http://www.bicusa.org/en/Project.10312.aspx The latest news on the Southern Interoceanic Highway (Peru-Brazil) from the Bank Information Center 10 http://www.infodev.org/images/infodev.gif http://www.bicusa.org/en/Project.10312.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12516.aspx Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:24:33 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12516.aspx With gold’s price soaring globally as the metal became a hedge against financial uncertainty, the army of small-scale miners in the state of Madre de Dios has swelled to some 40,000. The result: Diesel exhaust sullies the air, trees are toppled to get at the sandy, gold-flecked earth and the scars inflicted on the land are visible on satellite photos. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12514.aspx Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:20:31 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12514.aspx Despite high interest rates and high household electricity tariffs, Brazilian economy has been growing at the highest rates seen in decades. Another problem that, although not in the way of growth, must be overcome is the costly use of roads for transporting farm products – issue being addressed by the expansion of railway networks. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12513.aspx Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:44:53 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12513.aspx In 2010, the Brazilian direct investment in Peru was US$1.014 billion, almost triple that in 2009, when it was $492 million . The Chamber of Commerce Peru-Brazil (Capebras) estimated investment to reach $32 billion in 2016. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12499.aspx Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:17:14 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12499.aspx The construction of the Peru-Brazil Southern Interoceanic Corridor (IIRSA SUR) has generated economic benefits worth US$3 billion, reported the President of Peru’s Supervisory Board for Investment in Public Transport Infrastructure (Ositran), Juan Carlos Zevallos. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12432.aspx Sat, 07 May 2011 09:56:33 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12432.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12409.aspx Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:53:51 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12409.aspx In a bill that was proposed in 2008, the Peruvian Congress Commission on Andean, Indigenous and Afro-Peruvian Peoples, Environment and Ecology, approved a bill to protect the areas and biodiversity affected by the Southern Interoceanic highway. The bill awaits the President's signature. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12319.aspx Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:18:37 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12319.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12310.aspx Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:34:38 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12310.aspx Read about the upcoming regional workshops in Puerto Maldonado, Puno and Cusco, organized by the Peruvian Environment Ministry. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12284.aspx Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:27:47 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12284.aspx The Transoceanic Highway, evoking engineering marvels such as the Transcontinental Railroad and the Panama Canal, has been talked about for decades, assuming a mythic stature that has led many to question whether the east-west thoroughfare linking Brazil's Atlantic ports with the Pacific docks of Peru would ever come to pass. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12248.aspx Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:16:25 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12248.aspx Authors Claudia Enrique and Vanessa Cueto of Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR) in Peru conducted an independent assessment of a program to mitigate the social and environmental effects of the highway currently being built in Peru. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12212.aspx Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:12:49 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12212.aspx Corporacion Andina de Fomento (CAF) informed about the progress of the Inter-Oceanic Highway construction as well as the achievements of the productive projects implemented to improve the quality of life of people in the area of influence of the corridor. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12204.aspx Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:03:18 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12204.aspx Construction workers are fighting the clock to finish the last stretch of the Southern Inter-Oceanic Highway, in southeastern Peru, apparently unaware that about 100 kilometres of this road connecting to Brazil will be covered by water once the Inambari hydroelectric dam is built nearby. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12195.aspx Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:18:35 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12195.aspx A CAF delegation – formed by Infrastructure Vice President Antonio Juan Sosa, and CAF representative director in Peru Eleonora Silva Pardo – visited Madre de Dios and Cusco departments to monitor the progress of construction of the Southern Interoceanic Highway. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12144.aspx Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:29:35 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12144.aspx Later this year, Peru will begin to send their exports to Brazil via the Southern Inter-Oceanic Highway, said the head of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur), Martin Perez. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12132.aspx Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:42:03 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12132.aspx The new highway that will connect Brazil to Peru by the end of this year threatens one of the last great treasures of humanity. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12130.aspx Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:58:31 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12130.aspx Fifty-three percent of Peru is covered with native rainforest, but the agencies in charge of protecting and monitoring this vast area are toothless and have neither the staff nor the resources to cope with the job, according to a report from the Defensoría del Pueblo (Ombudsperson's Office). http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12069.aspx Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:01:14 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12069.aspx Human rights defense entities estimate that each year, around 1,200 girls from 12 to 17 years of age come to the roadside camps set for workers of the extractive industries to work as prostitutes. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12068.aspx Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:41:49 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12068.aspx In Guacamayo, in the province of Madre de Dios, in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, the million-dollar business of illegal glod extraction threatens to destroy the region. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12067.aspx Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:35:22 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12067.aspx Peru's President Alan Garcia has inaugurated the first stretch of the Interoceanica Sur highway, which required an investment of more than US$68mn, the presidential website reported. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12057.aspx Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:23:39 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12057.aspx The Supervisory Body on Public Transport Infrastructure Investment (Ositran) estimated that Section 2 of the Southern Interoceanic Highway will be completely ready by this coming November. