Sunday, April 13, 2008
TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS:
NAZCA FLIGHT TRAGEDY
Below: President Garcia with Dave Ferrell (Marlin magazine), Rafael Rey, Mercedes Araoz, and Ellen Peel (Billfish Foundation)
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- Aero News Network suggests a panicked tourist contributed to the fatal Nazca accident
- The Toronto Sun reports on Cameron Diaz' 2007 Peru trip being broadcast on MTV (8pm, April 14); and around the world except USA, Canada, UK on National Geographic (starting April 23)." Watch Preview
NAZCA FLIGHT TRAGEDY
- Pilot Says Panicked Tourist Contributed To Fatal Peru Accident (Aero News Network) "The pilot and sole survivor of April 9 downing of Cessna 206 in southern Peru says the accident was caused by a passenger who became frantic, and tugged on the pilot's safety harness. Carlos Bartra reportedly told Aero Ica one of the passengers panicked shortly after takeoff. ... Aero Ica theorized the female passenger Bartra identified may have become panicked by strong winds in the area."
- VIDEO: Peru's teachers fail test (BBC, Dan Collyns) "A staggering 95% of Peru's teachers have failed a government test to assess how qualified they are."
- Casitas del Colca Opens April 15 (Independent, UK) Orient Express's eagerly awaited Casitas del Colca opens in Arequipa this week, a luxury Andean retreat with 20 stone 'casitas'. The spa (opens May) offers indigenous treatments and Colca Canyon views.
- FLASHBACK: See 'Flying Condors' in Colca in Peruvia, July 23, 2004
- Getting To Knew Peru And Her People (Anniston Star, Georgia, David Boozer) travelogue to the Pacaya-Samiria Reserve
- Peru Lures Wealthy Tourists - Like Bill Gates & Cameron Diaz (Reuters) Machu Picchu now comes "complete with five-star hotels, world-class restaurants, luxury trains and an indoor oxygen system. In recent months, Cuzco has been visited by Bill Gates and Cameron Diaz."
- Cameron Diaz' 2007 Peru Trip on MTV (Toronto Sun) "Diaz's 2007 trek to Peru is featured in the first episode of 4REAL, tomorrow on MTV (8pm, April 14); around the world except USA, Canada, UK on National Geographic (starting April 23)." Watch Preview and 16 video segments including: Tetris Masters; People of Medicine; Hanging on the Train.
- Peru rescues seven miners trapped by landslide (Reuters, Jean Luis Arce) "It was not clear what minerals drew miners to the small, informal site."
- earlier today: Seven miners trapped at Peruvian site in the Andes (Reuters, Teresa Cespedes) "The rubble trapped miners on Friday at the Chuncanaqui site in the Ancash region, north of Lima."
- Mansfield University To Study Gamaliel Churata in Peru (Star-Gazette, New York and press release) "William Keeth (Mansfield University) has been accepted into the Andean Worlds Project, a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. I hope to greatly advance my research related to Gamaliel Churata and the early avant-garde writers in the Andes."
- VIDEO: Marc Anthony Concert in Lima (Associated Press)
- PHOTOGRAPH: An Honorable Mention (Cleveland Plain Dealer) Tisha Wade's photograph contrasted the shades of green on the banks of Lake Titicaca.
- A Fresh Look at the Apostle of Free Markets (New York Times, Peter Goodman) "Prominent Peruvian economist" Hernando de Soto is quoted in a profile of Milton Friedman: “Among the cognoscenti, he became the figure that represented the war against the overwhelming welfare state." But Mr. De Soto faulted Mr. Friedman for failing to temper his admonitions with an understanding of poverty and income inequality. “The problem with Milton Friedman and his fellow libertarians is they never took into consideration the importance of class. They ignored the way elites were able to distort the policies they prescribed for their own benefit.”
- FLASHBACK: De Soto Wins Friedman Prize (in Peruvia, April 2004)
- No More Marlins (Miami Herald) third story; "The president of Peru has signed a declaration to decommercialize marlin and sailfish in that country's waters, according to a news release from the Fort Lauderdale-based Billfish Foundation. The foundation said the decree means no commercial harvest nor sale will be allowed for the species and recreational fishing will be catch-and-release."
- Blue Fish Foundation Assists a Nation’s President Set a New Standard for Billfish Conservation (Bill Fish Foundation press release) See photograph of President Garcia with Foundation representatives at bottom of this post
- FLASHBACK: Peruvian barman recounts 32 days with 'Don Ernesto' Hemingway (Agence France Press, 2005) "Pedro Cordova remembers the 32 days legendary American author Ernest Hemingway spent fishing marlin and filming the silver-screen adaptation of his famous book "The Old Man and the Sea" in Cabo Blanco in northern Peru."
- FLASHBACK: Hemingway's Peruvian fishing expedition (Andean Currents, Aug. 1, 2007) "In 1953, club owner and Texas oilman Alfred Glassell snared a 14 feet, seven inches long 1,560 pound black marlin - the largest bony fish ever caught with a rod and reel. The record still stands today."
- Fort Bragg Soldiers Become US Citizens in Iraq (WRAL, North Carolina) re: includes Pfc. Zully L. Schaeffer
- Servicemembers in Iraq become U.S. citizens (Black Anthem, Jeremy Crisp) "Schaeffer's family is originally from Peru and they now reside in Allentown, Penn."
- "Deadly food riots have already broken out in Egypt, Indonesia, Cameroon, Peru and Haiti." (The Times, India)
- "In Peru, shortages of wheat flour are prompting the military to make bread with potato flour, a native crop." (Bay Area Indymedia, San Francisco)
- "Rising prices have hit poor countries like Haiti and Peru and even developed countries like Italy and the United States." (Associated Press, Julhas Alam)
- OPINION: Government by itself is not always the problem (Almogordo Daily News, New Mexico) "Or why not have severely limited government like Rwanda or Peru where only the richest can attend school or be protected by private police?"
- Letter: Interesting reactions to Clinton, Obama (Billings Gazette) "As a former educator of teens and a missionary of more than three decades in Peru, I'm really not surprised that huge numbers of our younger voters are enthusiastic about Barack Obama. Sister Catherine Nichol)"
- Pizarro and His Horses (Guardian, UK) "Chelsea's Claudio Pizarro, who owns 1,000 Guineas outsider Raymi Coya with trainer Marco Botti, was looking for new equine recruits at the Doncaster Breeze-Up Sale. The Peru striker can certainly afford to add his string of racehorses, he is reportedly paid £2.5million per annum."
Below: President Garcia with Dave Ferrell (Marlin magazine), Rafael Rey, Mercedes Araoz, and Ellen Peel (Billfish Foundation)
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