second article of our series "The Americas views from Colombia. " Our guest: Peru, in solidarity with the tragedy of the earthquake this month. Cuzco, the first capital of South America (Inglés
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Children Cuzco flame and dog. Photo Chö .
The evening of August 15, 2007 will go down in history as one of Peru's most dramatic history. The country was hit by an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 and a duration of 210 seconds (about two minutes) at 18:40:57. The fire killed more than 500 people, more than 1800 wounded and 17 000 homes destroyed with a population of 80 000 victims. He was one of the most violent earthquakes in South America and the tsunami warning shot that ended up in the air the Chilean coast, Ecuador, Colombia and Costa Ricans. When Peru trembles, shakes South America and there are many reasons for this. Who is Peru in the continent? Someone who has a lot to count. By Al Rodas
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Children Cuzco flame and dog. Photo Chö .
The evening of August 15, 2007 will go down in history as one of Peru's most dramatic history. The country was hit by an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 and a duration of 210 seconds (about two minutes) at 18:40:57. The fire killed more than 500 people, more than 1800 wounded and 17 000 homes destroyed with a population of 80 000 victims. He was one of the most violent earthquakes in South America and the tsunami warning shot that ended up in the air the Chilean coast, Ecuador, Colombia and Costa Ricans. When Peru trembles, shakes South America and there are many reasons for this. Who is Peru in the continent? Someone who has a lot to count. By Al Rodas
The importance of Peru in South America is not now. This comes from that in the heart of Andean culture developed an agronomist who reached notable proportions of Empire. In Peru we can say with all due reservations is the "South American Egypt
" whose capital, the first major South American capital, was Cuzco. As if this were not enough, is in Peru where there are traces of the oldest city in the Americas, Caral
as old as one of the oldest cities in Asia, Africa or Europe. Centuries before the birth of the political and economic project of the Mercosur and the Andean Community Peru was the first experience of continental unity in a territory that stretched from southern Colombia to Chile and Argentina.
of the Incas to the English
The Cathedral of Lima, Peru Destination
.
While the Inca empire was subdued by the English conquistadors in the early sixteenth century, Peru has not lost during the colonial privilege of leading political headquarters on the continent. Lima was literally the capital of all South America, in what was called the Viceroyalty of Peru and its domains ranging from Panama to Tierra del Fuego than that belonged to Venezuela the Royal Audience of Santo Domingo. Lima was the Madrid of the continent and it would give special features to how it would be to develop. Although the English Crown established the Viceroyalty of New Granada linking the northern areas of South America and the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata which linked the southern territories, the Viceroyalty of Peru continued to be the hub of the South-dominated English. If you look closely, the independence of Peru was belatedly came in from both ends, first with the Argentine general José de San Martín, who declared the Republic in 1821 and then the general Simón Bolívar Venezuelan who sealed it in 1824 defeating the last remnants Iberians. Born that way the Republic of Peru, a new nation who would have to have an experience as one of the earliest civilizations with a powerful political organization and later as a main structure of the European colonial apparatus. But such a history would also make the country at the center of conflicts with its neighbors brothers. In 1879 Chile declares war on a fact in which he was involved in 1930, Bolivia and Colombia would be the hero when the two countries enter a war for hegemony in the Amazon region and in which Colombia has lost part of its territory forestal que se vería reducido hasta el río Putumayo.
Cuán cerca están Colombia y Perú
Las tres fronteras: Perú, Colombia y Brasil. Foto de
Edhi .
Para un observador externo a ambos países la cercanía física es obvia, debido a que comparten 1.626 kilómetros de frontera, definida en el Tratado Lozano-Salomón de 1922. La frontera se encuentra en la selva del Amazonas y debido al poco desarrollo de la región en ambos países, la carencia de vías apropiadas y la poca población, hace que en ambos países se tenga la sensación de que están muy lejos el uno del otro. Si you are in Colombia and wants to go by land to Peru, Ecuador necessarily have to cross, although the departments of Putumayo and Amazonas bordering the country and unless you want to live a jungle adventure. However, we refer to an alleged trip from Bogota to Lima, because otherwise, the region is visited by tourists, especially through the navigation on their rivers in a river corridor of intense activity. Without doubt, the border is also a center of smuggling and intense space of illicit crops, which they do know and make the most of the common border of the two South American nations. A country long twin
Despite the apparent gap between the two countries, the contemporary history of Colombia and Peru have many similarities. For example, the country went through a dark Inca social crisis in the last decades of the twentieth century, characterized by the prominence of the Shining Path guerrillas and the Tumac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. While national infrastructures weakened guerrillas planted the anxiety and terror as an instrument of armed struggle, the country became one of the worst economic crisis in history during the government of Alan García Pérez. Inflation reached the surprising núemero of 7,649% over 1990. The country's history change radically with the advent to power of Alberto Fujimori, a descendant of Japanese immigrants, who conducted an auto-coup by closing the Congregation and apply the so-called policy of economic shock. The new regime seized the guerrilla leaders and significantly reduced its actions, but Fujimori was notable also famous for corruption, especially of National Intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos. While Fujimori undertook major economic reforms, especially after his reelection in 1995, could not provide a way out of recession. After Fujimori resigned the presidency on a tour from Japan because serious allegations of corruption, was the turn of Alejandro Toledo Manrique, who continued the business model initiated by his predecessor. Currently governing the country which Alan García Pérez continued economic program and has had economic achievements such as lower inflation and better growth, but according to a survey by Ipsos Apoyo
held last June As results, only 32% of Peruvians supported their president, making it the least popular president in Latin America. Although the poverty level dropped three points in the last year in regions such as Lima and coastal areas, the fact is that certain regions of the country remain under the same conditions of poverty. According to The Economist
, poverty increased in Apurimac and Ayacucho. According
Institute of International Finance, Peru is currently the third fastest economy growth in Latin America after Argentina, whose growth is ranked as the best in the region with 7.2%, second to Venezuela 7.0%, Peru in third place with 5.5%, Colombia in fourth place with 5.4%, Chile in fifth with 5.0%, Brazil in sixth place with 3.8% and Mexico in seventh with 3.5%. As shown, Peru and Colombia kept a very close relationship and while the projection for 2008 will be a decrease of the growth in Latin America, this is partly the shock normal economic adjustment is living in the region in general.
