Peru powered by Microsoft
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Peru's President Alejandro Toledo will travel to Seattle this weekend for talks with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates during which he will sign accords to support his Huascaran Internet-for-schools project, a government spokesman said. Toledo, who announced a Cabinet overhaul on Friday to try to revive his flagging government, will travel to Seattle on Sunday and meet Gates on Monday, the spokesman said. Toledo will fly home on Tuesday. Officials say Plan Huascaran has provided about 100 schools in Peru with Internet service and teaching tools. The government aims to increase that number to 5,000 schools by the end of Toledo's term in 2006.