataoka, the Japanese hotel magnate married to former President Alberto Fujimori, they thought it would bring good luck. But now they are in a jam. They think Kataoka, who lives in Japan and is nearly 20 years younger than 70-year-old Fujimori wants to divorce him -- and it's too late to change the name of their patch of sand. (Reuters - click here to read complete article by Terry Wade)


Marine Channels Near-Death Experience Into Helping Poor in Peru

 Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Todd Bowers knows the exact date and time an insurgent bullet embedded itself in his head: October 17, 2004 at 11:36 a.m. At the time, Bowers was serving in Fallujah with a U.S. Marine Corps civil affairs unit. His job was to help Iraqi residents rebuild their lives — literally and figuratively — by repairing battle-damaged homes. (Fox News - click here to read complete article by David Mac Dougall)


High prices perk Peru coffee sales

Exports - Peru's coffee exports may jump 41 per cent this year on a record harvest and rising prices, Foreign Minister Mercedes Araoz says. Global sales of Peruvian coffee are set to rise to $600 million this year from $425 million in 2007, Araoz told reporters in Lima. (Herald News Service - click here to read complete article)


Peru's Re-Occuring World Cup Nightmare

Peru are currently sat firmly at the bottom of the Conmebol standings for World Cup qualification with three points and a goal difference of -12. With six games played and twelve remaining all is not lost but I wouldn’t hold your breath. Peru are an original World Cup team having been involved in the first one but have only managed three appearances since. (bleacher report - click here to read complete article by Anthony S.)