Many Fear Peru Forgetting Truth Report
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A year ago, a truth commission's final report cited widespread abuses by soldiers and police in putting down a 20-year insurgency that left 70,000 people dead.
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In Latin America, the memory of the "disappeared" never went away. In the United States, they were hardly ever known.
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Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was due to set foot in Peru for the first time in seven years on Saturday after being extradited from Chile to face charges of human rights abuse and corruption.
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By Marco Aquino LIMA, Peru  - An armed group which took over apolice station in southern Peru and killed four officers todemand the resignation of unpopular President Alejandro Toledowill not surrender on Monday as planned, its leader said.
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By Eduardo Orozco LIMA, Peru  - A Peruvian journalist seized by mobof armed villagers in a remote Andean jungle, was released onThursday four days after he was abducted, beaten and tied to apost for supporting a copper mining project, police said.
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Former President Alberto Fujimori returned to Peru on Saturday to face charges of corruption and sanctioning death-squad killings, a grim homecoming for the strongman who fled the country seven years ago as his government collapsed in scandal.
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By Jude Webber LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian President Alejandro Toledosaid on Saturday he wanted new judges to try Shining Pathleader Abimael Guzman after the "shameful spectacle" he stagedat the start of his terrorism retrial, punching the air withhis fist and chanting rebel slogans.
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NUEVO JERUSALEM, Peru -- TomÃÂ¡s Maynas Carijano strolled through his tiny jungle farm, pinching leaves, shaking his head. The rain forest spread lushly in all directions -- covering what oil maps call Block 1AB.
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He may be a fugitive with nearly two dozen criminal charges facing him, but former President Alberto Fujimori is still Peru's most popular politician, according to a survey released Tuesday.
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Peru's "White Mountain Range" may soon have to change its name.
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LIMA, Peru  - The sister of Peruvian PresidentAlejandro Toledo was placed under house arrest on Tuesday by ajudge investigating accusations she ran a "forgery factory"falsifying thousands of signatures to get Toledo's partyregistered for elections in 2000, her lawyer said.
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Hundreds of people in Peru become sick after visiting the crash area of what is said to be a meteorite.
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Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori lost his fight on Friday to avoid extradition from Chile to Lima, where he faces charges of human rights abuse and corruption dating from his 1990-2000 rule.
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Days before Peru&#039;s presidential runoff, the headquarters of the country&#039;s oldest and most disciplined political party is buzzing with furious campaign activity. Come election day, its old-fashioned, spread-the-wealth politics could return Alan Garcia to power.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo  was personally involved with faking signatures to register his  party for elections in 2000 and paid people for the forgeries,  a woman who said she witnessed the events said on Friday.
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Researchers claim to have solved the mystery of the people who simply do not count. It could be because they are lost for words. The Piraha of the Amazon have almost legendary status in language research.
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Peru recently made a decision that appears destined to result in the equivalent of a global &quot;no smoking&quot; sign, a development that spells yet more trouble for tobacco companies.