Stories about Peru from August, 2006
Peru: Peruvian Cuisine in California
Alejandro is inspired to start blogging again after a visit to the Peruvian restaurant, Los Balcones del Peru in Hollywood, Calornia.
Peru: Mining Conflict
Living in Peru on a recent conflict between settlers from Combayo and the neighboring Yanacocha gold mine and its potential effect on foreign investment.
Peru: Download Digital Journalism Presentations
Presentations from the second annual Conference on Digital Journalism held on Friday, August 25 are now available for download (ES).
Ecuador, Peru: Discovery Kids on YouTube
Christian Espinosa describes a nephew who prefers watching Discovery Kids (Lazy Town) on YouTube (ES) rather than the television or the program's own website. Bruno Ortiz has more links on Discovery Kids’ online presence (ES).
Global Food Blog Report #29
#1: Maika's Blog on Haitian Food: "Griot" (pronounced: greee-yo ) a popular Haitian original. Which is fried pork shoulder accompanied with a spicy hot as habanero cole slaw like condiment called “Picklese” (s pronounced like a z). And served with a side of fried flatten green plaintain "bunan passe" (...
Blogging the Week in Peru
Este artículo también está disponible es español. These past few days, apart from the appointments of new government employees, it has been President Garcia's dogged persistence in fulfilling some of his campaign promises that has been making noise in the political section of the media. Perú Político deals with the...
Peru: Floréame
William Wong Garay introduces (ES) his newest initiative, Floréame (ES), a Peruvian-focused, Digg-like community which uses the same open source code as Menéame (ES). It has also been integrated on the BlogsPeru (ES) portal.
Peru: Ollanta Humala formally charged in ‘Madre Mia’ case
Living in Peru writes that Ollanta Humala has been formally charged in the forced disappearance and homicide of spouses Avila Rivera and Benigno Sullca Castro on June 17, 1992 in Pucayacu, ten minutes away from Madre Mia. Maxwell A. Cameron has posted the entre article in Spanish.
Peru: Audio of Film Festival Seminars
Did you miss last week's Festival Elcine in Lima, Peru? Not to worry, the audio from the lectures and seminars have all been released for free on the internet, according to (ES) Audiovisual Peruano.
Peru: Music: Remix Culture
Oscar Montezuma introduces Novamlima, the new project of Miki Gonzales. According to Montezuma (ES) the new album is “another glimpse of Peru's remix culture.”
Peru: Blog Day Festivities
Blogday Peru (ES) is the official blog of, you guessed it, Blog Day 2006 in Peru. On August 31st various members of Peru's blogging community will gather at Instituto San Ignacio de Loyola to celebrate.
Peru: Second Annual Digital Journalism Conference
Carlos Chang announces the second annual Conference on Digital Journalism (ES) to be held at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. The theme of this year's conference, organized by Grupo Periodismo Digital (ES) is “Tools and Challenges.” Writing from Ecuador, Christian Espinosa applauds the use of Skype Video (ES)...
Posts from Peru
Some of the recent political news inspired new posts in Peruvian blogs; here are some of them: Jomra takes a look at Quechua in Congress: a small step for a language forgotten by the State (ES). The post discusses the consequences of an incident that took place during the initial...
Food Blog Report #27
#1: From Stockholm, Sweden: Clivia's Cuisine and her marvelous Swiss chard dolmadas with rice and mushrooms! A gem of a recipe, and it looks delicious… Last week I visited Rosendals trädgårdar at Djurgården in Stockholm and found a big bunch of Swiss chard for only 15 SEK, so I bought...
Peru: Fiestas Patrias
Este artículo también está disponible en español. The National Holidays (“fiestas patrias”) have passed and, with a new ruling government at the helm, let's briefly look at what some of Peru's bloggers have to tell us: Jose Alejandro Godoy, in his blog Desde el Tercer Piso (“From the Third Floor”)...
Peru: Garcia Inaugurated Toledo Relaxing
Maxwell A. Cameron links to a summary of President Garcia's inaugural speech (ES) while Living in Peru says that former president, Alejandro Toledo is already relaxing at the coastal town of Punta Sal.
American Dictionary
There is a persistent myth which says that, save Brazil and a few indigenous communities, Latin America speaks a singular, uniform language. In fact, the Castilian Spanish carried over by explorers, colonialists, missionaries, and migrant workers throughout the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries was diverse in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary....
