Peru takes its place in the sun

The country has had its tribulations, but it is prospering from international demand for minerals and energy and from the benefits of liberalization. The only shadow is the danger that discontent among the poor will grow faster than the redistribution of wealth. Dominic O’Neill reports from Lima.

PARIS, NEW YORK, Tokyo – Lima? Peru’s capital, says Euromoney’s host, has become the gastronomic hub of South America.

In a chic restaurant, Peruvian cuisine is served. Ingredients draw on one of the world’s richest fishing regions and an incredible inland biodiversity, with more than 3,000 types of potato, for example. The host is Oscar Jasaui, founder of Lima-based Pacific Credit Rating.

He describes how much confidence the country has gained since the hyperinflation, debt crises and left-wing insurgencies of the 1980s and 1990s.

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