I don't know how you figured out that I was just on my way to Yale to take the artifacts at gunpoint. Please don't go to New Haven. It's not sanitary.
From reading the article, I get the idea that:
a) Peru claims ownership of these artifacts
b) Yale refuses to acknowledge Peru's ownership, but also does not explicitly claim ownership themselves, and it attempting to negotiate favorable terms for partial repatriation of the artifacts
It's hard to escape the conclusion that Yale knows it doesn't own the artifacts, knows that Peru does, and just doesn't want to admit it because then Peru would have the right to have all the artifacts returned immediately, and Yale would lose its bargaining position.
Yale was lent the artifacts and now is trying to leverage its current possession into part ownership.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I got out of it. I'm not in favor of special third world breaks generally, I'm opposed to the BS debt relief and economic privileges, but in the case of their shiny trinkets that were shipped out of their counties before they had any government regulations to protect cultural heritage. Well, I think they have some right on their side there. And I note the left-wing hypocracy that won't give up these goodies even if they favor all other sorts of foreign aid give-aways. But of course this is all my opinion. I'm not forcing it on you, God forbid. And thanks for the warnig on Yale :)