In a wave of burglaries rural churches in Peru and Bolivia are being stripped of irreplaceable colonial art including canvases and ornaments. According to an Associated Press story reported in the Boston Globe, since 2009 38 thefts of 447 objects have been reported in Bolivia. There have been 30 thefts reported in Peru since 2012. The Rev. Francisco Dubert decried the thefts saying, ‘‘These churches are being robbed because terrible people want to own beautiful things.’’ The market for stolen art is mostly in Europe and the United States with Santa Fe New Mexico a prime destination for Latin American art according to Donna Yates, a University of Glasgow archaeologist.
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