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Monday, 5 March 2012

Bono wrote a letter to Ollanta Humala: "It has major obstacles to Machu Picchu"

Before leaving Peru, musician wrote a message to the president in which he promised to return with guitar in hand.

On Wednesday afternoon, Bono concluded his visit to Peru. However, before leaving, decided to write a message to President Ollanta Humala . In this, the U2 frontman recognized as good work of the Peruvian president and some politicians that accompany it, "the finance minister (Luis Miguel) Castilla ."

The letter of Bono Vox, you can see at this link reads as follows:

"Mr. President Ollanta, please send your best wishes to my family and me. We know how committed you are to the fight against extreme poverty in Peru: 15, 30, 50%. We welcome this and we are delighted to have traveled to this charming country in times of favorable changes. We know you have to climb obstacles larger than Machu Picchu, but we will be there to celebrate when you reach the summit.

This was a family trip and I hope the next time we meet it with a guitar in my hand in Lima. Someday. The last time we fail to put together the itinerary. Perhaps there could have a coffee, tea or something stronger.

Please know that ONE, our foundation has about three million members worldwide. They fight for the poor and against corruption that keeps them in that state. We are also particularly involved in the extractive sector: working with mining groups to be more transparent. (The light of day, the sun, as always are the antidote to illuminate the dark corners) (...) Even though sometimes the hard way, we hear you're a man of open mind and you have good people with you as the minister (Luis Miguel) Castilla.

Our love for his wife Nadine, her daughters and her son too.

God bless you. Bono " Thursday 01 march 2012 - 09:02 am
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Peru’s economic growth not reaching rural highlands


By Robert Plummer
Business reporter, BBC News

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Presidents Alan García (Perú) and Sebastián Piñera (Chile) are both free-marketeers. (Photo: AP)

Peru is recalling darker times as [Keiko Fujimori], the daughter of an authoritarian ex-leader prepares to run for the presidency.

Although this country has the highest projected 2010 growth rate among Latin America's major economies (8.3 percent, according to the IMF), Peru's president, Alan García, has just a 34 percent approval rating.

Admittedly, that is far better than the 5 percent rating that he had at the end of his first presidential term, from 1985 to 1990.

But that earlier term was an unmitigated disaster that saw the country's GDP shrink by one-fifth and the number of people in poverty rise by five million.

This time, Mr García has presided over boom, not bust. Yet the gains have not been equally distributed among Peru's population: while urban coastal areas have benefited, the rural highlands remain impoverished.

Mr García's last presidential stint was followed by a decade of authoritarian rule under Alberto Fujimori, who rebuilt Peru's economy and saved it from the Maoist Shining Path insurgency, but rode roughshod over the country's democratic process.

Mr García is not eligible to run again in the April 2011 presidential election. However, Mr Fujimori's daughter, Keiko, is hoping to win the post for her Fuerza 2011 party.

She and Mr Fujimori's own successor, Alejandro Toledo, are vying with a former mayor of Lima, Luis Castañeda, in opinion polls.

All three front-runners are drawn from the right or center-right. As a result, the victor is likely to join Chile's Sebastián Piñera and Colombia's Juan Manuel Santos, both elected during 2010, in South America's small band of non-leftist leaders.

Peru's state health service criticized for supply shortages


Courtesy: LivinginPeru

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The principal state hospital in Lima, Rebagliati Hospital. (Photo: El Comercio)

Peru’s state health plan, Essalud, was criticized by the Ombudsman national office for shortage of supplies and long waits for surgeries, reported El Comercio.

“There are not enough beds, fans, wheelchairs,” said Eugenia Fernán Zegarra from the office of the Ombudsman, called the Defensoría del Pueblo.

“Services are insufficient and supplies are extremely low compared to the rising demand, and this is serious because we are close to starting universal care, where everyone will be part of the same system. It’s clear that Essalud won’t be able to handle it.”

Annual reports made by the Defensoría del Pueblo signal a shortage of medicine for hypertension and for the basic equipment for surgey, such as catheters.

Fernán says the Defensoría del Pueblo received a complaint in which a girl waited nine months waiting for a surgery because there was not a catheter.

“To date there are 200 children waiting in the pediatrics unit waiting for space to be operated on,” Fernán told El Comercio.

In 2009, 42 percent of the budget went towards salary and expenses of the 40,142 workers. Out of this personnel expense, 37 percent went to 3,000 administrative positions.

Maximum monthly salaries for surgeons in Essalud are 3,500 soles (US$ 1,250), while nurse assistants receive at most 760 soles (US$ 271).

The current president of Essalud, Félix Ortega, has told Congress that the institution had to dip into 20 percent of a reserve fund, money set aside for emergencies and epidemics.

Last Thursday, the National Comptroller’s Office sent 35 inspectors to review Essalud’s books, following the recent scandal over a US$ 73,000 payment given to outgoing Essalud president Fernando Barrios.

The Essalud president left for a position as interior minister; once press learned of the irregular payment, Barrios resigned from the ministry.