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...Interior Ministry rejects those numbers. "I doubt the scientific rigor of such an alarming rate," Fabricio Perez, general director for custody and rehabilitation at the ministry, told TIME. His colleague, deputy interior minister Ricardo Jimenez Dan, took aim at the director of the NGO, Humberto Prado, a former prison director under a previous government. "It would seem that the drama that our jails are living is the only way of life and sustenance that he has," the deputy minister said...
...greet individually, often with elaborate, personalized handshakes or fist pounds. These close relationships are cemented by daily meetings and twice-weekly group sessions. When any of the school's 150 students fail to show up in the morning, the AC makes a phone call to find out why. Freddie Perez, 17, compares this with the check-in procedure at the big high school he used to attend: "I'd swipe my ID at the beginning of school and then go back out the door," he says...
...Because the school runs on a trimester system, kids can rack up credits more quickly than they could at an ordinary high school--part of the plan to keep them moving briskly toward graduation day. The teachers favor a hands-on approach; there's very little chalk and talk. Perez says he used to hate U.S. history. "In my old school, they'd just give you a page number and tell you to answer questions in the text." At South Brooklyn, he says, "we'll study a court case for a week, and the second week...
...canning everything from octopus to tuna belly. Some of their top tins can cost as much as $54 for almost as many clams. However, just because the ingredients are canned doesn't mean the food isn't wonderfully creative and fresh. Brother-and-sister team Joana and Joaquim (Quim) Perez Sanz are the fifth generation to man the bar since it was founded in 1914. Elbow your way to a space at the narrow standing-room-only counter, then prepare for a preserved feast in miniature: maybe a roll topped with artisanal canned mussels and the sweetest diced tomatoes with...
...Daniel Perez Cueva, 21, was killed while in a French class, said his mother, Betty Cueva, who was reached by telephone at the youth's listed telephone number. Perez Cuevas was a student of international relations, according to the Virginia Tech Web site. His father, Flavio Perez, spoke of the death earlier to RPP radio in Peru. He lives in Peru and said he was trying to obtain a humanitarian visa from the U.S. consulate here. He is separated from Cueva, who said she had lived in the United States for six years. A spokesman at the U.S. Embassy...