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Peru

28
77-84
74-75
19-20
22-24
45-53
389-452
232-240
287-297
452-463
709-719
695-705
489-502
173-187
3-14
632-640
612-617
780-786
113-126
253-277
357-368
344-358
603-623
307-332
16-33
7-38
598-609
Jul 2006Percentage of Peruvians who say their nation needs leaders who “impose order” and “authority”: 74
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U.N. Development Programme (Lima)

Nov 2005Rank of the fugitive ex-president Alberto Fujimori among top-polling prospects for Peru’s election next year: 1
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Grupo APOYO (Lima)

Jan 2004Percentage approval rating of Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo last July : 11
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Professor Jo-Marie Burt, George Mason University (Fairfax, Va.)

Jan 2001Years that the United States spent fighting Lori Berenson's life sentence in Peru before she won a retrial last fall: 5
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U.S. Department of State

Jun 2000Weeks before Peru's national election last April that President Alberto Fujimori raised the minimum wage by 18 percent: 4
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Embassy of Peru (Washington)

Apr 2000Minimum number of laws passed in Peru since 1992 that violate at least one article of the country's constitution: 91
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Washington Office on Latin America (Washington)

August 17, 2007An earthquake along the southern coast of Peru killed 510 people.
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NYT

July 15, 2007Striking teachers in Trujillo, Peru, threw eggs and tomatoes at President Alan Garcia.
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BBC

June 25, 2007The actress Cameron Diaz apologized for carrying a bag printed with a Maoist political slogan when she visited Peru, where up to 69,000 people died in a decade-long war between the government and Maoist rebels.The actress Cameron Diaz apologized for carrying a bag printed with a Maoist political slogan when she visited Peru, where up to 69,000 people died in a decade-long war between the government and Maoist rebels.
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BBC

May 11, 2007 Peruvian scientists were concerned that an itinerant penguin from Chile “could suffer discrimination” among Peru's penguins.
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BBC

September 26, 2006Milagros, a Peruvian “mermaid” girl whose fused legs were separated by surgeons, took her first steps.
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AP via SBS

September 26, 2005An earthquake struck Peru.
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BBC News

June 5, 2005Surgeons in Peru separated the legs of Milagros Cerron, the thirteen-month-old "mermaid baby" whose legs were fused from thigh to ankle. Some of the surgery was broadcast live.
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News-Medical.net

April 29, 2005In Peru, authorities saved four thousand frogs from being put into blenders and made into cocktails.
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CNN

March 27, 2004 Vampire bats attacked 20 people in Mansiche, Peru.
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Herald Sun

February 5, 2004Police in Peru said that a decapitated baby boy found near Lake Titicaca, on a hill surrounded with flowers, liquor, and blood, might have been sacrificed to a pre-Colombian earth god.
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Guardian

September 27, 2000Officials in Peru said that collective psychosis, rather than a meteorite, was to blame for an epidemic of sickness in a Peruvian town.
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Space.com via Yahoo! News

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