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What should countries do about the Amazon’s ‘uncontacted’ tribes?

The Mashco-Piro of Peru have turned up repeatedly along river banks in the Madre de Dios region, begging for food from boat travelers. Their brazen appearances with bows and arrows have sown panic in some remote settlements, and they have ransacked others — making off with pans, clothing, machetes, even the occasional rifle, which they do not know how to use.

Peru rescues 15 people, including children, held by Shining Path rebels

The rebels are holding 60 to 80 more children in hard-to-reach areas, the Peruvian government says.

Costa Ricans soon won’t need visas to travel to Peru

But that doesn’t mean travelers can hop on the next plane to Lima.

Army deployed over Peru mining project violence

Three people have died during weeks of protests against the Tía María copper mine in Peru. Local residents say the project will pollute their water and damage agriculture.

Travelers beware: Plane ticket to Peru no guarantee of visa

Demand for visas to Peru surged 500 percent after the flight bargains went on sale.

A changing climate could be destroying Chile’s mummies

Several thousands of years before the Egyptians, the Chinchorro people of South America were mummifying their dead. Lately, Chinchorro mummies have started to degrade.

Perú withdraws ambassador to Chile in espionage row

Relations soured between the two countries late last month after Peru claimed Chile paid three members of the Peruvian navy to spy on their own nation.

Peru was a crocodile paradise before the Amazon River went and ruined it

A new study found that seven species of crocodile inhabited the massive wetlands that once sat in the Amazon basin.

Peru fights gold fever with fire and military force

As many as 40,000 illegal miners — mostly poor, Quechua-speaking laborers from Peru's Andean highlands — have invaded some of the most pristine and biologically rich sections of ancient forest in the Amazon basin. In just a few years, they have laid waste to more than 120,000 acres, leaving behind Amazonian deserts of pestilent orange craters that bleed into the rivers when it rains.

Divided Latin America pits fast-growing Pacific nations against lagging Atlantic

The end of a decade-long boom driven by cheap money and strong commodity prices has deeply divided Latin America between fast-growth countries along the Pacific coast and stragglers on the Atlantic.

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