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/ 4 November 2006
In only 100 days, President Alan Garcia has made Peruvians forget the food shortages, four-digit inflation and guerrilla violence that marred his first government in the 1980s. The once-reviled leader has an approval rating near 60% from preaching responsible, thrifty government and increased spending on social programmes.
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/ 19 October 2004
After 34 years of patient tinkering, researchers at Peru’s most prestigious agrarian university have bred a new culinary export they hope will scamper on to dinner plates throughout the United States and the world: the super-size guinea pig. Peruvians consume an estimated 65-million guinea pigs each year.