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Peru Research Paper

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Peru is rich with minerals, natural resources, and precious metals such as silver, gold, copper, timber, iron ore, coal, potash, phosphate, petroleum, and natural gas. Natural resources have created Peru's infrastructure jump in growth in recent years. Peru has been building roads that go through different types of terrain to include mountains, rainforest and urban areas. Peruvians have updated their railway systems that transport civilians to and from their jobs all throughout the country. Although Peru is wealthy; unfortunately the majority of this income from these natural resources does not make it to the miners and farmers that work long days in order to acquire the resources for global sale. Many of Peru's citizens still live in poverty …show more content…

Multiple companies generate approximately 80 percent of the country's electricity. The internet service providers service almost 1,000,000 citizens across the country. Majority of the citizens living in the urban areas have cell phones, but the citizens living in small villages do not have as much of the modernized luxurys.
Peru is an ever-changing climate system due to the mixture of terrain and climate that consist of everything from tropical forest in the east and deserts in the west. Additionally, in the Andes Mountains the temperature is always much colder than the rest of the Country and is located in the center of the Country. Peru maintains a stable southern hemisphere climate, one that is near reversed of the northern hemisphere with the summer months being December through February and the winter following in July through September. However, off the coast of South America an event changes the weather that happens every 2-7 years. The local citizens have named this event El Nino, which means "The Little Boy" due to its occurrence in December. During El Nino, the waters off Peru's coast begin to warm and cause large numbers of fish to die, effecting the wildlife and local population greatly. The fishers that live on the coast of Peru suffer tremendously due to the fish that die off are their main source of food and food production during this event. Additionally, …show more content…

One of the main terrorist organizations in Peru is the Sendero Luminoso, which means Shining Path. This organization has a goal to destroy the institutions of the Peruvians and make the country into a communist institution. The Sendero Luminoso has approximately 100-200 members that operate in the rural parts of the country. The Sendero Luminoso opposes outside influence of foreign officials. During the 1990's, the Sendero Luminoso attempted to car bomb the US embassy located in Peru. Another terrorist organization that is operating in Peru is the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement or MRTA with approximately 100 members. This group wants to establish a Marxist regime and get rid of all United States of America and Japanese imperial groups in Peru. The MRTA is a group that has conducted bombings, kidnappings, and other terroristic activities in the past. Recently, these groups' activities have slowed down over the recent years, and the groups have been eliminated from the

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