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 Stories About: globalization AND Peru AND United States
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Beans for Lima
Activists are fighting a new agreement between the U.S. and Peru |
Kelly Hearn |
11 May 2006 |
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| A logger drives his freshly cut mahogany logs upriver toward Ivochote, a scratchy, low-slung jungle town in Peru's eastern Amazon. Hoping to convert his illegal revenues into some weekend lovin', he takes maca, a traditional Peruvian libido enhancer. He heads to a nearby brothel, but its employees are too busy protesting pollution caused by a foreign mining company to entertain him. Frustra ... |
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| Topics: globalization, Peru, United States (all these topics) |
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