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A Magical Journey to the Land of the Incas

The Sacred City of Macchu Picchu
& the Amazon Rainforest
June 16 -30, 2007

Elizabeth Kramer invites you to join her for an exciting trip to Peru.  We will arrive to the City of Viceroys, Lima, and from there we will fly to Cuzco where we will be staying at a beautiful spiritual retreat center called Poqen Kanchay.  This is the home of our host & teacher in shamanic studies and ceremony Dr. Theo Paredes. 

From Cuzco we will travel to Tres Cruces de Oro which lies at the border of the Amazon Rainforest.  In this magical place we will witness the rising of the sun during the summer solstice and Don Theo will teach us about perception of other realities as well as how to connect to the energies of this sacred area.

U.S. Meddling in Peruvian Presidential Race?

U.S. Meddling in Peruvian Presidential Race?

By Jeremy Bigwood
http://www.upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/227/1/
upsidedown world.com
March 15, 2006

Something smells funny about the recent denunciation of maverick Peruvian presidential candidate Ollanta Humala for alleged human rights violations. Before the accusations, Humala was riding high as the leading candidate in Peru's presidential elections. Investigations illustrate that Humala's accusers are subsidized by the US Government funded Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Washington may be interfering in this election to protect its own interests.

IRAQ: Veteran Peruvian Soldiers and Police Recruited for Iraq by U.S. Contractors

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12725

The complaints by the families of the new private security recruits forced the Peruvian Foreign Ministry to act. Ambassador Jorge Lázaro, in charge of Offices of Peruvian Communities Abroad, announced that he had launched an investigation to determine whether the contracts violated the rights of the new recruits. by Ángel Páez, Inter Press Service News Agency October 31st, 2005

LIMA, Oct 31 - "Piraña", a former Peruvian army sergeant who fought the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) Maoist guerrillas in the jungles of Peru in the 1990s, decided at the last minute not to travel to Iraq with around 200 former members of the military and police recruited by the U.S.-based private security firm Triple Canopy. "My mom convinced me not to go," Piraña told IPS on condition of anonymity. "She told me she would prefer to see me poor but alive rather than dead for a handful of dollars." Complaints from the families of former soldiers and police officers hired to work as security personnel in Iraq by private military contractors triggered a scandal in Peru.