Lima, Peru | Friday 03 July 2009 22:44 | | |

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Brazil's President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, considers that the construction of the Inter Oceanic Highway will help reaching a real integration between Peru and Brazil, and will bring benefits to both countries as well, impulsing commercial and touristic trade among them.
Manuel Rosales, Venezuela's main opposition leader, is now in Peru after fleeing his homeland to escape a trial on corruption charges that he alleges are politically motivated.
If the world court at The Hague is fair, then we (Peru) will be right, said Ambassador Javier Pérez de Cuéllar when speaking on the maritime border dispute between Peru and Chile.
A city official in the remote Brazilian Amazon village of Envira told CNN that five members of the Kulina tribe are on the run after being accused of murdering, butchering and eating a farmer in a ritual act of cannibalism.
Members of an indigenous community on Thursday rescued seven people who were being held hostage by alleged leftist rebels in southwestern Colombia.
The indigenous leader Vilma Almendra, of the Piayo community, told the radio station Caracol that the natives went out to find the hostages allegedly held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) upon hearing of the kidnappings early Thursday.
"The whole guard, women, men, children, everyone went out in the chase. The criminals left five people with one of their number in a car, and then took two other people towards the mountains," Almendra said.
However, the indigenous people circled the kidnappers and forced them to release all their hostages.
The victims of the kidnapping had been traveling though indigenous territory between the villages of Jambalo and Silvia, in the Cauca province, when they were taken hostage by FARC.
According to Andina news agency, after their release, they were taken to Piayo settlements.
This week, Bolivians are in Lima to help organize a protest against Peru and Colombia for agreeing to sign a Free-Trade Agreement with the European Union.
Peru's youth and young people in Latin America in general prefer surfing the internet instead of watching television, revealed a survey done by the University of Navarra and Educared, a program organized by the Telefonica Foundation.
Today at the annual Government Leaders Forum—Americas in Miami, Microsoft Corp. signed a collaborative agreement with the Telefónica Foundation, an entity of Telefónica S.A., to promote the development and improvement of education through information and communication technology (ICT) for teachers and students in Latin America.
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