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...country's first-ever elections in 1992 and then rejecting three subsequent peace accords, ensuring the continuation of the country's bloody civil war which has claimed more than half a million lives. DENIED PARDON. LORI BERENSON, 32, the American radical convicted in June 2001 of collaborating with Peruvian Marxist guerrillas and sentenced to 20 years in prison, by Peru's Supreme Court; in Lima. Berenson's parents appealed to the Peruvian President for amnesty for their daughter during last year's retrial of the former student activist, who was convicted of aiding the rebels in their war against...
...brief review of weaver Edwin Sulca’s biography goes a long way in explaining why his tapestries are infused with such hope and pain. Sulca is a native of Ayacucho, the Peruvian city which bore the brunt of the violent conflict between the government and the guerrilla movement Shining Path during the 1970s and ’80s. After surviving more than twenty years of civil war, Sulca has created a series of weavings that contribute to the resurgence of color and song...
Many of the tapestries in this exhibition have an accompanying story, song, or poem. The closest Sulca gets to literalism is probably “Weaving Life,” which uses the legend of the spider-storyteller to depict the major events of Peruvian history as symbols in a web. In this tapestry the correlation between the story and the symbol is clear and beautifully executed—but not as compelling as when Sulca uses symbols to build a metaphor. Such is the case in “For a Better World,” based...
...tapped as a replacement after the producers caught his performance as a streetwise muralist in the barely released 1997 drama Follow Me Home. "When you look at Miguel's eyes and you look at Ben's eyes," says Ichaso, "there's something enchanting and devilish." The son of a Peruvian mother and a Caucasian father, Bratt says he was drawn to Pinero's "sense of marginalization. He wrote about the most raw, gritty, ugly things that exist in society...
Earlier Vargas Llosa novels such as The City and the Dogs (survival of the fittest at a Peruvian boys' school, published in 1963) and Conversation in the Cathedral (entrenched corruption in Lima, 1969) foreshadow the harsh realism of this latest book. There are two main story lines. One is the sorrowful history of the Trujillo era, ending with his assassination. The other is the tale of Urania Cabral, a handsome New York City lawyer who returns to the Dominican Republic after a 30-year absence to visit her dying father and exorcise her demons...