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Adventure Rider All-in-one-stop info for riding the South American country Despite the coronavirus pandemic, some travelers are still on the road, and others are planning to head out as soon as COVID-19 has cleared up. If you’re currently planning a trip to South America, there’s a new book on the market that might be a help. It’s titled Jeff & Alan’s Guide To Motorcycle Travel In Colombia. That title lays out the whole premise of the book, with no faffing about. The book is the handiwo...

MEDELLIN, Colombia - February 8, 2021 - ( Newswire.com ) The first of its kind, motorcyclists guide to travel in Colombia: ” Jeff & Alan’s Guide To Motorcycle Travel In Colombia ” just released. Even though other travel guides exist for Colombia and South America, this is the very first one that focuses specifically on adventure motorcycle travel. The book was written to meet the demand for a quality motorcycle travel guide created by Colombias recent tourist boom. Colombia has become ...

Nearly eight months after the wiretaps were installed, the conversations on the phones suddenly changed. The talk of logging, laundering and shipping illegal wood stopped. Instead the voices talked of destroying evidence and ditching phones.

Class cancelled: how Covid school closures blocked routes out of poverty Peter Beaumont © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Andreea Alexandru/AP In the coffee-farming communities of the Peruvian Amazon, the classroom is a route out of poverty. Gabriela was studying civil engineering in a city an hour and a half from home when the Covid-19 pandemic struck. The 18-year-old, who is one of thousands of young people tracked since 2002 as part of the Young Lives project led by t...

The Amazon lost an area of primary forest larger than Israel in 2020, new analysis finds by Morgan Erickson-Davis on 28 January 2021 The Amazon basin lost more than 2 million hectares of primary forest cover in 2020, according to a new report by the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP). This number is higher than the area lost in 2019 and the authors say it may be an underestimation. Brazil lost the most primary forest, with Bolivia experiencing high levels of fire-related deforestat...

(Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping on Monday called on the world to strengthen macroeconomic policy coordination and bolster the role of the G20 in global economic governance as he pointed to a “rather shaky” recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking at a virtual meeting of the World Economic Forum – a gathering usually held in a Swiss ski resort – Xi said the global economic outlook remained uncertain and public health emergencies “may very well recur” in future. X...

Hytera Integrates Pucallpas Public Safety Communications in Peru Source: The Critical Communications Review | Gert Jan Wolf editor The project, developed by Hytera Peru, is an initiative to integrate citizen security with a convergent platform that unites critical communications, CCTV and the emergency services of the public. Hytera complet...

Tourists stranded after Peru slams borders shut over virus worries MalaysiaNow 27/1/2021 © Provided by MalaysiaNow Hundreds of foreigners are trapped in Peru after it sealed its borders on Monday in an attempt to stop the spread of Covid-19. Foreign tourists who were visiting the country’s Inca ruins and Amazon rainforest were given little warning they should leave. Equally, Peruvians abroad had no time to get home before the closures. Peru’s defence ministry had announced it would comp...

Meet a Family Who Spent 9 Months Traveling the Globe, Pre-Plague The Wheelan family struck a pose on the Bolivian salt flats.Credit...via Charles Wheelan Buy Book ▾ By Amity Gaige A Family Gap Year By Charles Wheelan I go through phases: Sometimes I feel as if I’m doing OK as a parent, other times I feel like a henchwoman in one long, slow sociocultural crime. When my 15-year-old son screams for help from his counterterrorism team while shooting his way around the world in Rainbow Six Siege...

Monday, 25 Jan 2021 12:43 PM MYT Credit Suisse said it had decided to phase out financing for oil exports from the Ecuadorean and Peruvian Amazon after completing existing commitments. — Reuters pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. ZURICH, Jan 25 — Credit Suisse, Dutch lender ING and France’s BNP Paribas have decided to stop financing the trade in crude oil from Ecuador, the banks said today, following pressure from campaigners aiming to p...