Peru: Pulling back the Veil 1

The eight journalists were buried in four graves excavated next to a creek near Uchuraccay. Their bodies were exhumed four days after they were massacred. Photo courtesy of Carmen Hulbert.

The eight journalists were buried in four graves excavated next to a creek near Uchuraccay. Their bodies were exhumed four days after they were massacred. Photo courtesy of Carmen Hulbert.

Leave Lima, travel a long road to 4,000 meters up in Peru’s central highlands and you come to Uchuraccay. It’s a remote and desolate place. Most people outside Peru have never heard of it. Jane McClenahan on a story rarely been covered in mainstream media.

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Northern Ireland: Back with a future? Reply

This Fall, US Ambassador Richard Haass is back working in Belfast.  It’s a familiar desk for one of the US’s most experienced mediators to get his feet under.  Yet, he recently admitted many in the United States were puzzled as to why he was returning to Northern Ireland.  Aren’t those problems over they asked?Jane McClenahan looks at why he’s there.

Ambassador Richard Haass. Courtesy of CFR

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