Just as the temperatures begin to drop and our minds start to wander towards holiday gift-giving, our new organic cotton collections have arrived from Peru! Hand knit out of 100% Fair Trade-certified, organic cotton by our women’s coop in Piura, our new line of hats, scarves and fingerless gloves are soft, warm, stylish, and as always, ethical! Buy ‘em as a set, individually, or give them as the perfect gift this season.
Silvio of Lapicero Digital [es] writes about the lack of news in the Peruvian media about deaths caused by mercury contamination in Choropampa. The recent death of the Mayor of Choropampa, Vicente Zarate Minchán is thought to be a result of the contamination caused by the mercury spill that took place 8 years ago.
Approximately one month ago, the exhibit “Migration of the Saints” was inaugurated at the gallery Vértice located in the Lima neighborhood of San Isidro. The works by the artist Cristina Planas are iconoclastic in nature, and portrays the saints in an unconventional format. In the blog Palabras Van y Vienen II [es], M. Isabel Guerra interviews Planas, where she talks about why she chose this subject matter:
The blog Pepitas writes about journalist Vilma Escalante claims that Peruvian President Alan García refused to answer her questions because she works the newspaper La Primera, which he called an “anti-democratic and anti-system” media outlet.
After the crisis in the Peruvian cabinet as a result of the scandal involving high-level governmental officials and links to alleged bribes involving oil contracts, President Alan García decided to name a new Prime Minister. The selected individual, Yehude Simon, does not belong to Garcia's APRA party [es], and he was received with some skepticism by some political sectors and by the population because of his alleged past linked to the terrorist movement MRTA.
This week in El Salvador, hundreds of technology fanatics have assembled in the capital of San Salvador to take part in the latest edition of Campus Party. The event gathers participants “with their computers with the goal of share their worries, exchange experiences and take part in all types of activities related to communication and new technologies.
Guillermo from Quimeras Seductoras [es] summarizes the encounter of Juan Carlos, the King of Spain, and the Peruvian congresswoman Hilaria Supa, who met outside of the Congress buildings. She confronted the King and asked him to return all of the wealth taken by Spain during the Conquest.
Ventana Azul [es] provides the latest details on BarCamp Lima to be held Saturday, November 8.
Fernando from Pepitas.com posts the notice he received letting him know that strangers tried to crack his blog, targetting specifically 3 posts with complaints about two ministers. Luckily the attack was detected and although all the comments were erased by the crackers, the were able to recover most of them.
At the beginning of this month, television host Rosa María Palacios published on her column in the Peru21 newspaper an article titled We Have the Right to Know [es] in which she wrote about her fruitless tries to get information on a congressman's expenses, we may supposed, as the base for one of her television notes.
Laura Vannessa from Lau's Blog is very embarrased that a local university has cancelled a Digital Communications event because Jose Luis Orihuela, one of the speakers, was organizing a Beers & Blogs in Lima.
The house sits facing the sea on the beach in Las Arenas, Perú, 95km from Lima.
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Javier from El Lápiz y el Martillo compiles the last series of clashes between diverse factions of bloggers. In his post Paisaje después de la batalla (es) he ends with a reflection: “debate and criticism -even their sole existence- will always be more important than the pettiness and insults that will inevitably accompany them.”
Roberto Bustamante of El Blog del Morsa [es] posts about the need to write and document the history of the internet in Peru, and provides some interesting data regarding that history.
An initiative created by a television host and newspaper columnist [es] was well-received by Peruvian bloggers and now many, such as El Paki [es] and El Morsa [es] are adopting a Congressman as a way of monitoring how they are spending their taxes.
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