Peru

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Illustration on Peru by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

In this May 14, 2017 photo, people play ball inside of the venue that will host baseball, softball, archery and other sports during the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. Peru is organizing the largest sports event in its history, in the wake of the worst flooding in its history. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

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In this Monday, May 1, 2017 photo, soccer fans watch from an apartment balcony, which they rented for about $2 dollars, as their teams compete at the Little World Cup Porvenir street soccer championship in Lima, Peru. The annual ritual is Peru's most famous futsal. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

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In this Dec. 15, 2016 photo provided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. customs officials destroy a batch of tropical lumber at a landfill in Houston, after 1,770 metric tons of it was held at docks for more than a year on evidence it was illegally harvested in Peru. The amount in the seizure was enough to cover three football fields. The importers paid the storage and disposal fees as part of a no-fault administrative settlement. The wood's impoundment was a pyrrhic victory in Washington's efforts to get Peru to clean up its notoriously corrupt timber industry. (ICE via AP)

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FILE - This March 16, 2015 file photo shows where Ashaninka Indians live in hamlets, along the Putaya River, in Peru's Ucayali department. Ashaninka activist Edwin Chota, a strident foe of illegal logging, was among four men slain in September 2014, in a crime prosecutors blame on rogue loggers who invaded their community. The World Bank says 80 percent of Peru’s timber exports are illegal. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

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FILE - In this March 17, 2015 file photo, Ashaninka Indian men, identified by locals as illegal loggers, tie tree trunks together to move them along the Putaya River near the hamlet of Saweto, Peru. Ashaninka activist Edwin Chota, a vocal foe of illegal logging, and three other men were slain nearby in 2014. Prosecutors blame rogue lumberjacks but the lone suspect arrested was released in 2016. The World Bank says some 80 percent of Peru’s timber exports are illegally harvested. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

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In this photo taken in Feb. 20, 2017, a customs agent observes the arrival of trucks with wood from the Peruvian Amazon at the port of Callao, Peru. Inspections to detect criminal timber harvesting operations were scaled back following the halting of 1,770 metric tons at the Port of Houston in October 2015 in a rare blow against illegal logging. Prosecutions of illicit logging in Peru have barely advanced since, while officials who signed falsified logging permits for years remain on the job. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

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In this Feb. 1, 2017 photo, children ride bikes along the Torococha River near a municipal waste treatment plant with water that flows into Lake Titicaca, in Juliaca, in the Puno region of Peru. Many of the more than 400,000 tourists who visit Lake Titicaca from Peru each year stop first in Juliaca, a town that produces 200 tons of trash daily, much of it winding up in a river that has turned into a conveyor belt of waste heading into the lake. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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In this Jan. 29, 2017 photo, dancers perform during Virgin of Candelaria celebrations in downtown Puno, Peru. The annual celebration is a rare moment of national focus on an indigenous-dominated village culture in Peru. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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Peru program participant Quintina Huanca weaves fabric at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Peru's artists, cultures and famous foods are being featured in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival this year on the National Mall as the South American nation aims to boost tourism and cultural exchange. The festival reopens Wednesday, July, 1 and runs thru July 5. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

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Miss Universe contestants, from left, Desire Cordero, of Spain, Gabriela Berrios, of Puerto Rico, Jimena Vecco, of Peru, and Sally Jara Davalos, of Paraguay, pose for photos during a news conference for contestants from Latin America and Spain, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015 in Doral, Fla. The Miss Universe pageant will be held on Jan. 25, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

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England's Wayne Rooney, left, competes for the ball with Peru's Luis Advincula during the international friendly soccer match between England and Peru at Wembley Stadium in London, Friday, May 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

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England's Wayne Rooney, right, competes for the ball with Peru's Luis Advincula during the international friendly soccer match between England and Peru at Wembley Stadium in London, Friday, May 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

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England's Gary Cahill, number 5, scores a goal during the international friendly soccer match between England and Peru at Wembley Stadium in London, Friday, May 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

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England's Gary Cahill, second left, competes for the ball with Peru's Alexander Callens, center, and goalkeeper Raul Fernandez, second right, during the international friendly soccer match between England and Peru at Wembley Stadium in London, Friday, May 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

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England's Wayne Rooney shouts instructions to a teammate during the international friendly soccer match between England and Peru at Wembley Stadium in London, Friday, May 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)