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Professor Van Vleet Publishes Ethnography of Young Peruvian Mothers

Between 2009 and 2014, cultural anthropologist Krista Van Vleet spent sixteen months observing a unique Peruvian orphanage called Palomitáy. Palomitáy, in the highland city of Cusco, does not function ...
World Socialist Web Site

Peruvian government repeals law targeting young workers

Almost two weeks after thousands of young workers and students marched to protest Peru’s new “Youth Labor Law,” President Ollanta Humala summoned an extraordinary session of the country’s Congress in ...
UNHCR

Peruvian and Venezuelan girls come together to campaign for social change

Pau* was 11 years old when she and her mother left their native Venezuela to make the exhausting overland journey to Peru. For Pau, the transition was a difficult one. At her new school in the ...
AOL

As a young priest in Peru, Pope Leo XIV survived a bomb threat and charmed locals

CHULUCANAS, Peru (Reuters) - Hector Camacho remembers Robert Prevost, set to be formally inaugurated as Pope Leo XIV on Sunday, as a young jeans-wearing missionary from Chicago with broken Spanish, ...
Yahoo

Peru's dark past surfaces as young protester is laid to rest

QUINUA, Peru (AP) — This rural hamlet nestled high in the Peruvian Andes was the site of a major battle that secured South America’s independence from Spain in the 19th century. But on Saturday, the ...
The Hill

Peru’s dark past surfaces as young protester is laid to rest

QUINUA, Peru (AP) — This rural hamlet nestled high in the Peruvian Andes was the site of a major battle that secured South America’s independence from Spain in the 19th century. But on Saturday, the ...