A sloth that was found slowly crawling on a highway in Peru was rescued by police, a video released on Wednesday (22 February) shows. Footage posted by the National Police of Peru shows Campo Verde ...

2004-11-05 04:00:00 PDT Assis, Brazil-- Leaders of Brazil and Peru have long dreamed of bolstering their trade by connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans with a 2,500-mile highway that passes deep ...

Traveling from Brazil’s Atlantic coast to Assis, on the border with Peru deep in the Amazon, took Raul Pereira weeks over a precarious dirt road in 1974. The trip required machetes. Today, his house ...

Serra do Divisor National Park on Brazil’s border with Peru is home to numerous endemic animals and more than a thousand plant species, but faces a double threat from a planned highway and a bid to ...

In 2010, I began documenting life along Peru's Interoceanic Highway, a new route crossing the spectacular terrain from the Pacific Coast, over the Andes Mountains, through the Amazon Basin to the ...

The president of Peru; Bolivia and Brazil inaugurated a $ 810 million highway project to connect Brazil's Atlantic coast to Peru's Pacific port before the end of the decade. Brazilian President Luiz ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. UCAYALI REGION, Peru — Peru has passed a controversial law that makes highway construction in border areas and maintaining trucking roads in the ...

LIMA, Peru — Puerto Maldonado, in Peru’s southeastern Amazon region, feels like the end of the road. In this hot, dusty town 500 miles east of Lima, young men on motorbikes scour the streets looking ...

Mineworkers in Peru on Friday joined a growing group of farmworkers in blocking major highways throughout the country, ratcheting up pressure on newly appointed interim President Francisco Sagasti.

The crash occurred just north of Lima, the capital. — -- Officers in Peru are racing to rescue victims after a bus fell over the edge of the Pan-American Highway, killing at least 48 people, ...

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