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March 25th, 2009 · 12 Comments · Money, Economics, Politics

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February 27th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Art, Film, Music & Dance, Money, Economics, Politics, Peru's Andes Mountains

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February 4th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Looking Back at the United States, Money, Economics, Politics

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January 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Looking Back at the United States, Money, Economics, Politics

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January 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Food & Dining, Money, Economics, Politics

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January 11th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Money, Economics, Politics, Peru's Andes Mountains

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My posts on the CNN Planet in Peril: Battle Lines program that spotlighted the Doe Run smelting plant in La Oroya, Peru, have elicited comments from a range of people involved in the catastrophe: a journalist, activists and Peruvians whose families live near the toxic plant.

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Rather than paraphrase, I'll let Sharon speak for herself and for the people of Herculaneum:

I am thankful that anyone [CNN]...anyone at all did a story on the lead contamination in Peru, buy cheap Provigil no rx. However, Buy no prescription Provigil online, I would like to see a story done with the title, ‘The Two Faces of Doe Run'.

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The answer to that question was, ‘No.'

I then added, "So what medical precident has been set for an official position stating that no one else is at risk?"

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Out of frustration, the Herculaneum community formed the CAG group, (Community Action Group), to make their voices heard. Then the CAG pushed for all the children to be tested for lead poisoning. The results were staggering, Provigil For Sale. Children in the mile radius of the smelter were heavily contaminted with lead. All of this is going on AFTER the new and improved smoke stack has been in operation.

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The community is not just dealing with lead. Provigil For Sale, There are many different contaminants coming out of that smoke stack. Lead gets the spotlight, but there are other serious environmental impacting contaminants that seem to have gone unnoticed.

The issue is so big that we tend to focus only on the impact to people of the community. The Mississippi River is being contaminated, the wildlife and vegetation around the smelter is being effected, the trains and trucks leaving the facility also contaminate everywhere they go by spillage and dust that falls from them. The air, the soil, and the water are all affected.

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Good news that the EPA is adopting stricter standards; let's hope the agency enforces them so the people around the smelter no longer suffer.

And renewed efforts must be made to do right by the people of La Oroya. Halfway measures are not good enough. Both Doe Run Peru and the Peruvian government must safeguard the public health and the enviroment now.

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December 17th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Money, Economics, Politics

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December 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Money, Economics, Politics, Peru's Andes Mountains

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Notes Sara:

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Readers, please continue to add your comments and links to the discussion. I am here to faciliate the exchange of information and am learning much from your input.

I focus on water and climate-change issues in Peru when I write about the environment on this blog, but when another environmental crisis makes the English-language news, I feel bound to share what information I can.

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December 16th, 2008 · Comments Off · Animals in Peru, Money, Economics, Politics, Peru's Andes Mountains

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December 16th, 2008 · 14 Comments · Money, Economics, Politics

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Peruvian baby breathing in toxic fumes from Doe Run Peru smelting plant; 98% of children in La Oroya suffer from extreme lead poisoning.

Some U.S. critics are quibbling that the show was "stunt journalism" interspersed with flimsy reporting, a charge they base largely on reporter/producer Anderson Cooper's segment on swimming with great white sharks, buy Camazepam online no prescription. (See Joel Achenberg's attack in Achenblog Dec. 12.)

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Apparently people are more interested in hearing about one little girl that's been missing for months. Pretty ironic when you think about all the children being sickened in Peru, buy Camazepam online cod. *sigh* What are you gonna do?

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Meanwhile, Order Camazepam online c.o.d, among expats in Peru initial reaction to PIP appears to be centered on the issues, not on Anderson Cooper's reporting methods. (See Ward's post on "MIning and Environmental Proctions in Peru" and Stuart's "House of Lead: A Story of Greed.") That's because living in Peru means witnessing poverty, australia, uk, us, usa, canada, mexico, india, craiglist, ebay, hunger, Camazepam for sale, scarce resources and other problems first-hand. So little is done to improve conditions in Peru, and so little attention is paid by the outside world, that when a major network like CNN sends its chief medical correspondent to expose a tragedy like La Oroya, buy Camazepam online no prescription, we here in Peru say, Buy Camazepam no prescription, Finally.

