Friday, September 07, 2007
TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS:
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs released their 'Earthquake OCHA Situation Report No. 14' which includes updates on shelter, the impact on the environment as well as a review of donors.
In our section on arts and literature, two books are cited (Ruthann Lum McCunn's God of Luck; and Kim MacQuarrie's The Last Days of the Incas) and a faux documentary, La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo, premieres in the USA. (Upcoming screenings in Vancouver, October 8 and 10.)
GENERAL NEWS:
APEC:
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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs released their 'Earthquake OCHA Situation Report No. 14' which includes updates on shelter, the impact on the environment as well as a review of donors.
In our section on arts and literature, two books are cited (Ruthann Lum McCunn's God of Luck; and Kim MacQuarrie's The Last Days of the Incas) and a faux documentary, La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo, premieres in the USA. (Upcoming screenings in Vancouver, October 8 and 10.)
GENERAL NEWS:
- 'Taking on the Tomb Robbers' (The Economist) "Unfortunately Peru's ancient archaeological and historical sites also attract traffickers in antiquities. Each year artefacts worth perhaps $18m are stolen and smuggled abroad."
- 'Sergei Lavrov to Visit Peru September 11' (Novosti, Russia) re: Russia's Foreign Minister
- 'Copies of Newspaper Publicly Burned in City Square' (Reporters Without Borders) "The mayor of Wari, Ancash, Edwars Vizcarra Zorilla, and residents on 4 September torched copies of La Primera, edited by Robin Hood Ipanaqué Hidalgo."
- 'Earthquake OCHA Situation Report No. 14' (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)
- DHL Relief Efforts Completes Mission' (DHL press release)
- 'Peru's Earthquake Rebuilding Aims to Create Economic Hub' (Dow Jones, Robert Kozak)
- ''IMF Sees Limited Impact On Peru's Economic Growth From Quake' (Dow Jones, Elizabeth Price)
- 'IOM distributes emergency supplies to earthquake victims' (International Organization for Migration)
- 'Quake: Providing Food, Shelter, Medical Supplies' (Medical Teams International)
- 'Peru Gets Emergency Telecommunications Devices' (United Nations) "50 satellite terminals in remote areas of southern Peru."
- 'One-an Mission in Peru" (Owen Sound Sun Times, Scott Dunn) re: Tom Stanfield
- 'Peru Quake Chiropractic Commentary' (Planet Chiropractic, Michel Sonheimer)
- 'Earthquake Peru Chiropracters on the Scene' (Planet Chiropractic, Michael Doraush)
- 'Dan Relives 'Tough' Peru Quake Rescue' (Salisbury Journal, Jill Harding, UK) re: firefighter Dan Cooke
- 'Reading to Benefit Peru Earthquake Relief' (Sonoma News, California) re: Ruthanne Lum McCunn, author of "God of Luck"; "Ah Lung is separated from his wife, Bo See, at the peak of the 19th-century Chinese slave trade. He is kidnapped and shipped to the deadly guano mines off the coast of Peru."
- '4 St. George Residents Travel to Peru To Help Quake Victims' (Spectrum and Daily News)
APEC:
- ABC News Suggests Bush to Travel To Lima in November (ABC, Ann Compton, USA)
- Garcia Meets One-on-One With Canada PM (Globe and Mail, Gloria Galloway) re: one of three bilateral meetings in Sydney
- 'Leaders too Tied Up to Meet Their Expatriate Nationas' (Sydney Morning Herald, Andrew West) "Sydney's small Peruvian community will miss out on meeting the President, Alan Garcia."
- 'China, Peru Launch FTA Talks' (Xinhua News Agency) "Chinese President Hu Jintao met with Peruvian President Alan Garcia on Friday and the two leaders agreed to launch bilateral free trade area negotiations."
- 'Peru's Central Bank Unexpectedly Raises Rate to 5%' (Bloomberg, Alex Emery) "a preventive nature"
- earlier: 'Peru Central bank May Hold Rate Unchanged' (Bloomberg, Alex Emery)
- 'Peru Central Bank Increases Reference Rate To 5% From 4.75%' (Dow Jones)
- 'Peru's Tax Collections Climb 22% in August' (Dow Jones, Robert Kozak and Reuters)
- 'Emerging Markets Weather the Financial Storm' (Financial Times, Joanna Chung) Gunter Heiland, JPMorgan Asset Management, says: "Russia is one of the safest credits out there at the moment, partly supported by the windfall from oil, while Brazil and Peru are also holding up well."
- IMF Managing Director Set For Peru (International Monetary Fund interview) "Later this month, on September 19 and 20, the Managing Director and President Garcia will inaugurate a seminar on macroeconomics and equity in Lima. ... The question is, 'Has the IMF estimated the impact in the Peruvian economy of the August 15 earthquake?' the preliminary estimates are that the impact is likely to be relatively small, in the range of 0.3 to 0.5 %."
