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    Major quake rocks northern Peru, one dead  Sep 27, 2005
    "We have one dead and three injured. The victim is a man whose house fell on top of him," Ramiro Pozzi, a police spokesman in the town of Lamas, some 25km from Tarapoto, the biggest town in the area, told Reuters ... A spokesman for the San Martin regional police said he had no immediate reports of dead or injured in the towns of Moyobamba, Rioja or Tarapoto. (Lima Post, Peru)

    New Report Links Reputed Kingpin to Murder  Dec 12, 2004
    But he too was recently released on grounds that he had been held in custody too long without trial after his case was transferred from Lima in June to a court in the Peruvian jungle town of Tarapoto, a Peruvian law enforcement official said. Copyright. (Newsday -- World)

    Entrepreneur Rolls Premium Peru Cigars for Export  Jun 5, 2004
    Established in 1997 in Tarapoto, northern Peru, by Italian entrepreneur Nicola Felice, Tabacalera del Oriente produced just 300,000 hand-rolled cigars last year, compared with Cuba's 300 million a year, 90 million of which are for export. But the Peruvian company is trading on its novelty value and making inroads into the United States via a partner in Miami. (Reuters -- Politics)

    Preservation vs. profit  Apr 12, 2004
    TARAPOTO, Peru -- The news stunned Lily Rodriguez ... Accompanied by an official from the Interior Ministry, Rodriguez and Moskovits sat down with farmers and loggers in early 2001 at Tarapoto, an old jungle city near the northern tip of the Cordillera Azul. (FOX59, IN)




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