Monday, October 08, 2007
Peruvia updates will be slower than usual this week.
Link suggestions or corrections and questions can be sent to peruvia @ gmail.com.
IMMIGRATION:
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Link suggestions or corrections and questions can be sent to peruvia @ gmail.com.
IMMIGRATION:
- 'Children Caught In The Immigration Crossfire' (USA Today, Kathy Kiely) Fiorella Maza on A1 "The 2006 South Miami Senior High graduate and her parents now live in her grandmother's house in Lima, Peru — more than 2,600 miles from the place she had called home since she was 2. She's searching for language classes 'because my Spanish is really bad,' and trying to adjust to life in a land where, she says, 'I feel like an outcast'." Ms. Maza was profiled in August by the Miami Herald
- 'Marchers Want Reprieve For The Undocumented' (The Record, New Jersey, Michael J. Feeney)
- OPINION: 'We Should Help Colombia' (Miami Herald, Sen. Richard Lugar)
- EDITORIAL: 'Democrats Talk Sense To Democrats' (New York Times editorial) "Congress should move quickly to pass the Peru deal, for all the reasons in the Democrats’ sensible letter — and to show Colombia what it’s missing."
- 'US Politicians Wrapped In Protectionist Flag' (Globe and Mail, Barrie McKenna) "Congress appears poised to pass two relatively minor bilateral free-trade deals, with Peru and Panama."
- 'Senate Finance Committee Approves US-Peru FTA' (International Dairy Food Association, press release)
- 'Date Is Set For Nobel Literature Prize' (Agence France Press) "Prolific Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa is also put forward by some, but his biggest supporter within the Swedish Academy has boycotted the assembly's meetings for several years because of a dispute with his colleagues." (See Peruvia's 'VLl's Nobel?', Oct 4, 2004; and 'No Nobel', Oct 11, 2001)
- 'Peru Officials Ask For More Military Aid' (UPI)
- 'APEM Supports Market Access For Mango Growers/Exporters From Peru' (Association of Mango Growers, Jahir Lombana)
- 'DanPer Trujillo SAC Focuses On High Quality Asparagus Production' (Fresh Plaza, Jahir Lombana)
- 'HSBC Wants Peru Too' (Financial Post, Canada, Duncan Mavin) "HSBC will open 10 branches in the Peruvian capital of Lima over the next two months, potentially bringing the world's most international bank into direct competition with the Bank of Nova Scotia in the South American country."
- 'BPZ Energy Says Final Tests Are In' (Rig Zone)
- 'In Latin America, History Goes On Trial' (Wall Street Journal, Joel Millman) article focuses on Suriname; "Last month, Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori was extradited from Chile to face trial for human-rights violations and corruption charges dating to the 1990s."
- 'In Baltimore, Breathing New Life Into Verdi's La Forza' (Washington Post) "Set in mid-18th-century Italy and Spain, the story -- human helplessness in confronting destiny -- boils down to an ill-fated and mismatched pair of lovers, the Italian noblewoman Leonora and the "half-breed" Peruvian Inca Don Alvaro; her father, irreconcilably opposing the union of his daughter with Alvaro, dies in a fortuitous shooting, incurring revenge by Leonora's brother, Don Carlo."
- Fredy P. Canales Hispanic Man of Year (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- 'Rafting The Cotahuasi: One Woman's Whitewater Adventure' (Go Nomad, Jess Tuerk) "The Cotahuasi is to river-enthusiasts what Everest is to adventure climbers -- a Holy Grail of superlative expeditions."
- 'Presbyterians Seek Support Across US' (Courier-Journal, Kentucky, Peter Smith) "Jacob Goad, 24, began working in January in the Peruvian city of La Oroya, advocating for children and others exposed to lead and other pollution from an industrial plant. He also helped with relief efforts after Peru's massive earthquake this year."
- 'Animal Blessed At Church' (WIFR, Illinois) "Erik Hinojosa told AP Television that Saint Francis had performed "many miracles" for her including saving her dog."
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