Peru adopts "punctuality" drive
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Guidebooks warn tourists of Peruvian time -- be fashionably late for parties and dinner or risk a faux pas.
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LONDON, Jan 18 (IPS) - Peru gave the world the potato, and the potato now  offers indigenous people around the world a new recipe for  securing their rights.
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Earlier than usual switch to daylight saving time causes some snags, but no major disruptions are reported.
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PISCO, Peru -- Carmen Angulo tells visitors to step carefully when entering her home. Pots and pans lie to the right, clothes to the left, and her three children, her parents and a few nieces and nephews nap on mattresses tossed on the floor.
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By John Noble Wilford Early people in Peru, like others in antiquity, went to great lengths to track the rising and setting of the Sun through the seasons as a guide for agriculture, an object of worship and a mystical demonstration of a ruler's power.
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AREQUIPA, Peru  - Nine police officers were released on Friday night after being held by angry protesters for six hours in southern Peru, a police chief said.
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By Marco Aquino CUZCO, Peru  - South American leaders on Wednesdaylaunched a regional integration pact they said would go beyondrhetoric and usher in European-style unity, but only half thefuture bloc's 12 presidents turned up to sign it.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - When 30-year-old Jose Bermudez  abandoned Lima for the promise of a job in Chile, he was among  the last in his family to leave Peru.
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LIMA, Peru  - An armed group that took over apolice station in southern Peru on New Year's Day and killedfour officers will not surrender at midday as planned, itsleader Antauro Humala told Reuters Monday.
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Second-term presidents often find comfort in foreign policy and overseas travel as they lose clout at home. A statesman-abroad strategy, however, will not work particularly well for President Bush on a six-day Latin American trip designed to signal a revitalized U.S. commitment to the region.
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Travel: Traditional August crawl likely on roads.
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Chile's Supreme Court approves the extradition of Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori.
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Chile announced Thursday it will try to head off power rationing by cutting electrical voltage, distributing efficient light bulbs and extending daylight savings time.
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ROME, Sep 25 (IPS) - With former Peru president Alberto Fujimori and his  intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos in jail, Peru faces a new  era. How did it come to happen, and what is in store?
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Deforestation and climate change are returning the mosquito-borne disease to parts of Peru after 40 years.
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Jet lag isn't just caused by time zone shifts.
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By Jude Webber LIMA, Peru  - Peru named a little-known humanrights lawyer as the new state attorney on Monday to leadinvestigations into the corruption that flourished during the1990-2000 government of former President Alberto Fujimori.