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Malpartida, known as "Dynamite" to her fans, is the World Boxing Association's female super featherweight champion. On June 20, she successfully defended her world title in Lima against a Brazilian opponent, Halana dos Santos. She drew a packed house for the bout, which was a feat of its own. The tickets were costly in a country where the monthly minimum wage is around $200 and the venue seemed better suited for a circus than an international title fight as vendors hawked caramel apples and cotton candy instead of beer and pretzels. TV ratings, however, define the story in immense...
According to the official count, 32 people - 23 police officers and nine protesters - were killed June 5 when long-running demonstrations by indigenous people against oil development spun out of control. Hundreds more were injured and arrested. The violence was unleashed when police officers received word from Lima, the capital, to remove the protesters who were blocking a highway and the nearby pumping station on the northern pipeline. The officers moved in with tear gas and automatic weapons. The protesters were mainly armed with spears, but some had guns. Fighting along the tragically named Devil's Curve took 20 lives...
Indigenous leaders say they too have no intentions of quitting the fight. However, they are going to have to move forward without Alberto Pizango, the president of their umbrella group, AIDESEP, who requested political asylum June 8 at the Nicaraguan Embassy in Lima after the government ordered his arrest...
Murphy sets up the comedy by giving this big idea a humble setting: the down-and-out glee club of William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. The school's once champion show choir has fallen on hard times, overshadowed by the competitive-cheerleading squad (whose coach is played with Pattonesque swagger by Jane Lynch). Restless Spanish teacher Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) volunteers to bring back the chorus of misfits, like Charlie Brown nursing the most pathetic Christmas tree...
Alberto Fujimori was nothing if not hands-on during his decade as President of Peru. In January 1997, in the midst of the hostage ordeal at the Japanese embassy in Lima that dragged on for four months, "Fuji," as Peruvians called him, took TIME on a ride around the capital in his Toyota 4x4. His aim was to demonstrate that he, not the Tupac Amaru guerrillas who were holding 72 civilians (including Fujimori's brother) at the embassy residence, who enjoyed the support of the country's poor. At one shantytown he rolled down his window and basked...