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...Recruited by subcontracted agencies in their home countries, 290 workers arrived on 10-month H-2B visas (for non-professional, non-agricultural labor) from Bolivia, the Dominican Republic and Peru to work at the front desk, in maintenance, and as cleaning staff for Decatur's 15 luxury hotels throughout the New Orleans area. Decatur, founded in 1988 by Quinn and Edwin Palmer III, prides itself on turning abandoned historic buildings into boutique hotels. Decatur's lawyer Patricia LeBlanc told the Associated Press on Aug. 17 that the hotel firm sought to use the H-2B program for the first time...
...help connect the Latin American community, according to founders Joshua Kushner ’08, Daniel E. Kafie ’05, and Harvard Business School student Mario T. Schlosser. Even though membership is currently by invitation only, Vostu.com has accrued over 600 members—mostly from Argentina, Peru, and Mexico—since it went public. While it includes features, such as photo albums, event planners, and blogs, common to other social networking portals, Kafie, a Honduran native, thinks that Latin Americans will prefer the “closer relationships” and “tighter groups?...
...very long time," says lead researcher Linda Perry of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Which of course raises the question: Just how spicy did they like it? In Scoville Heat Units-a measure of capsaicinoids, the chemicals that give food "heat"-the picante peppers of prehistoric Peru pale in comparison with today's hottest chilies...
...consider that aim met, given the high turnout and rapt silence during the film, “Rx For Survival: A Global Health Challenge.” Narrated by Brad Pitt, the documentary chronicles health challenges from around the world. From clips of a girl named Raquel in Peru, who lives with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis and will not kiss her son for fear of infecting him, to Mechai in Thailand, who single-handedly distributes condoms in brothels across the country to slow the progression of AIDS, making condom balloons along the way. The film solicited both tears...
Burger, the Yale anthropology professor who has led excavations in Peru for more than 20 years, once found himself knocking down the walls of Richard’s home...