1. All Politics is Local
   Election night in Peru's largest prison
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Daniel Alarcon explores the internal politics of Peru's largest prison.
2. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1977
   
3. Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
   Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1969
   The four essays in this book offer a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin American history as an aspect of the world-wide spread of capitalism in its commercial and industrial phases.
4. Connexions
   Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1981
   
5. Connexions
   Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1982
   
6. Connexions Digest
   Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1989
   
7. The Devil Operation
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   A tale of corporate espionage unfolds in this exposé of torture, intimidation, and murder of Peruvian eco-activists and indigenous farmers. Shocking video footage, horrifying photos, and meticulous reports compiled by private security firms working for U.S. and British-owned gold mines are co-opted by the filmmakers to reveal the truth.
8. Editor of Amazonian weekly gets one-year sentence for defamation
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2010
   Reporters Without Borders condemns the one-year jail sentence that a court in Bagua, in the northeastern Amazonian province of Utcumbamba in Peru, passed yesterday on Alejandro Carrascal Carrasco, the editor of the regional weekly Nor Oriente.
9. Embassy Row Online
   Resource Type: Website
   Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
10. Eradicating Extreme Poverty
    Democracy, Globalisation and Human Rights
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    A new approach to eradicating extreme poverty, contrasted with conventional "top-down" approaches.
11. Fair Trade gold mining in the highlands of Peru
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Most gold mining in Peru causes serious environmental damage, but there is one exception - a Fair Trade certified mine close to the world-famous Nazca Lines. Now it's up to us to demand Fair Trade gold from the jewellery trade, rewarding responsible producers and expanding the market for new Fair Trade gold miners.
12. Five journalists attacked during protests against Conga mining project
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Five journalists were attacked and injured during violent protests against a proposed mine in the northern Cajamarca region of Peru, a day after the government declared a state of emergency.
13. Former President of Peru to receive Honorary Doctorate of Laws on June 2, 2009
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The former President of Peru, Alejandro Toledo â## a man of Indigenous Andean heritage who began as a shoeshine boy and rose to become a respected economist â## will be in Winnipeg on June 2, 2009 to receive an Honorary Doctorate of Laws.
14. Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free Status
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study.
15. The guardians of the Andean potato
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    More than 2,800 types of potatoes are known to have originated in Peru. The existence of these varieties can be attributed to the high value the Quechua people place on their cultural traditions and biological diversity.
16. How not to grow a new town
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    For years the governments of Peru, and the municipality of Lima, had a working deal with rural migrants who flocked to the city: we'll plan the place, you build it, amenities will arrive. Then came the cheap neoliberal substitute of granting land titles -- and the speculation began.
17. Illegal loggers remain hidden in Peru's forest but timber finds global buyers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    State exercises little control over remote Amazon region blighted by poverty and illiteracy, and organised crime fills the vacuum.
18. In the Wake of Carnage
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Book review of "Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru" by Kimberly Theidon.
19. Killing Hope
    U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
20. Latest FOCALPoint is out! Focus on the Brazilian presidential elections, crime in Jamaica and youth violence in Central America.
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The September edition of FOCALPoint focuses on the Brazilian presidential elections, crime in Jamaica, youth violence in Central America and mining in Peru, among other issues.
21. A Long and Terrible Shadow
    White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
22. Mining Peru
    Canada's New Territory?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    In Peru, 40 percent of conflicts involving local communities are over mining. The majority of the mining sector in Peru is owned by Canadian corporations.
23. Open Veins of Latin America
    Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
24. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
    Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
25. OXFAM Canada
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
26. The Peruvian "Stalker Law" Will Be Reviewed By Congress, We Can Still Stop It
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Bogado and Rodriguez discuss the new decree in Peru known as "Ley Acosadora", or "the Stalker Law", allows warrantless access to Peruvians' location data and creates a new power for the government to track the movements of vulnerable mobile and Internet users.
27. Relentless Persistence
    Nonviolent Action in Latin America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
28. Scientists: protect vast Amazon peatland to avoid palm oil 'environmental disaster'
    A recently discovered peatland in northeast Peru contains two years worth of US carbon emissions, writes Joe Sandler Clarke, but it's under
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The peatland in Pastaza-Marañón Foreland Basin in northeast Peru - discovered in 2009 by Finnish scientist Outi Lähteenoja - is said to contain 3.14 gigatons of carbon, roughly equivalent to two years of CO2 emissions from the United States. Scientists have said that economic development in the region, like road-building and the arrival of commercial agriculture threatens the important ecosystem.
29. The Slave Trade
    The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
    
30. Stolen Continents
    The "New World" Through Indian Eyes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    A history of the Americas through Native eyes.
31. An Unauthorized Biography of the World
    Oral History on the Front Lines
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
32. When oil is more important than life
    Oil exploitation leaves trail of pollution and death in the Peruvian Amazon
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The dumping of oil waste into the waters of the Marañón, Corrientes, Pastaza and Tigre rivers and the Amazon forest is producing fatal consequences for the local population, mostly to the Kukama ethnic group. The responsible are well-known oil companies, but the Peruvian authorities have not acted with timeliness, making them responsible as well. For years, victims have protested against pollution and violence, but the oil business has always had the upper hand.

Experts on Peru in the Sources Directory

1. Latin American Economic System
2. Latin American Parliament
3. Organization of American States
4. Union of South American Nations
5. United Nations