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Robbers Hold up NatGeo Team at Nasca Hotel (and the place where you don’t want to book a room is…

August 8th, 2009 · 12 Comments · Ancient Civilizations, Money, Economics, Politics

Enigmatic geoglyphs in the Nasca desert draw tens of thousands of tourists to southern Peru each year (photo c. RPP)

Great timing, criminals in southern Peru.
First a Peruvian trucking company diverts 100 tons of UN rice for cold-spell victims to the black market in July. SUNAT seizes three truckloads (32 tons) of hijacked rice in Ica; [...]

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