- 'Can China Change Latin America' (OECD Observer, Javier Santiso)
- 'APESEG Sees Premiums Growing 8% to US$1.2 Billion This Year' (BNAmericas)
- 'BPZ Energy Announces Successful Oil Test' (BPZ Energy press release; Rigzone)
- 'Peru May Determine Sanctions After Auditing Process on Telcos' (Cellular News)
- 'Siemens Suspected of Bribing ex-IEC Director' (Haaretz, Guy Leshem, Israel) "Dan Cohen, a former district court judge, is suspected of receiving the bribe when serving as the chairman of the IEC board's assets committee. Cohen is now living in Peru, a country without an extradition treaty with Israel."
- 'New Dimension Resources Cenepa Project Update' (New Dimension Resources press release)
- 'Cameco Eyes Peru Assets' (Reuters)
- APEC: 'Text of Bush Remarks in Australia' (White House) "Recently we concluded free trade agreements with two more APEC countries, South Korea and Peru. The United States Congress needs to ratify these trade agreements."
- 'Free Trade in Claptrap' (The Australian, Greg Sheridan) "The US has concluded free trade deals with minnows such as Peru, which are economically negligible but strategically significant to the US, and cannot get even that passed by Congress."
- 'Indie Filmaker Jim Finn Brings Peru's Female Guerrillas to Albuquerque' (Albuquerque Tribune, J.A. Montalbano) re: La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo; premieres at Guild Cinema; faux documentary re-enacts one day at Canto Grande prison; see also NY Underground Film Festival synopsis; In Spanish: Caretas
- 'People: Mario Vargas Llosa' (Associated Press) "Awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of La Rioja"
- 'Mario Vargas Llosa on Why Reading is an Essential Part of Being A Citizen' (Courrier Int'l, Fance) In Spanish: Read full interview in El Pais with Fietta Jarque
- 'Taking on the Tomb Robbers' (The Economist) "Unfortunately Peru's ancient archaeological and historical sites also attract traffickers in antiquities. Each year artefacts worth perhaps $18m are stolen and smuggled abroad."
- 'Musicians for Harmony' (New York Times) re: the Peruvian-Jewish-Chinese composer Gabriela Lena Frank
- ' 'Incas' Author Takes Issue with Reivew, Reviewer Responds' (opinion, San Francisco Chronicle) re: The Last Days of the Incas
- 'Reading to Benefit Peru Earthquake Relief' (Sonoma News, California) re: Ruthanne Lum McCunn, author of "God of Luck"; "Ah Lung is separated from his wife, Bo See, at the peak of the 19th-century Chinese slave trade. He is kidnapped and shipped to the deadly guano mines off the coast of Peru."
- 'Who Will Become Opera's New Top Tenor?' (Wall Street Journal, Lauren A.E. Schuker) re: Juan Diego Flórez; In Spanish: EFE and RPP review Pavoratti/Flórez relationship
- 'Exhibition Reveals Golden Riches of Ancient Peru' (press release, Canada) 'Secret Riches: Ancient Peru Unearthed' at Canadian Museum of Civilization, starting December 14
- Peru Negro in Washington State (Herald, Washington) March 29, 2008
- 'Engaged Pair Faces Uncertain Future' (Oxford Press, Matt Cunningham, Ohio) "No matter what, we're going to be together, whether here or in Peru."
- 'Illegal Residents Are Criminals' (opinion, Tracy Press, Sharon Franceschi, California)
- '51 Newest Citizens Urged to 'Remember Why You Came' (Union Leader, Faith Swymer, New Hampshire)
- Sofia Mulanovich in Semi-Finals in Rip Curl Girls Festival (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Pres Bachelet Discusses Free Trade in Australia (MercoPress) "Chile’s conservative daily La Tercera reported Thursday that the Supreme Court’s highly anticipated verdict on the Fujimori extradition case was delayed so not to disturb the upcoming bilateral talks between Chile and Peru at the APEC meeting, where officials from both countries are set to meet Saturday."
- 'Bar to Chile Cort: Send Fujimori Home' (Prensa Latina, Cuba) re: Lima Bar Association
- 'Local Man Designs Green Toilets for Urban Poor' (Chatham Daily News, Heather Travis, Canada) " Joseph Sauve rolled up his sleeves and travelled to Peru to get elbow deep in architectural designs for sanitation systems."
- 'Police Seek Man in Fight That Broke Teen's Jaw' (Daily Herald, Josh Stockinger) Paulo Gonzales, says that "Jackson had called him "gay" and made "racist" remarks about his Peruvian heritage until Gonzales said he had enough -- and was decked in the face for it."
- 'One-an Mission in Peru" (Owen Sound Sun Times, Scott Dunn) re: Tom Stanfield
- 'Lemelson Foundation Honoring Mentoring Program in Cusco, Cajamarca, Puno (Lemelson Foundation press release)
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