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Background: Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1824. After a dozen years of military rule, Peru returned to democratic leadership in 1980, but experienced economic problems and the growth of a violent insurgency. President Alberto FUJIMORI's election in 1990 ushered in a decade that saw a dramatic turnaround in the economy and significant progress in curtailing guerrilla activity. Nevertheless, the president's increasing reliance on authoritarian measures and an economic slump in the late 1990s generated mounting dissatisfaction with his regime. FUJIMORI won reelection to a third term in the spring of 2000, but international pressure and corruption scandals led to his ouster by Congress in November of that year. A caretaker government oversaw new elections in the spring of 2001, which ushered in Alejandro TOLEDO as the new head of government; his presidency has been hampered by allegations of corruption.

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By holamundo
October 4th 2008

Congratulacion!!!!!!!!!

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Jackie und Uwe
Die gluecklichen Eltern. Herzlichen Glueckwunsch euch Beiden!!!!!!!

Que pena que no estuvimos en Pero porque no podimos cambiar los vuelos. Por eso, no estuvimos con Jackie y Uwe cuando nacieron los bebes. Entonces queremos saludar a ellos con este blog. Congratulacion!!!!!!!!!!! Estamos muy, muy feliz que los 4 estan sanos y que Jackie esta muy bien. Vamos a celebrar pensando en los bebes y los padres! Y Esperamos que veamos los 4 nuevos Struhallas pronto. Saludos de Bolivia y muchos besos para todos! Da wir leider bei der Geburt der Vierlinge nicht in Peru bei Uwe und Jackie sein konnten (wir konnten den Flug nicht mehr aendern laut [View Full Entry]

Zum ersten mal ein rebellischer Schrei :-)

By Flo
August 30th 2008

an offally good time

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So we begin in Barranco, a suburb of Lima which is described as the bohemian artists quarter. I heard alot of negatives about Lima so my expectations were not too high. But we arrived to the very modern airport straight into the taxi our hostel (called One Hostel...it was really great) had sent for us. As I would soon discover, things work pretty well here. Granted we haven´t deviated from the well beaten path just yet, but the infrastructure in Lima is very well developed and there is clearly alot of money here...how well it is distrubited is yet to be [View Full Entry]

By Henry the Navigator
July 24th 2008

S. America Pt. 2

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Back in S. America but this time w my brother Nick. We arrived in Lima on July 21 but unfortunatly his back didn´t arrive until the following day! We stayed in an area called Barranco at the Barranco Backpackers Inn. Very nice place, clean, great help w getting back his bag. We met a few people from the US, Spain and Canada. Randomly we ran into a kid from Oregon at on of the church/museums and we ended up going Paragliding together. The weather wasnt the clearest but still it was great. [View Full Entry]

By flaquita
July 24th 2008

Please fasten your seatbelts...

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Lima vanuit de (v)lucht

Er was eens... een verschrikkelijk oncomfortabel vliegtuigzitje aan een aangedampt raampje waar je je benen net niet in je nek moet vouwen, idyllisch gelegen aan de hygienische voorzieningen die om de haverklap gebarricadeerd werden door individuen met hevige ontlasting of letterlijk en figuurlijk schreeuwlelijke zuigelingen. Reken daarnaast een brave buur met een afgrijselijk onverstaanbaar Londens accent, de actieve vijftigplussers van Joker en een paar geîrriteerde Spañols en je hebt een mooie doorsnee van mijn prachtige 14u durende Iberiavlucht naar Lima. Ave Maria, dat was me het tripje w [View Full Entry]

By keebs
June 21st 2008

Peru

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Flying over Colorado
On my way to Atlanta

After landing in Lima last night I checked into a hostel in the district of Barranco. I was really overwhelmed about being in a foreign country. I don´t know that I ever felt that lost when I was in Europe. I went to sleep to see if I´d feel better in the morning. When I woke up I had a BBQ pork bun that Mom had packed me before I left and eventually made my way outside. I wandered to the shore, and around the district of Miraflores. After mustering courage to ride unofficial public transport I boarded a taxi collectivo [View Full Entry]

By livo3
June 7th 2008

The Beginning

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Graham and I are currently waiting to get our taxi to the airport to catch the flight to Cusco and begin our Spanish course, so what better time to fill you in on the first few days of our adventure. To say that everything has gone smoothly would be a lie. Firstly, our connection from Madrid to Lima was cancelled and hence we´d need to catch a flight at 08.40 on Tuesday morning, following a brief stay in a Madrid hotel. This wasn´t particularly bad news as we expected a swanky hotel to be offered by the airline Comet and there [View Full Entry]

By rachy and jakey
June 5th 2008

Business-Class to Dented Taxis

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View from the Plane
The silver bit is the Amazon river

This being the first entry I feel obliged to blog our means of arrival as well as our first few days in Barranco. Having flown for two and a half hours on a plane boasting legroom about three inches shorter than the length of your thigh, I was surprised to discern the words ´business class´ from the attendant who took our tickets on boarding out long-haul from Madrid. For some completely unknown reason we had been upgraded and spent the next 12 hours in luxury! Seats reclining to a fully horizontal position offering massage and memorising your most comfortable position, menus [View Full Entry]

By jamesinperu
May 21st 2008

chicha

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Barranco Town Centre

afternoon ¿Chicha? had this strange purple drink at lunch today its made from maize and its really sweet, very popular here and very tasty ... however the guineapig carcass in the supermarket did not look so appealing. had a nice walk to the next district (miraflores) this morning and stayed there most of the afternoon avec our new american friend Erin. Its like the Kensington of london so we felt right at home haha. They have a great big shopping centre set into the side of the cliff overlooking the sea hwich was really cool. Stayed there for lunch and then [View Full Entry]

By jamesinperu
May 20th 2008

no entiendo !

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at last ! we are here, a day later than expected but here at last. the flight was really long but we survived. my one meal for the twelve hr flight was peas,carrots and greenbeans with some tea... yum yum. The stupid guy at immigration only gave me and péte 30 days visa even though we are allowed 90 so now we have to go to the embassy and pay for an extension muh, the ride from the airport to the hostel was possibly the scariest taxi in history. About ten minutes in they pulled us to the side of the [View Full Entry]

By rcsisters
March 26th 2008

Happy be-lated Easter!

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We are leaving today! We have been in Lima, the capital of Peru, for the last couple of days. We are staying in a very wealthy area here and it feels as though we aren´t even in Peru! There are American stores everywhere, including Starbucks and Tony Romas, BMW cars, very few street vendors, and less amigos greeting us with a buenos dias. The city is incredibly divided between the extremely wealthy and poor, and it is a stark reminder of the reality here in South America. Easter Sunday was spent waking up at 4:30 a.m. to watch the procession of [View Full Entry]

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