Although they seem distant, in fact Colombia and Peru have always gone together in what is economies to the world. The best case is the ongoing negociasiones with the countries of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) which meets in Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. In this process, the two South American countries go together. But that is only a button: Peru is part of the Andean Community
, a key element in a possible integration Latin American economic well-designed, although the CAN (as it is known) has gone through its critical moments. Similarly, Peru handles a FTA with the U.S. and CAN have relations with Mercosur. According
The earthquake in Peru South American fire alerts not only for a possible tsunami had washed the shores of South American countries in the Pacific, but the alarm of solidarity with a nation without which America would not be the same. Colombia, with Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil and Bolivia, was among the first to come to the aid of the earth trembled harsh blinding sister who lives and sowing desolation. That land was the ancestral glory of an empire which no light dies, as the dynasties of Egypt and still have many secrets to reveal to Latin American integration, so essential to the progress of our peoples.
Bibliography *
17 000 homes destroyed and 80 000 survivors of the earthquake in Peru . EFE. elmundo.es vienres, August 17, 2007.
*
That elusive feel-good factor , The Economist. June 26th, 2007. Peru would * third fastest growing. www.peru21.com, March 19, 2007. * TLC
Colombia / Peru - EFTA . Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia. *
In depth: the free trade treaties. Choike.org. *
trade agreements with Colombia, Peru and Ecuador with the United States, effects on trade, production and welfare . CEPAL review. April 2007. *
Bakula: Peru has 100 000 archaeological, February 22, 2007. RPP Noticias. *
Vs Latin America "South America? nonsense. UGARTECHE, Oscar. Latin America on the Move (Peruvian analyst). *
Peru soon. Bulletin Embassy of Peru in Germany (pdf) . Year I, No. 2 *
Peru, Economic Data . The Economist. July 23th, 2007.
Chistian Meier is Peruvian and one of the most popular male actors in American television today. It was especially known in Colombia as the star of the telenovela La Tormenta next to Venezuelan actress Natalia Streignard, in the role of Santos Torrealba, a character in the Colombian Eastern Plains or the Venezuelan Llanos, although the show was completely surrounded in Colombia.
" whose capital, the first major South American capital, was Cuzco. As if this were not enough, is in Peru where there are traces of the oldest city in the Americas, Caral
as old as one of the oldest cities in Asia, Africa or Europe. Centuries before the birth of the political and economic project of the Mercosur and the Andean Community Peru was the first experience of continental unity in a territory that stretched from southern Colombia to Chile and Argentina.
of the Incas to the English
The Cathedral of Lima, Peru Destination
. While the Inca empire was subdued by the English conquistadors in the early sixteenth century, Peru has not lost during the colonial privilege of leading political headquarters on the continent. Lima was literally the capital of all South America, in what was called the Viceroyalty of Peru and its domains ranging from Panama to Tierra del Fuego than that belonged to Venezuela the Royal Audience of Santo Domingo. Lima was the Madrid of the continent and it would give special features to how it would be to develop. Although the English Crown established the Viceroyalty of New Granada linking the northern areas of South America and the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata which linked the southern territories, the Viceroyalty of Peru continued to be the hub of the South-dominated English. If you look closely, the independence of Peru was belatedly came in from both ends, first with the Argentine general José de San Martín, who declared the Republic in 1821 and then the general Simón Bolívar Venezuelan who sealed it in 1824 defeating the last remnants Iberians. Born that way the Republic of Peru, a new nation who would have to have an experience as one of the earliest civilizations with a powerful political organization and later as a main structure of the European colonial apparatus. But such a history would also make the country at the center of conflicts with its neighbors brothers. In 1879 Chile declares war on a fact in which he was involved in 1930, Bolivia and Colombia would be the hero when the two countries enter a war for hegemony in the Amazon region and in which Colombia has lost part of its territory forestal que se vería reducido hasta el río Putumayo.
