Bloggers from across Latin America also commemorated International Women's Day with posts about the day which is celebrated every March 8 throughout the world. Some also took the opportunity to reflect on some of the issues facing women, but also featured initiatives that are working to alleviat...

REAP?  Rapid Entry, Advance Plan.  But what is that? I suppose the best way to explain REAP as a strategy is to begin with why it is needed.  Getting a missionary to the field is no easy task.  Within the IMB, career missionaries must have seminary education.  That takes time and money.  The &...

Seit Ende vergangenen Jahres kann jeder Peruaner Straftäter festnehmen, ohne dafür wegen Freiheitsberaubung belangt zu werden. Dieser “Bürgerarrest” (arresto ciudadano). Nach Angaben des Kongressabgeordneten Egurén Neuenschwander (Unidad Nacional) wurden in den vergangenen Monaten al...

The International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has sent out an alert asking people like you to send letters to the Peruvian government and demand an investigation into a brutal attack on a transgender woman in the town of Tarapoto (please visit this link and find out how you ca...

Congratulations to Claudia Llosa and, by extension, to Peru for the success of La teta asustada, which just won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear for best picture. A couple of notes... First, the English title Milk of Sorrow is not even close to the Spanish original. I would have translated it ...

Einen gruseligen Fund machte ein Junge in Trujillo, der in ein leerstehendes Gebäude eindrang, um seinen Fußball zu suchen. In einem der seit rund einem Jahr unbewohnten Zimmer lagen ein Schädel, ein Unterkiefer, sowie ein Oberschenkelknochen. Die sofort gerufene Polizei fand außerdem mehrere BÃ...

In my previous work with individuals seeking political asylum in the United States based on their sexual orientation (and their fear of persecution should they be sent back home), I often would read articles and reports of violent beatings and abuse, particularly of transgender individuals, at the h...

Ante la inminente visita de Iron Maiden al Perú se esta organizando la 2da ExpoMaiden este Viernes 27 de Febrero en la discoteca “Noctulus” ubicada en Hernan Velardo 205 Santa Beatriz, aquí el afiche. Información de las Entradas: PRE-VENTA 10 Soles (ENTRADAS LIMITADAS) Los 2 Unicos Pu...

Filed under: History, South America, Peru According to a story posted on AdventureJourney.net, a website dedicated to adventure travel, the country of Peru is suing Yale University, for the return of a number of artifacts taken from the country nearly a century ago when legendary explorer Hiram Bing...

Come to papa. At The Fine Fishhook, the literal translation for the name of this congenial Peruvian restaurant, you'd expect an emphasis on things that swim (or used to). And yes, that's how I was hooked myself one lunchtime, by a bowl of creamy clam soup (true, clams aren't the best swimmers) follo...