But it is certainly time for Peru to make more of its potato patrimony.
Sadly for Peru, another batch of historic monuments has just been lost for ever.
The implications of the conflict in Bagua are ominous for Peru and for the stability of the region.
America's support for Peru's disgraced spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, is one unedifying example.
The sad reality is that both scenarios are grave and only time will tell what the future holds for Peru.
These measures fall well short of a radical new start for Peru.
Some of the growth comes from high world prices for Peru's minerals.
Ten candidates registered for Peru 's presidential election, due in April.
So it involves extra dollops of aid for Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, for development as well as enforcement, and smaller sums for Brazil, Panama and Venezuela.
With the support of then-president Alan Garcia and his successor, Alberto Fujimori, the ILD created a plan for Peru's poor to get title to land and businesses more quickly and efficiently.
The BBC's Mattia Cabitza in Lima says mining is a huge revenue earner for Peru, but that ongoing social and environmental conflicts are threatening to delay billions of dollars of investment.
In this regard, successful economic policies and the ratification of the FTA are providing incentives for Peru to become more competitive and less likely to succumb to authoritarianism and closed markets.
An observer mission from the Organisation of American States said that the campaign for Peru's presidential election was flawed, in part because of media bias, but noted that opposition candidates and voters were keen to take part.
It was always going to be a stretch for Mr Fujimori to govern Peru for another five years amid international opprobrium.
Turner says it's very difficult to provide hard-and-fast earnings estimates for Northern Peru in these early days.
That happened in Peru, for example, when the Peru-U.S. FTA -- we saw a major uptick of the number of SMEs that benefitted from this free trade agreement.
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Lima beans were named for the capital of Peru, where they have been growing for at least 7, 500 years.
Mari Solari, the Welsh owner of Las Pallas gift shop, has lived in Peru for 45 years.
Alberto Fujimori, who ruled Peru for a decade from 1990, is a fugitive in Japan.
Perhaps Mr Garcia's biggest advantage, though, is that he has been out of Peru for the past decade.
Following a town hall meeting with United Nations staff in Quito, the Secretary-General left Ecuador, travelling onward to Peru for an official visit.
Growth will also create conditions in Colombia and Peru for internal reforms concerning property rights, licensing procedures and other structural changes necessary for greater affluence.
The judge ordered her to stay in Peru for five years in order to serve out the remaining years of her sentence on conditional release.
The US embassy in Peru says around 100 US soldiers are doing humanitarian work in Peru for a few months but it has no plans for a base.
In some places growth is still strong: the latest year-on-year figures show an 8.3% rise in Peru for July, and 6.1% rise in Brazil for the second quarter.
Joran van der Sloot, who was the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of American Natalee Holloway in Aruba, goes on trial today in Peru for killing a Peruvian woman.
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