Police force at least 2,000 vendors squatting in Peru market

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Police force at least 2,000 vendors squatting in Peru market
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 05.29.2007

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Police firing tear gas on Monday forced out at least 2,000 vendors who had illegally occupied a market in eastern Lima, ending a nearly five-year standoff between the city government and the vendors.

Television images showed some vendors throwing bottles at officers who fired back tear gas. But most peacefully left the Santa Anita market, a dusty 200-acre piece of land where vendors sold fruit, meat and vegetables.

Officials had prepared for a violent clash with the vendors, since many had built their homes on the lot and vowed to die before being removed.

The land belongs to a company owned by Lima's municipal government. It had planned to open its own wholesale market on the lot, but squatters arrived in 2002 and refused to leave.


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28 May, 2007 < 17:00 >

Peru: Increase in unwanted pregnancy related suicides


(LIP-jl) -- When young mothers have unwanted pregnancies, most either carry on and keep their unborn child, give their child up for adoption, or in the most severe of cases, seek some type of medical intervention. However, according to Peruvian authorities, some young mothers in Peru are choosing suicide as a way out of their unwanted pregnancies.

Officials from Peru's Health Ministry and Interior Ministry informed yesterday about the increase of these suicides in the Andean nation.

According to health officials, 30 young women have already committed suicide this year, despite increased efforts on the part of Peru's Health Ministry to provide alternatives to dealing with the pregnancies.

Thirty suicides were attributed to unwanted pregnancies in all of 2006, while 16 were registered during 2005.

More:
http://www.livinginperu.com/news-3925-peru-peru-increase-unwanted-pregnancy-related-suicides

http://www.whitehouse.gov.nyud.net:8090/news/releases/2006/10/images/20061010-4_d-0171-1-515h.jpg

Peru's President, Alan Garcia and his American friend.

[shenmue]

1. Dreadful

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