Natives

En Global Express Tours el 2009.06.22

By: Johan van Ginhoven June 15 . ? The Peruvian Government and some representatives of the Amazonian native communities started on Monday a dialogue to search a way to stop strong protests by the natives, who claim the repeal of laws that affect their territories. In a first approach, after confrontations that left 34 dead over a week ago, the Prime Minister, Yehude Simon, said the meeting in a rainforest area (Junin, 350 km. east of Lima) should conclude in a solution of the crisis. He told reporters...

En Historia, history el 2009.03.01

Like those before him, Martin Frobisher was in earnest to find the northwest passage, in whose existence all navigators then fully believed. Like Columbus, he vainly sought friends to aid him. At last, after he had waited fifteen years in vain, Dudley, the Earl of Warwick, helped him to an outfit. His little fleet embraced the Gabriel, of thirty-five tons, the Michael of thirty, and a pinnace of ten. As it swept to sea past Greenwich, the Queen waved her hand in token of good-will. Sailing northward...