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FIFA Bans High-Altitude Matches

29-May-07

Disappointing news for Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia: FIFA says no more international soccer games above 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) in altitude. So much for the legendary home field advantage courtesy of the rarefied Andean air.
BBC News:
Football’s governing body, Fifa, has banned international matches from being played at more than 2,500m (8,200ft) above sea […]

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Carpe Manana

06-Mar-07

The BBC News’s Kathryn Westcott:
At noon on the dot, punctuality will make its debut in Peru. Lateness will be a thing of the past, or so its government hopes.
Sirens will blare and church bells will ring to remind 27 million Peruvians to synchronise their clocks with time set by the Peruvian Navy.
Fed up with […]

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Eating Guinea Pigs in the Andes — and America

02-Nov-06

Guinea pigs: they’re not from Guinea and they’re not pigs.
Discuss.
But seriously:
The CSM’s Chip Mitchell:
Guinea pig: It’s what’s for dinner in Peru - and the US: Farmers in Peru boost their income by exporting guinea pigs to immigrants in the US.
I tried this special dish on a couple of occasions when I lived in Ecuador — […]

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Google Quechua

23-Aug-06

Thanks to Google Quechua, Indigenous people in the Andes can now search the Web in their native tongue.
Economist:
Estimates of the prevalence of Quechua vary widely. In Peru, there are thought to be 3m to 4.5m speakers, with others in Bolivia and Ecuador. The language has long been in slow decline, chiefly because the children of […]

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Bolivia, Evo Morales, and Market-Dominant Minorities

28-Nov-05

According to the NYT’s Juan Forero, coca-legalization proponent and indigenous coalition leader Evo Morales just might become the next president of Bolivia.
The election of Morales in Bolivia would represent the triumph of indigenous groups over the minority white elite ruling class — as well as the rejection of what’s viewed as American imperialism and the […]

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