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From high in the Andean mountains to the tables of Lima, Emma Henderson traces the humble potato from it traditional roots to ...

A new study finds that Indigenous Andeans living in what is now Peru have extra copies of a gene called AMY1, which helps the ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon who are calling for the government to stop oil and gas projects in their territory took their case to an international human rights body ...

LIMA, Peru — In an industrial corridor of Peru’s capital, a dingy stairwell leads to a second-floor safehouse. Dozens of Quechua and Aymara activists lie on mattresses strewn on the floor, resting up ...

Government agencies in Peru have voted against establishing a new reserve meant to protect Indigenous people living in part of the country’s Amazon basin from outside incursions. Indigenous groups in ...

Between 2013 and 2024, 38 leaders of Amazonian indigenous peoples in Peru were assassinated by mafias associated with illegal mining, logging and drug trafficking. Organizations advocating for the ...

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