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A small grove of huarango, the storied Peruvian tree that can live over a millennium, rests like a mirage amid the sand dunes on this city’s edge. The tree has provided the inhabitants of this desert with food and timber since before the Nazca...
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In his first year at San Marcos University, Hermenegildo Espejo barely spoke, and certainly not in class.
His Spanish was rudimentary, his accent an embarrassment. Classmates in Lima, a two-day trip from his Amazon home town, laughed at his grammatical...
Brazil’s Environment minister, Carlos Minc, is celebrating the pace of Brazilian deforestation. The last numbers released by the National Institute of Space Studies (Inpe) this Wednesday, November 4, shows that Brazil in September has downed 400...
All the bureaucracy and corruption the world knows about that plagues Brazilian life and the economy in particular is preventing Brazil from becoming the main port of entry for products bound to the Mercosur. Other alternatives instead are being...
Although Brazil has the reputation of being more sexually liberal than its Spanish-speaking neighbours, Brazilians suffer their own fears of stigma when it comes to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) – the target of a new public health...
Les Echos, a French daily, has shown a little of what they say happened backstage during the negotiations between Brazil and France to buy the French military jet Rafale. Trying to upstage his French colleague, American president Barack Obama called...
Brazil has come out of recession after its economy grew in the April-to-June quarter.
The largest economy in Latin America expanded by 1.9% in the second quarter from the previous three months.
Data also showed Sweden emerged from recession on Friday,...
A vessel which sank carrying $18m (£11m) in gold and silver ingots has been found in the Magellan Straits off the coast of Argentina.
The cargo belonged to Argentine mining companies Cerro Vanguardia and Minera Triton and was on its way from mines in...
The Beatles are about to become radio stars in a whole new way. NASA on Monday will broadcast the Beatles’ song “Across the Universe” across the galaxy to Polaris, the North Star.
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