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In a bulletin issued August 4, Cialis over the counter, 2009, the Peruvian Red Cross (PRC) issued a general statement about the cold deaths in Puno, Online buying Cialis, noting the low temperatures, the rise in pneumonia cases and the deaths of "113" children (a number much lower than that cited by other news sources in early August). After low-balling the number of deaths, the bulletin explained that the PRC "has been assisting the affected people with medicines, where can i find Cialis online, blankets and food items. Additionally, Where can i order Cialis without prescription, the PRC has launched a nationwide campaign to collect donations for the emergency response."

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Stranger yet, the bulletin goes on to state, in bold-face type:

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Please reread that paragraph. It says that the PRC does not want the International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies (IRCRC) to send emergency relief aid to Peru to save people from dying from the cold. "DREF" stands for "Disaster Relief Emergency Funds."

Let me explain how the IRCRC works. Buy Cialis from mexico, The IRCRC is an international organization that has sister organizations or "societies" in countries throughout the world. When a natural disaster or humanitarian emergency hits a country, that nation can call on the IRCRC to provide food, clothing, purchase Cialis online, medicine, medical equipment, Order Cialis, emergency housing and field hospitals, plus qualified disaster workers (doctors, nurses, social workers, where can i buy Cialis online, volunteers), to the affected zone. Cialis samples, According to the IRCRC's website, DREF funds are typically released within 24 hours (yes, that quickly).

There's only one catch and it isn't a catch really: The only way the IRCRC can give emergency aid to a country is if that country requests it, Cialis For Sale. No matter how huge or catastrophic an emergency, purchase Cialis online no prescription, the IRCRC cannot step in unless the country's own Red Cross or Red Crescent society asks the IRCRC to do so. Even if people are dying, like they are in Puno and Juliaca. Buy Cialis without a prescription, This is what has happened this year with the cold deaths in the Andes. The Peruvian Red Cross has issued a bulletin saying, Don't send medical workers, don't set up field hospitals, buy Cialis online cod. People die every year from the cold in the puna, so it's not emergency. Cialis For Sale, Let us, the PRC, handle it our own way. Cialis from canadian pharmacy, We have our own little disaster-preparedness program, which kicks in months after the cold spell starts, and we think that's good enough for the people who live way up there.

In other words, Cialis price, let the people of the Andes die.

I would love to report that the Peru Red Cross has done a fantastic job of bringing medical aid to the people of the puna, Rx free Cialis, all on its own, but I can't. The PRC did nothing in May, June and July, where can i buy cheapest Cialis online, when an early cold wave began weakening tens of thousands of people in the highlands and triggered hundreds of deaths.

Strangely, after issuing its August 4 "Don't Help Us" bulletin, the Peru Red Cross got busy banging its own drum, Cialis For Sale. A news item appeared in the August 10 issue of Peruvian Times trumpeting the PRC's relief efforts, Buy Cialis from mexico, claiming that "as part of its “Together against the Cold” Campaign, the Peruvian Red Cross [had] shipped more than 50 tons of warm clothing, blankets and medicine to 11,290 families throughout Peru’s southern Altiplano, Cialis over the counter, including Cuzco, Puno, Buy generic Cialis, Apurimac and Huancavelica."

However, a quick check with the official web site of the American Red Cross reveals that (U.S.) American Red Cross workers were instrumental in getting the aid to the affected regions. The news item does not specify whose funding, that of the PRC or ARC or both, underwrote the relief effort, rx free Cialis, which was less than that given by Civil Defense and Caritas.

Note that no teams of doctors or nurses were brought to the highlands. Where can i buy Cialis online, No field hospitals were set up. By this point, early August, more than 77, buy Cialis no prescription,000 people in Puno alone had been treated for pneumonia in grossly understaffed hospitals. Cialis For Sale, The time had passed for blankets and sweaters. People needed nebulizers and the constant medical care that pneumonia and pneumonia-like diseases require. Where can i buy cheapest Cialis online, So, why didn't the PRC jump on the problem months ago. Ongoing politics, it seems, buy Cialis from canada.

A spokesperson for the PRC blamed the Peruvian government for the deaths, which the PRC refuses to classify as an "emergency" because they happen each year and are therefore preventable:

“Government authorities deal with low temperatures as a risk or a possibility, Buy no prescription Cialis online, and not as part of a sustained policy of the State to adopt permanent prevention throughout the year to avoid more deaths,” Susana Silva, [PRC] Deputy Health Ombudswoman, said in an official statement.

