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The social issue caused by the handmade mining.   By Amaya Camacho Patty del Pilar; Mendoza Mondragón Fiorella Paredes Arcelles Grissel; Sandoval Torres Carlos Alberto; Troncos Merino Karina; Vargas Jiménez Blanca Christhel (School of Communication Sciences, UNP)   General Framework Currently in Peru, we see the mining, as well as it’s brought positive consequences for the economy, it’s caused different problems in the mining workers, the population living around, and the environment, because in all those people it’s seen their health affected as this activity is risky, and having no support from the government in any emergency case.   About the social consequences, the miners are going through serious health problems because many teenage workers die or are hospitalized every year due to injuries acquired while working. So, the people react to those problems breaking out demonstrations and strikes which they manifest not only they mistreat the farmer commu...

While the world runs rushly to the future, the land of bocadillos still doubts amid an eternal present… or past.   By LUIS PAUCAR TEMOCHE   AYABACA, Peru –Ninety-nine miles after Piura City , Socchabamba [Sokchabamba] appears for the first time behind the window of a truck that I took random in Ayabaca. The picture of its disperse mountains and melancholic vegetation hasn’t more than splatting with the mud splashing out along the way.   I’m going to search the missing ones at the highlands, who were and who will be, to the land where the drug trafficking continues to be the invisible curtain killing police officers and flourishing like the coca leaves crops. The landscape hasn’t clear in the 45-minute trip, and the fog has been the only companion since we picked up eight miles behind. Nelly is my mate beside. With her, I departure on Ayabaca’s poderoso Cautivo , 1:00 am. Sunday. And now I look at her again, took in a black rod for not falling despite the ...

The first bike ride play that celebrated  the signature of ecuador-Peru Peace Agreement. By Nelson Peñaherrera C . All photographs provided by Radio Nuevo Norte and distributed by FACTORTIERRA. The pictures belong to the first edition of bike ride play on September 19th, 1999, and this is the first time they are released than any website before. Km or Mile 0, Sullana City, Peru. Altitude: 60 m or 196 ft. The starting point since the first edition on September 19th, 1999. Km 25 or Mile 16, Valle de los Incas, near Tambogrande City, Peru. Altitude: 72 m or 236 ft. MACARÁ INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE, Borderline between Loja, ecuador and Piura, Peru - It is another day among several days when buses cross over Macará River , the flow that after running towards the West, meets Catamayo River and forms Chira River . Tourists, salespersons and people with mostly domestic agendas use the path regularily and much easily just presenting their national IDs, an Andean Card and perhaps a...