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Neighbors complained to the Municipality and the Prosecution but the claim seems to be frozen.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   SULLANA, Peru— The city seems to suffer from nyctophobia , the pathologic ffear to remain silent. It’s one of few cities where there are neighbors who decided to fight the noise. A hundred of them has opened a Facebook group to agree legal actions purposed to turn down the urban sound. At Barrio Sur, Martin Herrera Reto is like a coordinator and manager. He lives on Hipolito Unanué Street, that begins at the gate of Luciano Castillo Colonna Sub-Regional Direction of Health, then runs in parallel to Chira River . He has got a view to the valley from his backyard: “we hear the music like it were right here, sometimes it lasts through overnight,” Near his home, between Arica and Paita Streets and next to the stair going down Huamán de los Heros Pier, an apparently informal gymnasium works noisily. “It begins at 7:30 in the morning, then i...

A new book is, actually, a guideline to reshape environmental conflicts and to sustain a non-violent life.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   SANTA CRUZ, California – Latin America seems to be the deadliest region in the world for defending the environment. Since 2012, Global Witness , "specifically ... has identified Brazil, Honduras, and Peru as places where this issue concentrates," University of California in Santa Cruz (UCSC)'s Michael Wilson Becerril states in his doctoral thesis, now a book titled Resisting Extractivism , released through Vanderbilt University Press.   It took Wilson almost one year and a half of more than 250 interviews with mining executives and managers, community leaders, local people, journalists, academics, and anyone who had something to say, especially about four paradigmatic social conflicts caused by extractive industries in Northern Peru — mining , to be concrete.   "One-third of the world’s mining investment concentrates in Lat...