One of the persons here indicate that ignorance is a major problem in Peru and that death penalty does not exist or that there is no life prison for seious crime. He is wrong. Therefore, he is ignorant. We do have life prison for serious crimes. For example, the former leader of the maoist terrorist group The Shining Path, Abimael Guzman, is in jail for life. We do have death penalty for those that betray Peru in case of war. Now you see where the ignorance come from? We do not have death penalty like in Texas, where everyone carries guns. Has death penalty lower crime rates in Texas or other places where you have this kind of penalty? Our problems have always come from abroad. We had 300 years of Spanish colonialism that came here to steal our resources and exploit the local people. Now, we are working hard to improve our quality of living without invading other countries or dropping atom bombs that kill thousands of civilians to win a war.

I say ignorance, people are ignorant about alot of things like in rural areas and Indian areas they are ignorant about hygiene and about history, civics, and many other things. People are ignorant about other people and are racist, indians toward all other groups, and whites toward indians and blacks, and the indians assume that all people who are not indian descent are tourists and foreigners. People also have a "poor mentality" and think that other countries have more money, and are better, you always hear people wanting to leave Peru and live abroad, especially in the u.s. They usually do not actually know anything about those places exept from t.v shows however. Crime is also somewhat of a problem but not near as much as it is in other latin american countries or in the u.s. Crime is becoming worse though, and it does not help that the government does not do anything about it, no death penalty, no life in prison, no punishment of any kind for anyone under age 18. In my opinion the Catholic "church" is one cause of ignorance and certainly it's the reason there is no death penalty here, you can see that catholic countries usually have higher crime rates. Another problem is that many people have to work 12 hours a day, and/or 6 days a week, some do not get paid much, maybe U.S.$400 per month. But in general, i think Peru has less serious problems than many countries, including the u.s. where i have also lived. The economy is very good here, and things are improving alot.

The biggest problem in Peru is the high consumption of cocaine and other drugs in the US and other countries that belong to the industrialized world. It is calculated that there are 40 million of drug-addicts only in the US. These consumers create a black market of cocaine and drug producers come to our country to prepare these "products" for the American consumers.

social dis-equality, although peru is a rich country, the economic resources don't reach the whole people the same, because as the old saying says, rich people get richer, poor people get...

but in the other hand, it depends on your self if you want to make money, if you want to make a better person of your self & help some else by sharing your money by making new business & haring people so they all make more money, if the money is your main goal

Clean water. When i went to peru we had to buy flavored water (bottle) or regular bottled water if ee wanted water. You CANNOT drink out of the tap

the huge gap between the rich and poor. lack of education, crime, teenage pregnancies, sanitary conditions.but to name a few

Cocaine. The blow. The toot for your noggin.

I am going to have a presentation about Peru.. and I need something that Peru is having trouble with to get the higher score..

I have googled.. and i couldn't find much, maybe it is just me that is terrible at searching.

So I'm asking you, what is a major problem, one problem or more, in Peru??

Thank you :)