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...community oversee next month's election, bless the winner and then broker a deal to restore Zelaya afterward, until his term ends Jan. 27. Diplomats close to the Honduras talks say that when Washington realized it could only get backing for the idea from a handful of countries like Peru and the Bahamas (not from major hemispheric governments like Brazil and Mexico, nor even staunch U.S. ally Colombia), it decided to turn the screws on Micheletti and make it plain that the coup government and its successor would be out in the global cold if Michelletti didn't relent...
From the deserts of Peru to the peaks of Tibet, Munoz pedaled through some of the most beautiful scenery in the world, as well as some of the planet’s most remote locations. Along the way, he accumulated memorable experiences like being incessantly stared at in Southern India or learning how to order Chinese food through sign language...
Interbank chairman Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor, one of the drivers of the repatriation strategy, has had two homecomings of his own. His father, also named Carlos, was once Peru's central banker but was forced to leave the country following a military coup in October 1968. "He went from being Peru's central banker to an assistant branch manager at an office in San Francisco," says Rodriguez-Pastor, who was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Dartmouth. His father rose through the ranks of Wells Fargo and returned to Peru as Finance Minister...
Tory, like others, was attracted by the financial options Peru could provide for him and his wife, whose visa status did not allow her to work in the U.S. Tory went to work in New York's high-pressure investment-banking world after finishing an M.B.A. at Dartmouth. He thought the action was there and he was safe in his job at Bank of America despite the crisis, but he says he realized recently that the offerings in Lima were even better. "I think that I will have more opportunities professionally and personally in Lima," he says...
That could also be true for, say, Dallas. Peru has a long way to go in its development, and its returnees know they still have a chance to do great things...