Gee, Cialis samples. I'm glad the PRC has its priorities straight, Cialis For Sale. It's job is finding the right entity to blame, not saving lives. Cialis price, It's a deadly game that benefits no one in Peru, least of all the hundreds of campesinos dying in the highlands. All over the world, countries suffering from drought, earthquakes, deadly epidemics, floods -- these countries receive billions of dollars' worth of prompt emergency aid and disaster-preparedness aid because their Red Cross or Red Crescent society knew that its job is to supplement its own funds by asking for IRCRC help ASAP.

What the hell is wrong with the Peru Red Cross. Cialis For Sale, And why do Peruvians permit the small-minded people who run this Lima-based "aid society" to continue to do an abysmal job and to deny Peruvians the international aid that the vulnerable nation deserves.

It's criminal.

--Barbara R. Drake

p.s. Check out the Cruz Roja Peru's lame web site. Half of the "buttons" on the front page are dead; they don't link to a live page. The society boasts of 130 years of aid in Peru (huh?). Nowhere will you find a section on transparency, as you should on a reputable nonprofit org's page. No record of incoming donations or dispensing of aid (in contrast, Caritas and Civil Defense provided daily and weekly accounting of relief efforts to communities in the highland for June, July and August).

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Writing in his Spanish-language blog Globalizado, Buy Modalert no prescription, Arellano (who also writes for Global Voices Online) notes that the official death toll of people in the area, most of them children under 5, is now up to 433, purchase Modalert online, according to RPP. Where can i find Modalert online, Public outrage at these largely preventable deaths has been ignited by an ATV news segment, posted on YouTube June 2, that shows an Andean couple in Juliaca watching helplessly as their small child dies of cold-induced respiratory illness in a local hospital:

A Child Dies in Puno Hospital, buy Modalert online no prescription, YouTube video (Warning: This heartbreaking video graphically shows the child suffering from lack of medical care in the hospital, Modalert price, as well as the father's anguished response at identifying his baby's dead body. In the hospital, the child is obviously dying of pneumonia, where can i order Modalert without prescription, and the nurses don't even put an oxygen mask on him.)

Some viewers left comments on YouTube accusing the journalists who filmed the segment of exploiting the child's death to promote ratings, Modalert from canadian pharmacy, but another viewer, speaking on behalf of journalists, defended the video:

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I was very interested in this exchange because I've found that blogging about humanitarian issues in Peru often puts me in a similar situation. Readers frequently expect me to respond as an activist and do something about a problem, buy Modalert without a prescription, or look to me for authoritative advice on how to help. I'm often overwhelmed by these requests, since the problems (hunger, lead poisoning, loss of glaciers, genocide) are immense and Peru's institutions are typically unable to coordinate even a rudimentary relief effort to stem this or that crisis, Modalert For Sale. Modalert samples, Whatever help I've been able to offer victims has been immediate and local -- handing out food to families, paying for a friend in the Andes to visit a doctor, etc, order Modalert no prescription. Significantly, Where can i buy Modalert online, readers never expect me to intervene in problems that I report on for U.S. newspapers.

While Peru's mainstream media provides some coverage on what is happening in the Andes, purchase Modalert online no prescription, it's fallen to writers in the blogosphere to analyze what caused the crisis and why it's accelerating. Modalert For Sale, Some of the key points that Peruvian bloggers are bringing up, notes Arellano:

The health crisis in the Andes is compounded by deliberate mismanagement of aid to the affected regions. Buy cheap Modalert no rx, (See Bobstarz's post in Caviar de Cianuro -- Cyanide Caviar -- on the black-market sale of UN rice intended for the people of Puno);

Donations of clothing, food and medicine are only a "patch," observes Francisco Canaza of Apuntes Peruanos."The real problem is the neglect of the state to those remote areas." (I agree wholeheartedly.) Canaza also notes that living in the highlands requires the body to burn higher amounts of calories and that lack of adequate nutrition is at the root of many Andean people's vulnerability to cold snaps, rx free Modalert. (Likewise, Buy Modalert online cod, I concur.);

Some effects of globalization are making people in the puna more vulnerable to hunger and climate shifts, notes columnist Rafo Leon. Traditional wool clothing is being replaced by cheap synthetics, online buying Modalert, and new houses are being built of modern materials that are not as warm as traditional adobe. Buy cheap Modalert, (I'm not sure I agree that these substitutions are at the root of the problem, but they may intensify its effects.)

