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Article: Trading out of trouble: alternative traders often operate in countries, and under conditions, where conventional traders fear to tread.
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- New Internationalist
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- April 1, 2000
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Peru -- hope at hand
Juan Licas Coronado, president of the handicraft group Razu Willka, is taking me to the barrios altos to visit some of the artisans who work there. Bumping over dusty tracks in a battered old minibus with melancholic huayno music screeching out of its broken windows, we rattle up to a part of the city of Ayacucho I never knew existed. Dry, crumbling hillsides are crowded with scruffy settlements, their corrugated-iron roofs glinting in the blinding mountain sunlight. Through years of civil war in Peru, migration has caused Huamanga to grow from a compact little town of 74,000 in 1981 to a sprawling mass of more than 120,000 people today. In a ...
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... ... dog. The overnight bus from Lima to Ayacucho takes a brand-new road, rich in hairpin ... It's 15 years since I was last in Ayacucho, birthplace of this conflict. At that ... interviewed then. The bus finally pulls up in Ayacucho City -- also known as Huamanga -- the ...
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