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Andrés Avelino Cáceres

...that during the War of the Pacific, General Andrés Avelino Cáceres (pictured) waged a two-year guerrilla campaign against Chilean occupation?
...that under the 2002 Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act the US eliminated tariffs on 6,300 products from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru?
...that there is evidence of Peruvian involvement in the abduction of a group of Montoneros in Lima as part of Operation Condor?
...that the town of Ollantaytambo, which dates back to the Inca Empire, has some of the oldest continuously occupied dwellings in South America?
...that water resources management in Peru has shifted from investing in irrigation development to a focus on river basin management?