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These are the things I think of when I read the news reports on deaths in the highlands -- the humble, hard-working people who live at such a remove from the "civilized" world and who can be helped at not that much cost, if only there are some of us willing to climb the mountain paths and meet them halfway.

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Stranger yet, the bulletin goes on to state, in bold-face type:

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A spokesperson for the PRC blamed the Peruvian government for the deaths, which the PRC refuses to classify as an "emergency" because they happen each year and are therefore preventable:

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The health crisis in the Andes is compounded by deliberate mismanagement of aid to the affected regions. Buy cheap Modalert no rx, (See Bobstarz's post in Caviar de Cianuro -- Cyanide Caviar -- on the black-market sale of UN rice intended for the people of Puno);

Donations of clothing, food and medicine are only a "patch," observes Francisco Canaza of Apuntes Peruanos."The real problem is the neglect of the state to those remote areas." (I agree wholeheartedly.) Canaza also notes that living in the highlands requires the body to burn higher amounts of calories and that lack of adequate nutrition is at the root of many Andean people's vulnerability to cold snaps, rx free Modalert. (Likewise, Buy Modalert online cod, I concur.);

Some effects of globalization are making people in the puna more vulnerable to hunger and climate shifts, notes columnist Rafo Leon. Traditional wool clothing is being replaced by cheap synthetics, online buying Modalert, and new houses are being built of modern materials that are not as warm as traditional adobe. Buy cheap Modalert, (I'm not sure I agree that these substitutions are at the root of the problem, but they may intensify its effects.)

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Barbara — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:24:51 +0000

Not Peru's Red Cross, however.

Stranger yet, the bulletin goes on to state, in bold-face type:

The Peruvian Red Cross has determined that external assistance is not required, Cialis for sale, and is therefore not seeking funding or other assistance from donors at this moment. Cialis For Sale, Since this is a recurrent emergency and the National Society was prepared and included in its preventive measures the successful implementation of an awareness campaign, no DREF funds will be requested.

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A spokesperson for the PRC blamed the Peruvian government for the deaths, which the PRC refuses to classify as an "emergency" because they happen each year and are therefore preventable:

“Government authorities deal with low temperatures as a risk or a possibility, Buy no prescription Cialis online, and not as part of a sustained policy of the State to adopt permanent prevention throughout the year to avoid more deaths,” Susana Silva, [PRC] Deputy Health Ombudswoman, said in an official statement.

It's criminal.

--Barbara R. Drake

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Barbara — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:24:51 +0000

Not Peru's Red Cross, however.

Stranger yet, the bulletin goes on to state, in bold-face type:

The Peruvian Red Cross has determined that external assistance is not required, Cialis for sale, and is therefore not seeking funding or other assistance from donors at this moment. Cialis For Sale, Since this is a recurrent emergency and the National Society was prepared and included in its preventive measures the successful implementation of an awareness campaign, no DREF funds will be requested.

In other words, Cialis price, let the people of the Andes die.

A spokesperson for the PRC blamed the Peruvian government for the deaths, which the PRC refuses to classify as an "emergency" because they happen each year and are therefore preventable:

“Government authorities deal with low temperatures as a risk or a possibility, Buy no prescription Cialis online, and not as part of a sustained policy of the State to adopt permanent prevention throughout the year to avoid more deaths,” Susana Silva, [PRC] Deputy Health Ombudswoman, said in an official statement.

It's criminal.

--Barbara R. Drake

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Donations of clothing, food and medicine are only a "patch," observes Francisco Canaza of Apuntes Peruanos."The real problem is the neglect of the state to those remote areas." (I agree wholeheartedly.) Canaza also notes that living in the highlands requires the body to burn higher amounts of calories and that lack of adequate nutrition is at the root of many Andean people's vulnerability to cold snaps, rx free Modalert. (Likewise, Buy Modalert online cod, I concur.);

Some effects of globalization are making people in the puna more vulnerable to hunger and climate shifts, notes columnist Rafo Leon. Traditional wool clothing is being replaced by cheap synthetics, online buying Modalert, and new houses are being built of modern materials that are not as warm as traditional adobe. Buy cheap Modalert, (I'm not sure I agree that these substitutions are at the root of the problem, but they may intensify its effects.)

