…load speed and 182 for data carrying capacity. Gestión of Lima said that this is the conclusion of the Peruvian Organization of Consumers and Users (Opecu), which noted Peru’s poor speed performance from the Internet ranks as among the lowest in the world. (And to add insult to injury, Uruguay is the country in the region with the highest rates, according Opecu). Peru has average speeds of 5.44 and 1.09 megabits per second and trails on the Intern…

…or Arbitration Court to issue an injunction against State-owned Electric Utility (CDEEE). Dominican Today of Santo Domingo wrote that the National Committee to Fight Climate Change filed the request to order the CDEEE to provide the cadastral surveys and titles for the land on which it plans to build coal-fired power plants. The National Committee is asking for the decree declaring the land eminent domain, the purchase or lease contract and its ow…

…sé carved two images from the same tree trunk. The first, labeled as the original, is today in the Caacupé Sanctuary and the other in the city of Tobatí.” Its history is “slightly coated in legend,” but it depicts the “reality that missionaries taught the Indians the gospel, the love for Christ, and devotion to the Virgin Mary,” said Father Toledo. There are documents showing that the image of the Virgin has been in the Sanctuary of Caacupé since…

…f Santiago wrote that of the total number of complaints, 43.2% were about airlines, 39.7% were about intercity buses, and 17.2% were about travel agencies. The main causes of the complaints about airlines were the failure to fulfill contractual obligations, (26.7%), claims of defective service (18.3%), and loss or damage to baggage (11.9%). Of the total of the 5,385 complaints about airlines, 77.5% concerned Lan-Latam Airlines Group SA; Sky Airlin…

…ent of Marketplace del Mercado Libre urged listeners to realize that “prioritizing money is not fulfilling.” “It is better,” he said, “to know from the start what skills you have and what things you are really good at and find your then path accordingly… It is important to find your north, [to have] a goal.” He continued by explaining that young professionals should reach out to their leaders, but first form a clear vision of what they want to do…

Journalists from across Latin America, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, received prizes at the King of Spain International Journalism Awards ceremony held in Madrid on February 28. So reports Vistazo Magazine of Ecuador . The ceremony marked the thirty-second edition of the Awards, which are convened annually by the Spanish news agency Agencia EFE and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation. In the te…

…wrote Michael Krumholtz in the Tico Times of San José . Costa Rican authorities say David Strecker, known by his nickname “Cuba Dave,” has been illegally promoting the country as a sex tourism destination. While trying to make a routine departure from Costa Rica earlier this month, 65-year-old U.S. citizen Dave Strecker was instead handcuffed at Juan Santamaría International Airport outside the capital and taken to one of the country’s prisons. H…

The details keep arriving from Switzerland, where the president of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies “hid a fortune.” In Página/12 of Buenos Aires Darius Pignotti wrote that “driving a Porsche is something divine.” Investigators have found that Eduardo Cunha, the “evangelical” leader of the Brazil’s lower house of Congress who is seemingly on a mission to “overthrow President Dilma Rousseff” because of her “unethical” behavior, bought two Porsche…

…“emotions don’t have a price.” El Comercio of Quito wrote that the deputy minister of tourism promotion, Dominic Hamilton, outlined their goals for the World Travel Market (WTM) fair in the British capital. Among the more significant elements of the campaign was the “Feel Again” project that brought together a group of graphic artists from different countries who traveled the country from the Andes to the Amazon. They included “art directors, phot…

…98,000 pesos. Those caught included officials and former officials of municipalities of Cauca and Nariño, as well as active police. Much of the money ended up in an armed group outside the law. Among those apprehended were Simón Estupiñán, ‘Don Simón’, treasurer of the municipality of Iscuandé (Nariño), who was the head of the organization, and another former city official, Amílkar Obando Toloza, ‘Hamo.’ A source who was part of…