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12045.aspx Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:12:01 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12045.aspx This month's edition of the BICECA Monthly Bulletin features a summary of the event entitled "Oil and Mining Booms and Sustainable Development: Lessons from Peru for Development Planning & Revenue Management at the National and subnational level" (Washington, DC, June 16, 2010). http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11979.aspx Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:44:08 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11979.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11780.aspx Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:07:53 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11780.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11777.aspx Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:09:11 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11777.aspx Book Launch: Jan. 26 & 27, 2009 - Lima, Peru: Peruvian Amazon in 2021-Infrastructure and the Exploitation of Natural Resources: What is happening and what does it mean for the future? by Marc Dourojeanni, Alberto Barandiarán y Diego Dourojeanni is a publication in which the authors fill a informational gap that exists for Peruvian citizens regarding what the government and private investors plan to do in the coming decade in the Peruvian Amazon. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11748.aspx Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:33:38 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11748.aspx Expert in envrionmental issues Marc Dourojeanni criticized Peru for its lack of an Amazon Development Plan and warned that the Peruvian jungle will experience irreversible changes if even a third of the planned projects are implemented over the next 12 years. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11746.aspx Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:19:11 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11746.aspx The Andean Development Corporation (CAF) confirmed today that it has approved an additional loan of 200 million dollars for the implementation of the final phase of of sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Southern Interoceanic Highway (CVIS). The total cost of the project, originally set at $892 million in 2006 could now exceed $2 billion. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11735.aspx Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:54:49 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11735.aspx The Andean Development Corporation (CAF) approved a loan of 200 million dollars to Peru for the implementation of the final phase of sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Southern Interoceanic Highway (CVIS), the organization confirmed today. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11731.aspx Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:21:24 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11731.aspx The construction company blames illegal mining, while the authorities blame the own construction company http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11704.aspx Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:20:14 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11704.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11696.aspx Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:16:45 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11696.aspx The government of Peru approved a resolution authorizing the use of a non-reimbursable technical cooperation from the CAF to begin the design of second generation project to mitigate the direct and indirect impacts of the Southern Interoceanic Highway. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11678.aspx Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:45:25 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11678.aspx A flight over the forest between Madre de Dios and Puno provides a panoramic view of the devastation: thousands of tons of removed soil and forests that have disappeared or been buried beneath waste left by years of intense and illegal gold mining activity in the Amazon. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11628.aspx Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:10:28 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11628.aspx A $150 million loan will help expand and refurbish the road network, putting the country on a stronger economic footing. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11582.aspx Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:02:23 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11582.aspx Small and medium-scale mining in Peru are no longer artisan activities. They have become a veritable machinery complex, moving millions of dollars on the black market. The general director of Mining at the Ministry of Energy and Mines, Víctor Vargas, acknowledged that this activity is no longer exclusive to Puno and Madre de Dios, and has in fact extended throughout the entire country. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11578.aspx Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:03:51 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11578.aspx Peru approves Law Nº 27446, which establishes a national Environmental Impact Assessment system http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11535.aspx Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:38:41 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11535.aspx "We're working with the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) to work out the details of a new credit for the final stage of the project, which will be approved by the end of the year", stated AFC representative Eleonora Silva. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11529.aspx Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:16:13 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11529.aspx "The fund will be for cost-effective infrastructure projects. In Peru we have a deficit of between 7 and 10 billion dollars in infrastructure”, IDB director for Peru, Ana María Rodríguez told reporters. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11504.aspx Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:56:16 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11504.aspx The Andean Finance Corporation (CAF) is evaluating a new line of credit to finance the Southern Interoceanic Highway, which is to be approved early next year, CAF representative Elenora Silva reported today. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11458.aspx Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:55:58 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11458.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11444.aspx Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:24:09 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11444.aspx The loan will finance an environmental sustainability reform program in the country. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11442.aspx Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:53:18 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11442.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11392.aspx Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:01:57 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11392.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11391.aspx Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:55:41 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11391.aspx Puerto Maldonaldo, Madre de Dios, in heart of the Peruvian jungle, is the home to some of the worst offenses of sexual trafficking of minors. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11382.aspx Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:27:21 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11382.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11381.aspx Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:19:20 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11381.aspx Peru's environment minister now says the government will pay indigenous communities 10 sols ($3.30) for every hectare of rainforest they help to preserve, reports the Latin American Herald. Previously Antonio Brack said that communities would see about half that amount. