Word: peru
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...will lead a study group on Iraq’s current state of affairs, security issues, and social, political, and economic challenges. And Peru’s former ambassador to the U.S. Ricardo A. Luna will conduct a group on the five Andean countries—Bolivia, Ecuador, Columbia, Peru, and Venezuela. In addition, former Boston Globe national editor Kenneth J. Cooper will host a study group entitled “Black and Brown Together Forever? Black Latino Coalition Politics in the 21st century.” And former 9/11 Commission spokesman Alvin S. Felzenberg will examine...
Former and current Harvard students make up 14 of the 30 recipients of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships For New Americans, which award funding for two years of graduate study in the United States to immigrants or children of immigrants.The 2006 fellows come from countries as diverse as Peru, Taiwan, Greece, Cuba, and Russia, and study a wide spectrum of topics ranging from bioengineering to government to English.These fellows are members of a group known as “New Americans,” a demographic that Warren Ilchman, director of the Soros Fellowships, characterizes as representing...
...Peru, April...
...Peru provided the region's most stunning reaction to the Evo Morales victory in Bolivia: The candidate whose politics most resembles that of Morales (and Chavez) is Ollanta Humala, a retired lieutenant colonel and an admirer of Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles de Gaulle. Before the Bolivian elections, Humala had been polling about 12%; immediately after, he was at 22%, a statistical tie with the candidate of the center-right ruling party, Lourdes Flores Nano. While denying ties to Chavez for most of the race, Humala did an about-face on Jan. 3, traveling to Caracas and taking a front...
...however, still has a long road to the presidency. First he would have to win first or second place in the April 9 vote; and then win a runoff on May 7. In the meantime, his personal and family history may dog him. He led a mini-uprising against Peru's now exiled president Alberto Fujimori in 2000, just before his government collapsed. Humala's younger brother is now in prison awaiting trial for leading his own uprising a year ago in a tiny Andean backwater town. And Humala's eldest brother, Ulises, has officially filed to run for president...