Cuán cerca están Colombia y Perú
Las tres fronteras: Perú, Colombia y Brasil. Foto de
Edhi . Para un observador externo a ambos países la cercanía física es obvia, debido a que comparten 1.626 kilómetros de frontera, definida en el Tratado Lozano-Salomón de 1922. La frontera se encuentra en la selva del Amazonas y debido al poco desarrollo de la región en ambos países, la carencia de vías apropiadas y la poca población, hace que en ambos países se tenga la sensación de que están muy lejos el uno del otro. Si you are in Colombia and wants to go by land to Peru, Ecuador necessarily have to cross, although the departments of Putumayo and Amazonas bordering the country and unless you want to live a jungle adventure. However, we refer to an alleged trip from Bogota to Lima, because otherwise, the region is visited by tourists, especially through the navigation on their rivers in a river corridor of intense activity. Without doubt, the border is also a center of smuggling and intense space of illicit crops, which they do know and make the most of the common border of the two South American nations. A country long twin
Despite the apparent gap between the two countries, the contemporary history of Colombia and Peru have many similarities. For example, the country went through a dark Inca social crisis in the last decades of the twentieth century, characterized by the prominence of the Shining Path guerrillas and the Tumac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. While national infrastructures weakened guerrillas planted the anxiety and terror as an instrument of armed struggle, the country became one of the worst economic crisis in history during the government of Alan García Pérez. Inflation reached the surprising núemero of 7,649% over 1990. The country's history change radically with the advent to power of Alberto Fujimori, a descendant of Japanese immigrants, who conducted an auto-coup by closing the Congregation and apply the so-called policy of economic shock. The new regime seized the guerrilla leaders and significantly reduced its actions, but Fujimori was notable also famous for corruption, especially of National Intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos. While Fujimori undertook major economic reforms, especially after his reelection in 1995, could not provide a way out of recession. After Fujimori resigned the presidency on a tour from Japan because serious allegations of corruption, was the turn of Alejandro Toledo Manrique, who continued the business model initiated by his predecessor. Currently governing the country which Alan García Pérez continued economic program and has had economic achievements such as lower inflation and better growth, but according to a survey by Ipsos Apoyo
held last June As results, only 32% of Peruvians supported their president, making it the least popular president in Latin America. Although the poverty level dropped three points in the last year in regions such as Lima and coastal areas, the fact is that certain regions of the country remain under the same conditions of poverty. According to The Economist
, poverty increased in Apurimac and Ayacucho. According
Institute of International Finance, Peru is currently the third fastest economy growth in Latin America after Argentina, whose growth is ranked as the best in the region with 7.2%, second to Venezuela 7.0%, Peru in third place with 5.5%, Colombia in fourth place with 5.4%, Chile in fifth with 5.0%, Brazil in sixth place with 3.8% and Mexico in seventh with 3.5%. As shown, Peru and Colombia kept a very close relationship and while the projection for 2008 will be a decrease of the growth in Latin America, this is partly the shock normal economic adjustment is living in the region in general.
Although they seem distant, in fact Colombia and Peru have always gone together in what is economies to the world. The best case is the ongoing negociasiones with the countries of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) which meets in Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. In this process, the two South American countries go together. But that is only a button: Peru is part of the Andean Community
, a key element in a possible integration Latin American economic well-designed, although the CAN (as it is known) has gone through its critical moments. Similarly, Peru handles a FTA with the U.S. and CAN have relations with Mercosur. According
The earthquake in Peru South American fire alerts not only for a possible tsunami had washed the shores of South American countries in the Pacific, but the alarm of solidarity with a nation without which America would not be the same. Colombia, with Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil and Bolivia, was among the first to come to the aid of the earth trembled harsh blinding sister who lives and sowing desolation. That land was the ancestral glory of an empire which no light dies, as the dynasties of Egypt and still have many secrets to reveal to Latin American integration, so essential to the progress of our peoples.
Bibliography *
17 000 homes destroyed and 80 000 survivors of the earthquake in Peru . EFE. elmundo.es vienres, August 17, 2007.
*
That elusive feel-good factor , The Economist. June 26th, 2007. Peru would * third fastest growing. www.peru21.com, March 19, 2007. * TLC
Colombia / Peru - EFTA . Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia. *
In depth: the free trade treaties. Choike.org. *
trade agreements with Colombia, Peru and Ecuador with the United States, effects on trade, production and welfare . CEPAL review. April 2007. *
Bakula: Peru has 100 000 archaeological, February 22, 2007. RPP Noticias. *
Vs Latin America "South America? nonsense. UGARTECHE, Oscar. Latin America on the Move (Peruvian analyst). *
Peru soon. Bulletin Embassy of Peru in Germany (pdf) . Year I, No. 2 *
Peru, Economic Data . The Economist. July 23th, 2007.
Chistian Meier is Peruvian and one of the most popular male actors in American television today. It was especially known in Colombia as the star of the telenovela La Tormenta next to Venezuelan actress Natalia Streignard, in the role of Santos Torrealba, a character in the Colombian Eastern Plains or the Venezuelan Llanos, although the show was completely surrounded in Colombia.
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