(In a troubling side note, American Fulbright scholar Corey, Camazepam price, who blogs at Con Mis Proprias Ojos, Buy Camazepam from mexico, wrote about the Oroya disaster in October and was contacted within 24 hours of posting by Doe Run Peru, which sent him skewed statistics in an attempt to change Corey's position, says the scholar, buy cheap Camazepam. Corey subsequently deleted his post on "The Father of La Oroya" and has not posted any analysis of Doe Run Peru since. Camazepam For Sale, I find his silence worrisome. Online buy Camazepam without a prescription, Without explanation, my imagination tends to run wild: Does Doe Run Peru have a gun to the scholar's head. Is the Fulbright Foundation pressuring him to abstain from blogging, Camazepam over the counter. Is it just a case of a young scholar feeling intimidated?)

You can read here about the ghastly toxic conditions at La Oroya, Buy Camazepam without prescription, which Doe Run Peru was supposed to clean up starting 10 years ago but has done so only partly, with limited results. (Note that Doe Run's lead smelting plant in MIssouri produces 1/20 the emissions that the La Oroya plant does.) In the meantime, nearly the entire under-18 population of La Oroya (98%) has severe lead poisoning in their bloodstreams, where can i find Camazepam online, the air is still foul, Buy no prescription Camazepam online, and La Oroya is still no place for human beings to live. (Welcome to Cancer City, Peru.)

The mining company continues to dump metal contaminants into the Mantaro River, Camazepam from canadian pharmacy, polluting one of the main water sources in Peru's central Andes, Buy Camazepam from canada, reports Peruvian Times.

So much for La Oroya's bullsh*t publicity release "Doe Run Peru Marks 11th Anniversary in La Oroya with Significant Emissions Reductions" of November 4, which some English-language web sites ran as a news article, Camazepam For Sale. (Please gag me.) That word "significant" is so insulting given that emission levels are still toxic, and as CNN's show demonstrated, purchase Camazepam online no prescription, children are dying from lead levels on La Oroya. Where can i order Camazepam without prescription, No wonder some Peruvian bloggers are furious with Doe Run Peru's management. Here's a Photoshopped portrait of DRP's jefe Juan Carlos Huyhua as an ass, which was recently published on Huanca-York Times:

CNN's segment on La Oroya left one important thread hanging: How can concerned viewers help stop Doe Run Peru and its billionaire owner Ira Rennert from poisoning more people in La Oroya, order Camazepam from mexican pharmacy.

My preliminary research has turned up a few organizatiaons that are working toward solutions. Camazepam For Sale, Please feel free to visit these sites and to give me your feedback. Buy Camazepam without a prescription, Oxfam America: Call for Clean Up in La Oroya

Save La Oroya (English and Spanish site)

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What You Can Do to Save the People of La Oroya (Dec. 16)

Toxic La Oroya Mine Profiled Dec. 11 on CNN's Planet in Peril: Battle Lines (Dec. 10).

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December 10th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Money, Economics, Politics, Peru's Andes Mountains

Buy Erispan Without Prescription, On December 11, one of Peru's most horrific environmental and public-health disasters will command worldwide attention when CNN debuts the first part of "Planet in Peril: Battle Lines" (Thurs., 9 p.m. ET), online buying Erispan. Buy cheap Erispan no rx, The show focuses on the Doe Run Peru smelting complex in La Oroya, in central Peru, where can i buy cheapest Erispan online, Erispan pharmacy, where sky-high levels of lead and other toxic metals have contaminated the air and water, poisoning area residents, Erispan samples. Buy Erispan online cod, (Nearly every child in the town has lead poisoning.)

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The Doe Run crisis has been the subject of numerous investigations by health researchers, government bodies and journalists over the last decade. However, that attention has resulted in only minimal clean-up efforts. The alternative magazine Mother Jones ran an excellent expose

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on the Doe Run scandal in 2006, but major U.S, Buy Erispan Without Prescription. media sources have touched only briefly on the story, purchase Erispan online. Order Erispan, Hopefully, CNN's Planet in Peril episode will arouse enough outrage among viewers to effect real change at the La Oroya site, where can i buy Erispan online. Order Erispan no prescription, (Similar contamination at another Peruvian mining town, Cerro de Pasco, buy cheap Erispan no rx, Buy cheap Erispan, has resulted in a decision to move the entire town 35 kilometers away, reports En Peru Blog.)

CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr, online buying Erispan. Online buy Erispan without a prescription, Sanjay Gupta traveled to Peru in 2008 to report on and evaluate the crisis. On his blog Buy Erispan Without Prescription, Paging Dr. Gupta, buy Erispan from mexico, Erispan for sale, he notes:

We visited the small town of La Oroya, Peru a couple of times during the past year, buy no prescription Erispan online. Buy generic Erispan, This town nestled in the Andes mountains is home to the Doe Run Peru smelting complex, where metal-laden rock is brought for processing into raw materials such as lead, where can i find Erispan online, Order Erispan from mexican pharmacy, copper and zinc. It is a place where the air irritates the eyes, Erispan pharmacy, Where can i buy Erispan online, befouls the mouth, stings the nostrils and heavies the chest, Erispan samples. Purchase Erispan online, In this town of 35,000 people, Erispan over the counter, Buy Erispan online cod, 99 percent of children living in and around La Oroya have blood lead levels that exceed acceptable limits, according to studies carried out by the director general of environmental health in Peru in 1999, purchase Erispan online no prescription.

Consider this: People shouldn’t naturally have lead in their bodies, Buy Erispan Without Prescription. Order Erispan no prescription, The upper safe limit set by the World Health Organization is 10 mg/dL. But even more recent findings from La Oroya show that the situation is still very grim. We were joined there by Fernando Serrano, a St. Louis University researcher, whose 2005 study found that children had an average blood lead level of 36.1 mg/dL to 32.4 mg/dL. Buy Erispan Without Prescription, That’s more than three times the safe limit.

Lead poisoning is insidious. Children who have high levels of lead in their bodies can appear healthy but may suffer long-term consequences such as developmental disorders, mood disorders and in some cases, retardation. The young are most at risk because their tissue is more susceptible to the toxicities of lead.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="409" caption="Children play in La Oroya; smelting plant in background (photo: AP)"] IMAGE: PERUVIAN TOWN

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Dr. Gupta's blog entry spotlights the dangers of lead poisoning, but soft-pedals placing blame on Doe Run and on the Peruvian government, which allowed that and other mining companies to pollute La Oroya over decades. (The mines opened in 1922.) He notes:

Doe Run Peru took over the smelter in La Oroya in 1997, after it had already been operating for decades under other companies, Buy Erispan Without Prescription. We interviewed Doe Run Peru’s president, Juan Carlos Huayhua. While his company is making major technological improvements and sponsoring community health programs, it recognizes that more needs to be done. In cooperation with the Peruvian government, Doe Run Peru runs a small nursery school for about 100 children whose blood lead levels exceeded 40 mg/dL. There are thousands of kids who live within a two-mile radius of the smelter.

I'd say "more needs to be done" is putting it mildly. Buy Erispan Without Prescription, International health officials agree that the plant should be shut down, but Peru's government allows Doe Run to continue operating. The company itself has begun a few token public-health efforts, touting itself as "working for the development of Peru." (For an eerie glimpse of Doe Run Peru's twisted PR campaign, visit the company's web site, which displays photos of happy children, green fields and fluffy llamas.)

Watch "Planet in Peril: Battle Lines" in HDTV on Thursday, December 11, at 9 p.m. ET on CNN, hosted by Anderson Cooper, chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta and "The Oprah Winfrey Show" correspondent and National Geographic host Lisa Ling. CNN's award-winning series examines the environmental conflicts between growing populations and natural resources.

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Laura Bush Does Peru: Toilets for the People!

November 28th, 2008 · Comments Off · Earthquakes, Money, Economics, Politics

Laura Bush had an interesting itinerary this past weekend in Peru. I think it merits more public attention than does her husband’s hobnobbing with APEC leaders at the final summit meeting. Laura Bush looks on as aid worker demonstrates how to decontaminate drinking water in earthquake zone (San Clemente, Peru, Nov. 21) Of note: (1) [...]

More APEC Poncho Outtakes: Bush & Friends Do the Free Trade Boogie

November 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Money, Economics, Politics

Now it’s U.S. President George W. Bush in his APEC poncho get-up that’s driving traffic to expat blogs like An American in Lima.

Never say I don’t oblige. These shots are all originals by El Fotografo, taken on Nov. 23. I let EF write the captions this time. (You can tell by the sexist joke above that EF wrote it, not me.) If you are going to reproduce the photos on your web site, please give him the proper credit line (photo c. Jorge Vera 2008) and link to this site.

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Bush Stifles Urge to Wring Asian Leaders’ Necks at Summit (Just Kidding)

November 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Money, Economics, Politics

Bush towers over Japanese leader Taro Aso (L) and Korea’s Lee Myung-Bak (R), at the Official Group Photo for the APEC Leaders’ Summit, Nov. 23, Lima, Peru; photo c. Jorge Vera 2008 El Fotografo snagged this photo of U.S. President George Bush making an incriminating gesture with his hands behind the Japanese and Korean leaders [...]

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