Word: peruvian
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...UNCERTAIN GRACE: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF SEBASTIAO SALGADO, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The first U.S. exhibition for the Brazilian-born Salgado, a onetime economist who took up photography to document life in developing nations. Whether in a Peruvian village, an open-pit gold mine in Brazil or a refugee camp in Ethiopia, Salgado sees not just hardship, though he sees a great deal of that, but also the immemorial underpinnings of life -- tradition, community and work -- that give suffering a meaning. Through...
...incentive to help: some $600 million to $1.2 billion in coca leaves are exported from Peru each year, feeding the world's cocaine cartels. Fujimori cannot hope to combat the drug problem if Peru sinks into political and economic chaos. The U.S. Congress has approved $35.9 million to equip Peruvian soldiers to fight guerrillas and cocaine merchants. But Fujimori wants to renegotiate, saying that the U.S. should pay to build roads and provide assistance for alternate crops...
Early Friday afternoon, Peruvian strongman Jose Luis Noriega showed he could stand the heat much better than his authoritarian namesake, spearheading his 17th-ranked San Diego men's tennis team's 5-3 victory over 13th-ranked Harvard in the sweltering 90-degree bakery of Indian Wells, Calif...
...political candidate who comes out of nowhere, the Japanese Tsunami could fade just as fast as he rose. But for now his fresh face and promises of greater social justice seem to be just what Peruvian voters are looking...
Nevertheless, Vargas Llosa tries to steal two or three hours in the mornings for reading, writing and contemplation. Mostly he reads poetry for its quick burst of language, but he admits that he finds it hard to concentrate these days. No doubt Peruvian reality rivals even the most artful and engaging of his novels. In Conversations in the Cathedral (1969) and The War at the End of the World (1984), the two books of which he is proudest, Vargas Llosa explored fanaticism, apocalypse and corruption. If he is elected President, Vargas Llosa will have to contend more directly with these...