Peru Decides to Sue

Photo: Yale Peabody Museum

Tonight, it's the Republicans' turn, in the CNN/YouTube Debate, to face questions submitted in video form by questioners on the Internet. Some of them may quite possibly not even be Ron Paul supporters. The least traditionally journalistic aspect of the Democrats' CNN/YouTube debate in July was that the questions often came from questioners with unvarnished opinions and admitted vested interests in the issues; this was also the best aspect of that debate. Watch the submitted video above and see--if you read really really closely between the lines--what the questioner thinks about the war on drugs.

Yale that is.  Yale Daily News reporter Paul Needham, who has been following the story, posted the news today on his paper’s website that last Friday, lawyers representing the government of Peru filed suit in Washington, D.C. district court to demand that Yale return all of the artifacts it holds from the Inca settlement of Macchu Pichu. Those are the pieces excavated early in the 20th century by the Yale explorer Hiram Bingham and deposited by him with the university.

Last year it appeared that Yale and Peru were close to finalizing an agreement whereby Yale would return most of the items to Peru and assist with  a museum to display them near Macchu Pichu. But that agreement may have fallen victim to complexities of Peru’s internal politics.

The Yale counsel general still hopes that both sides can reach “a creative, constructive resolution”.