Dec 11 Watch 7:38 Peru's indigenous people call for protections against environmental threats By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 02 Chile lifts tsunami warnings after 8.2 magnitude earthquake; Hawaii braces for potential tsunami waves By Ellen Rolfes An 8.2 magnitude earthquake, with at least 60 aftershocks and minor earthquakes, struck 55 miles off the coast of Chile, prompting evacuations until early Wednesday. Tsunami warnings were placed on several areas in northern Chile overnight and… Continue reading
Dec 27 Watch In Peru, Gold Rush Leads to Mercury Contamination Concerns In remote regions of the Peruvian Amazon, extensive gold-mining operations have stirred major environmental concerns over mercury contamination in fish, fish-eating wildlife and humans. In collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, special correspondent Steve Sapienza reports. Continue watching
Nov 07 Watch Gold Lures Illegal Miners to Peru's Rainforests In southeastern Peru, where the Andes Mountains meet the Amazon, lies one of the world's richest ecosystems and the destructive lure of gold. In a collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, special correspondent Steve Sapienza reports on illegal… Continue watching
Jul 28 Humala Sworn in as Peru's President By News Desk Ollanta Humala, a former army officer, was sworn in as Peru's new president Thursday after narrowly defeating Keiko Fujimori, daughter of jailed former president Alberto Fujimori, in a second-round vote in June. Continue reading
Apr 11 In Peru, Voters Express Discontent by Backing Extreme Candidates, Analysts Say By Larisa Epatko No matter what happens in Peru's presidential runoff in June, change is coming. Judging from partial results from Sunday's first round of voting, the top two candidates represent a departure from current leaders and policies that some say helped maintain… Continue reading
Oct 07 Conversation: The Life and Work of Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to Efrain Kristal, a UCLA professor of comparative literature and of Spanish and Portuguese, about the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa. Continue reading
Oct 07 Thursday's Art Notes By Tom LeGro In today's arts and culture headlines, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa wins the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. Continue reading
Apr 01 HIV: A Killer... Under Control? By Ray Suarez Maybe you're old enough to remember when people first began dying of a disease that caused a catastrophic breakdown in the body's ability to fight disease. Young people were being killed off by infections the body normally kept in check… Continue reading
Apr 01 Watch In Peru, 'Elite' AIDS Patients Boost Vaccine Research Efforts In the final report in his series about health issues in Peru, Ray Suarez reports on the country's war on AIDS through research on rare patients whose bodies can effectively suppress the virus. Continue watching