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...Pocahontas had a very mad affair." In reality, Jamestown was a hardheaded business proposition. The 104 English settlers who stayed when the ships went home--gentlemen, soldiers, privateers, artisans, laborers, boys (no women yet)--were late entrants in the New World sweepstakes. Spain had conquered Mexico by 1521, Peru by 1534. The mines disgorged silver, and by the end of the 16th century, Mexico City and Lima had universities, printing presses and tens of thousands of inhabitants. The Portuguese were harvesting dyewood in Brazil, and the French were trading for furs in Canada. Even the somewhat overlooked Chesapeake had seen...
...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 in Lima said the student's father "will receive...
...into the bottom of her shoes, she boarded the airplane.But after she landed, Bartholet discovered over her three-month stay that many laws designed to help children were actually hurting them. Today, her first adopted son, Christopher, is 21 years old. But the laws handicapping the adoption process in Peru remain in place.That’s why Bartholet, who is now the Wasserstein public interest professor of law, created the Harvard Law School Child Advocacy Program (CAP), tailored to draw students to less glamorous—or lucrative—legal niches. Though only three years old, the program...
...flavoring," says Luis Cutipa, Bolivian Director of Coca Industrialization, explaining that until 2003, Illinois-based Stepan Chemicals, which imports coca leaf under license from the U.S. Department of Justice and is reported to supply a narcotic-free derivative to Coca-Cola, bought leaves from Bolivia. Now, it buys from Peru. (The Peruvian government disclosed in 2005 that 115 tons of leaves are sent annually to Stepan...
Sempra dropped its stakes in Argentina, and there's been trouble in Bolivia and Peru...