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11380.aspx Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:47:38 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11380.aspx Specialist warns of more deforestation from increased migration http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11334.aspx Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:30:45 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11334.aspx Hydroelectric dams, Biofuels, Hydrocarbons top the list. A business delegation is programmed for the second semester of 2009 to explore biofuel investment opportunities. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11313.aspx Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:02:33 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11313.aspx Cost overruns could push the total for the highway to over $2 billion http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11312.aspx Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:49:46 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11312.aspx Affected communities of the proposed Inambari hydroelectric project from Puno argue that the project will bring more costs than benefits; the Andean Southern Natural Gas Pipeline is neither a guaranteed for the Southern Peruvian department. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11304.aspx Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:37:04 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11304.aspx Puno Congressional leader, Susana Vilca Achata, stated that the Inambari Hydroelectric Project will negatively affect that Southern Interoceanic Highway and native peoples, and therefore the private Brazilian contractor, Amazonas Sur, should reformulate the design of the project. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11303.aspx Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:32:07 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11303.aspx Negotiations are underway for the construction of six hydroelectric power plants in the Peruvian Amazon Region in a joint initiative of Alan Garcia and Lula da Silva. Serious inquires about the nature of the intiative and its implications for the region are not resolved which signals further problems. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11256.aspx Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:45:40 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11256.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11245.aspx Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:10:39 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11245.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11247.aspx Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11247.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11246.aspx Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11246.aspx Peru has historically had one of the lowest annual deforestation rates in the Amazon basin, but forest loss has been increasing in recent years due to illegal logging, mining, agriculture, and expansion of road networks, including the paving of a highway that provides access to a remote and biologically-rich region in southeastern part of the country. In 2005 — the most recent year for which data is available — at least 150,000 hectares of forest was lost, while a similar area was degraded through logging and other activitie http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11205.aspx Sun, 24 May 2009 08:30:30 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11205.aspx Peruvian Congress Approves Report Says No Irregularities in the Southern Inter-oceanic Highway, Opposition Legislators Question the Integrity of the Procedure, Doubts Remain; Brazilian delegation from Rondonia visits Puno; 130 km of highway in Madre de Dios inaugurated; Transport Sector calls for further investigation of construction problems. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11203.aspx Sat, 23 May 2009 07:33:58 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11203.aspx 12 Archeological Prehispanic sites have been identified in Section 4 of the Southern Interceanic Highway, between Azángaro to the Inambari bridge, on the border of Puno with Madre de Dios, informed Flavio Leite Mesquita, lead of CONIRSA Concesionaire. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11200.aspx Fri, 22 May 2009 11:49:43 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11200.aspx President Alan Garcia, Dr. Ernesto Cornejo and the Odebrecht led concessionaire CONIRSA inaugurated on May 14, 130 km of Section 3 of the Southern Interoceanic Highway between Tampopata and Iberia. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11194.aspx Fri, 22 May 2009 09:30:56 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11194.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11140.aspx Wed, 06 May 2009 12:59:13 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11140.aspx The nightmarish prospect of a scarred Amazonian jungle reeking of diesel fumes from end to end, as heavy-laden trucks thunder by in round-the-clock convoys, is fast becoming a reality. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11139.aspx Tue, 05 May 2009 10:53:48 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11139.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.10995.aspx Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.10995.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11135.aspx Sun, 03 May 2009 10:09:59 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11135.aspx The energy interconnection agreement will be signed between Electro Peru and Eletrobrás, which will be responsible for the technical assistance on the construction of hydroelectric and teh operations of the electrical systems. The initial project has six hydroelectric plants in Peruvian territory; however, the main custumer will be the Brazilian market, according Belaúnde. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11111.aspx Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:12:52 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11111.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11097.aspx Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:29:14 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11097.aspx Brazilian concessionaires will carry out additional works on the Interoceanica Sur highway, which may result in further delays in the construction of the project - already close to $400 million over budget. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11088.aspx Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:51:07 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11088.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11011.aspx Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:19:31 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11011.aspx The Andean Development Corporation (CAF) has approved a US$300mn loan to Peru for additional works on the Interoceánica Sur highway, the financial entity reported in a release. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.10999.aspx Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:58:08 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.10999.aspx After reporting a truck loaded with mahogany illegally logged from the Amazon rainforest, Julio Gualberto García Agapito, a local authority, was gunned down by an illegal timber operator. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.10748.aspx Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.10748.aspx Marcos Chambilla Copari recalls arriving in the of village of San Lorenzo, in the southwestern Peruvian rainforest, in 1986, a refugee from flooding around Lake Titicaca in Peru’s southern highlands. “There was no road to get our products to market,” he said. “Everything rotted in the field.” http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.10646.aspx Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.10646.aspx The Trans-Oceanic Highway is one of the key projects of the Peru-Brazil-Bolivia axis of the IIRSA initiative. The project entails the construction and renovation of a total of 2603 kilometers of roads connecting the Amazonian state of Acre, Brazil with the port cities of Ilo, Matarani and San Juan de Marcona in the southern coast of Peru. The Brazilian section of the highway has been partially built. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.10028.aspx Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.10028.aspx Over 175 Peruvian citizens from all walks of life released a petition to the media regarding the construction of the Iñapari-Puerto Marítimo del Sur road. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.10017.aspx Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.10017.aspx