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"What Is Behind the Political Turmoil in Peru?"

In Japan, schools have been steadily improving their earthquake preparedness for the last 20 years. Since 2002 the mission of making schools safer has taken off. National government funding has been provided when the budget was exceeded. After the earthquake in 2011 the schools also aimed to become tsunami safe. Japan is now helping to fund schools in other countries such as Peru to make them safer for the children.

It's really cool that the women referred to in the article (Dilma Rousseff, Michelle Bachelet, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and Keiko Fujimori) are taking their countries by storm. These countries are obviously very forward-thinking, and I admire them for it.

It's amazing how much power women can have in countries that Americans often think of as less developed than the US. These women are really taking control, when here in America we have yet to elect a female president or vice-president.

I want to echo Shalina's point. It's surprising that in the United States we still have not had a female President or Vice President, whereas countries that we often consider inferior to ours, such as Argentina and Peru, have already had female leaders. Though not mentioned in the article, another influential country that has already had a female leader is England- which first had a female Prime Minister over thirty years ago!

In protest at the lack of government assistance following an oil spill in the region, indigenous people in Peru's Amazon region detained a group of tourists from both Peru and abroad. Four decades ago, Petroperu, a state-owned company, constructed the 800 km Norperuano pipeline to move  oil from the Amazon region to Piura on the coast. Petroperu claims that the spill was caused by a purposeful 21 cm pipeline cut.