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In this article, I offer an ethnographic and historical analysis of an alternative governmental project emerging in Ampiyacu basin, a highly biodiverse tropical area in Peruvian Amazonia. By considering the ways in which the Bora and Huitoto communities produce and deal with procedures and documentation that evoke the traditional structures of the State bureaucracy, I seek to understand the complex means by which these communities relate to the State's forms of authority in their attempts to self-regulate logging activities within their claimed territories. I argue that the governmental project advanced by these communities is interwoven in a dialectical relationship between authoritative claims formulated through State evocations and the contingency of everyday affects. While any form of regulation ultimately depends on the uncoordinated actions and partial agreements achieved among indigenous dwellers, such regulations continuously produce innovative ways of interpreting the State's forms of authority and experimenting (with) liberal democratic institutions. I show how different forms of biopolitical production take place in this process, and how this alternative governmental project is not reducible to either State's forms of authority or to the commonalities of affective immaterial labour. Rather, I seek to draw attention on the ways in which State authority is evoked, appropriated, transformed and disputed in the contingent flow of life in common in Ampiyacu basin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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I provide a new characterization of internal capital markets in an emerging economy using daily divisional data on all Peruvian fish-processing firms. A regression discontinuity model exploiting government production bans on regulated divisions (“fishmeal”) shows that the increased investment in the nonfishmeal divisions due to the bans is substantial (over 30% of the mean value), after controlling for productivity. The redeployment of financial capacity into nonfishmeal investments is particularly sharper when external financing is more costly and when firms are more closely monitored by creditors. The value-creating nature of this redeployment is supported by its positive effects on nonfishmeal exports. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two virus isolates, T1 and T2, causing necrotic spots on leaves and stems of pepper and tomato, respectively, were isolated in the La Joya valley, Arequipa, Peru, in 2010. These two isolates were inoculated to differential hosts for tospoviruses and showed differential fitness: T1 induced necrotic local lesions in Vigna unguiculata, whereas T2 produced only chlorotic spots. The complete nucleotide sequence of the small (S) RNA from T2 and 1863 bp of the S RNA from T1 were determined. The deduced N protein sequence showed high amino acid identity (97%) between the isolates, indicating that the T1 and T2 are isolates of the same virus. Sequence comparisons indicated that the amino acid sequence of the N protein shared 53.49-87.98% identity with known American tospoviruses. Phylogenetic analysis of both the NSs and N proteins revealed that this new tospovirus belongs to the American group. We conclude that this tospovirus should be considered a member of a new species. The name Pepper necrotic spot virus (PNSV) is proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]