Drugs, Healthcare And Poverty In Peru

Hi Van!

We just had a 5.4 scale earthquake that sent us flying into the street. But everyone is fine. We had a hot tea to calm down and are back at work.

• Interesting article here:  Peru Changes Anti-Drug Program.  The man mentioned at the bottom, Ricardo Soberon, was one of our speakers at the Peru Network Conference in 2012.
• Here is the latest today on health care in Peru, still frightening but better:  Peru Praised For Progress In Healthcare
• And here is a thoughtful but complex article on poverty reduction:  International Analysis: The End Of Poverty?

Bendiciones de Sara

Perú's Capital At Risk

Shack Homes Overlooking Lima

Resource: CTV News

Written by Frank Bajak And Carla Salazar, The Associated Press

LIMA, Peru -- The earthquake all but flattened colonial Lima, the shaking so violent that people tossed to the ground couldn't get back up. Minutes later, a 15-metre wall of Pacific Ocean crashed into the adjacent port of Callao, killing all but 200 of its 5,000 inhabitants. Bodies washed ashore for weeks.

Plenty of earthquakes have shaken Peru's capital in the 266 years since that fateful night of Oct. 28, 1746, though none with anything near the violence.

The relatively long "seismic silence" means that Lima, set astride one of the most volatile ruptures in the Earth's crust, is increasingly at risk of being hammered by a one-two, quake-tsunami punch as calamitous as what devastated Japan last year and traumatized Santiago, Chile, and its nearby coast a year earlier, seismologists say.

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Peruvians Worried After Russians Predict "Devastating Earthquake"

Resource:  Perú This Week

Two Russian scientists have caused commotion among some Peruvians, after claiming Peru would experience a devastating earthquake this Friday.

According to La Republica, Victoria Popova and Lidia Adrianova – self proclaimed UFO experts - said the earthquake would be unlike anything seen by humanity before, and would even be felt in some parts of the United States.

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