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Peru’s president orders environmental clean-up in Amazon oil region

Environment

Peru’s economy has long run on the extraction of minerals from beneath the earth’s surface. And that has come at a cost to the environment and the health of people. But environmental activists are heartened to see the government make tentative steps to rein in environmental excesses.

Peruvians Protest Against Poverty and Corruption

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Peru’s political divide

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