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...This is the decision," he booms, totally avoiding Humala's name in nearly an hour on the stump. Garcìa and Chávez have been trading insults for months, since the Venezuelan leader began openly supporting Humala and attacking Garcìa, other candidates and Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo. "Hugo Chávez is helping us every time he speaks. And Humala does not understand this," says Enrique Cornejo, Garcìa's chief economic advisor...
...photographs were a long time coming. Shortly after Alejos’ death, a fifteen-year conflict erupted in Ayocucho between the Shining Path Maoist guerrilla insurgency and the Peruvian armed forces. After the conflict ended in 1995, Alejos’ family went back to his studio and found 100,000 glass plate negatives, 60,000 still intact. From this archive Lucia, Peruvian photographer and Alejos’ granddaughter, has begun to print the photographs in the exhibit, the most comprehensive remaining visual record of mid-century Ayacucho...
Student activists went bananas for fair trade foods at the week-long IMPACT summit hosted by the Harvard International Development Organization (HIDO), a group that targets global poverty. A fair trade expo in Boyslton Hall’s Ticknor Lounge featured demonstrations by artists from the Peruvian Textile Group, who were selling handcrafted scarves, bags, and rugs. An array of fair trade foods, including banana chips, chocolate fondue, and coffee, were offered free to students ripe for a better world. The summit, which ends tomorrow night, is HIDO’s first campus-wide event to confront issues of international...
...showcase women's art, this one doesn't dwell on a single period or collections from one artist, notes director Judy Larson. Nor does it focus solely on painting and sculpture. Special exhibits have also concentrated on women in film, literature and music. An exhibit of ancient Mexican and Peruvian art featuring women runs Mar. 3-May 28, to be followed by aboriginal painters from Australia, June 30-Sept...
...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-row seat in the first meeting between Chavez and Morales. The Peruvian press has started calling them the "Andean Troika." At the meeting, Chavez praised Humala and glowingly compared him to Peru's last nationalist military leader, Gen. Juan Velasco, who ruled between 1968 and 1975. The current government of Peru later recalled its ambassador from Caracas to protest what it described...