For the fifth consecutive year, The President Alan Garcia attended the ceremony of Thanksgiving for Peru, which on the occasion of Independence Day organized by the evangelical community in our country, which was also attended by the highest authorities of the Nation.


The Evangelical Fellowship announced the start of the ceremony which lasted an hour and five minutes, which gave President Alan Garcia declared July 30 "Day of Thanksgiving for Peru," prompting cheers from the audience.

LAN PERU TO LAUNCH LIMA-IGUAZU FLIGHTS

Lan is continuing its expansion within South America, with plans for new nonstop flights between two of the most popular destinations, the city of Lima, Peru, and Iguazu in Argentina, gateway to the breathtaking Iguazu Falls.

Subject to regulatory approvals, LAN Peru will introduce four weekly flights between Lima and Iguazu, commencing in January 2011.

A UNESCO World Heritage attraction, Iguazu Falls are located at the junction of the Iguazu and Parara Rivers, on the border of Argentina and Brazil.

Depending upon the water flow, Iguazu features as many as 270 waterfalls, the tallest of which is approximately 80 metres high – more than Niagara Falls on the US-Canada border.

Created by a geological fault some 200,000 years ago, the Iguazu Falls were first seen by Spanish explorers in 1541. Today, not only are they a major tourism drawcard for daylight and even full moon visits.

The President of the Republic, Alan Garcia, said today that it would be unfair that the royalties paid for natural gas exports are less than those paid for the consumption of oil in the domestic market.

"In the case of gas, now starting to export, we have proposed a renegotiation to help ensure that in any case the export of such proceeds to pay lower royalties than domestic consumption."

This would mean that the domestic market subsidizes foreign consumers which is unfair, stated in his Address to the Nation on Independence Day in Congress.

Note that Perupetro recently reported that formally initiated the Camisea consortium led by Pluspetrol, negotiations to establish the royalties to be applied to export natural gas from Camisea on 5 August.

In early July, the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) issued a supreme decree provides that in no case the royalty rate, expressed in dollars per million British Thermal Unit (BTU) of natural gas for export, may be less than the average value of the royalty of natural gas for the domestic market.

The rule states that Perupetro initiate all actions necessary or appropriate renegotiation with contractors to agree amendments to its license agreements, so that when the final destination of the natural gas export is strictly apply that criterion.

Machu Picchu continues to amaze

The archaeologist  Ruben Maqqe said that the ceramics are covered with stone slabs in a circular.

During the research work carried out in the citadel of Machu Picchu, a group of archaeologists from the National Institute of Culture (INC) found buried ceremonial offerings and would be of the Inca.

The archaeologist Ruben Maqqe stated that there are three objects ceramics or aryballos in miniature  covered with stone slabs (cairns) in a circular motion.

“This type of offering is for a ceremonial rite of payment to the earth or Pachamama. So far unique in its kind, “he added.