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Food last! hungry Peruvians are taking to the streets while the government and foreign corporations feast on the spoils from the country's natural resources. Stephanie Boyd reports from Cuzco
With cries of 'Down with the cost of living!', thousands of angry marchers filed past crowds of startled tourists in Cuzco's main square. Over 500...
New Internationalist, 12/01/08 by Stephanie Boyd · More from publication -
A "stormy" career.(Your Dream Job!)(Brief Article)
Last July, we asked what you dream of doing as an adult. Thanks for your great responses! We wish we had room to print them all. Here are just a...
Highlights for Children, 01/01/05 by Boyd, Stephanie · More from publication -
Lies and videotape: Stephanie Boyd asks how corporate malefactors avoided justice in Peru when the evidence was right there for all to see on Peruvian reality TV - Bribery
THREE years ago a candid-camera extravaganza in Peru gave the public a never-before glimpse of corruption in action -- a prime time smoking-gun...
New Internationalist, 07/01/03 by Stephanie Boyd · More from publication -
Country Profile: Peru
Two centuries ago, Italian explorer Antonio Raimondi wrote that Peru is like a 'beggar seated on a bench of gold'. Today, nearly half the...
New Internationalist, 04/01/02 by Stephanie Boyd · More from publication -
Destination gridlock: car chaos is choking the urban South. But Stephanie Boyd discovers a ray of hope in Lima's hidden dreams of electrical public transit
A lonely row of concrete pillars stretches endlessly into the smog of a grimy Lima dawn in the middle of the busy Avenida Aviacion. They are...
New Internationalist, 01/01/01 by Stephanie Boyd · More from publication -
Shell game: transnationals everywhere are attempting to recast themselves as eco-friendly. But … sometimes it's not the way companies behave but the nature of the business itself which is at issue
They promised this time it would be different. `Health, safety, and environment' was their motto. A `green' Shell. A friendly Shell. And even after...
New Internationalist, 11/01/00 by Stephanie Boyd · More from publication -
A Question of Justice
Nothing, it seems, deters Mark and Rhoda Berenson. For nearly five years they've fought to free their daughter, Lori, from the squalid jail in Peru...
Newsweek, 09/11/00 by Arian Campo-Flores (With Stephanie Boyd in Lima) · More from publication -
Debtbusters: the sins of the parents are visited on their offspring. Stephanie Boyd reports on a children's war against debt in Peru
`People are growing tired of waiting for a conclusion to the never-ending economic crisis' `People are growing tired of waiting for a conclusion...
New Internationalist, 01/01/00 by Stephanie Boyd · More from publication -
Margarita Males Guallosamin: Stephanie Boyd visits a grassroots leader of Ecuador's community women's movement
IT is difficult to believe that Margarita Males Guallosamin was once a battered wife, unable to leave the house without her husband's permission,...
New Internationalist, 11/01/99 by Stephanie Boyd · More from publication -
It rains fishmeal: there's little celestial about the city Chimbote - except … its determined citizens will risk jail to `green' it …
TODAY, like every other day, six-year-old Jorge is up to his knees in a rushing muddy-red stream of industrial wastewater. With bare hands he feels...
New Internationalist, 06/01/99 by Stephanie Boyd · More from publication