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Donations of clothing, food and medicine are only a "patch," observes Francisco Canaza of Apuntes Peruanos."The real problem is the neglect of the state to those remote areas." (I agree wholeheartedly.) Canaza also notes that living in the highlands requires the body to burn higher amounts of calories and that lack of adequate nutrition is at the root of many Andean people's vulnerability to cold snaps, rx free Modalert. (Likewise, Buy Modalert online cod, I concur.);

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Barbara — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:24:51 +0000

Not Peru's Red Cross, however.

Stranger yet, the bulletin goes on to state, in bold-face type:

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Every celeb these days wants to walk the Inca catwalk....

Yesterday, Spanish- and English-language media outlets gushed over the announcement that a high-profile photo shoot is scheduled to take place November 4 at Machu Picchu. A dozen Maxim bikini models will parade around the former Inca citadel in high heels and thongs. Leading the stampede may be Paris Hilton, although she hasn't signed any contracts yet to appear in Machu Picchu Bikini Peru 2008. There will be fuzzy llamas and locals in ponchos and a Peruvian fashion photographer behind the viewfinder, to ensure that the entire process is autentico. I am having a hard time getting excited about this. Yes, Paris Hilton is a photogenic young woman and she's probably sincere when she says she is "very interested" in visiting Cusco. I believe that "very," coming from Paris. It's just that the last thing Machu Picchu needs is another mega-celebrity and an entourage of photographers stomping over its fragile terraces. Paris Hilton + Maxim bikini babes + Machu Picchu + huge publicity = even more tourists flocking to the ancient site = bad news for archeological preservation. In case the news didn't reach you (and why should it have, given how little coverage the U.S. media gives to serious issues in contrast with the endless bandwidth it devotes to celebrity antics and the wardrobe choices of certain vice-presidential candidates?), the ruins of Machu Picchu are in trouble. Built in the 14^th century atop a remote mountain peak, Machu Picchu was never meant to accommodate large numbers of people. It most likely was a retreat for the Inca elite, who lived most of the year in the city of Cusco. Archaeologists estimate that 1,000 people, at most, lived there year-round.

Today, about 800,000 people visit the site per year – twice as many as did so in 1998, notes a July 2008 AP story (click here for "Too much tourism, development at Peru's Machu Picchu may earn it endangered status").

The influx of tourists is placing incredible strains on the rock staircases, terraces and structures themselves. Cracks have opened up in the building's hand-carved rocks, making the site vulnerable to collapsing in a landslide. The situation is so dire UNESCO may add the cloud-shrouded ruins to its list of endangered World Heritage sites.

What has led to the onslaught of tourists? Partly it has been due to improvements in Peru's tourism infrastructure as a whole, as well as the decline in terrorism. The recent boom is certainly a result of Machu Picchu's designation in 2007 as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.

And adding fire to the dynamite, if you will, is the rush of celebrities to visit Machu Picchu, with the media tracking their every step along the Inca Trail and back. Cameron Diaz, Woody Harrelson and other celebrities made Machu Picchu the new hot spot, as World Hum reported in December 2007:

Close followers of Celebrity Travel Watch will recall Cameron Diaz's visit to Machu Picchu earlier this year, when her backpacker-commie-chic look—the shoulder bag pictured here says "Serve the People" in Chinese—was seen by some in Peru as too commie and not enough chic. (Turns out Maoist propaganda doesn't always go over so well in a country that's been terrorized by Maoist insurgents.) Well, now the Los Angeles Times is declaring Machu Picchu a "must-see for the jet set"—and not just celebs with Mao-inspired totes from China. Bill Gates made the trek this year, and in the last week or so Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson landed in Cuzco with plans to visit Machu Picchu, although they apparently scrapped the trip to the Incan ruins after "a run-in with several local journalists. Officials have taken steps to limit Inca Trail traffic."

The reporter added jokingly:

What's next? Limits on celebrity visitors?

Maybe that comment sounded absurd in 2007. Now with close to a million people a year stomping on the sacred site, the idea no longer is far-fetched. It may indeed be time to declare a moratorium on celebrity appearances at MP, at least until the local tourism industry agrees to limit visitors to the site.

Sorry, Paris. You may be "very interested" in Cusco and Machu Picchu, but Machu Picchu doesn't need your star power.

Maybe you could take your bikini and model entourage to another Peruvian destination that needs the exposure as well as humanitarian aid--say, the earthquake-devastated region of Pisco and Chincha?