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term='Concerts in Peru'/><category term='discovery'/><title type='text'>Luis Durand's Blog</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>338</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-1237333673464189498</id><published>2011-12-24T06:34:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-24T07:05:18.428-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Papa Noel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Santa Claus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Norad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Feliz Navidad'/><title type='text'>Siguiendo el rastro de Santa Claus</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;El Comando de Defensa Aeroespacial de Norteamérica (Norad), tiene el registro en tiempo real de la ubicación exacta de Santa Claus, durante su entrega anual de regalos por todo el mundo. A Perú llegará a las 12.00 y en ese mismo momento entregará regalos a diestra y siniestra... Bueno, nunca está demás fantasear con la idea, pero en todo caso aquí está la ubicación de Papa Noel si estás interesado en cómo hace su chamba anualmente.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://www.noradsanta.org/map/index.html?embed=true" width="500" height="450" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-1237333673464189498?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/1237333673464189498/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=1237333673464189498' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1237333673464189498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1237333673464189498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/12/siguiendo-el-rastro-de-santa-claus.html' title='Siguiendo el rastro de Santa Claus'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-1467433304077137796</id><published>2011-12-04T07:50:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-04T08:41:06.262-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amistad'/><title type='text'>With a little help of my friend.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-J3JO3ST4w1c/Ttt4JkXLoZI/AAAAAAAABsI/VTzh8-rS0Q0/s1600/Paisaje1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-J3JO3ST4w1c/Ttt4JkXLoZI/AAAAAAAABsI/VTzh8-rS0Q0/s400/Paisaje1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682267460633076114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Siendo diciembre un mes bastante emotivo, no podría evitar recordar a un amigo que yace flotando entre las más lejanas estrellas; en los altos extramuros del infinito; en un imaginario y real Monte Olimpo; observando como los mortales, aquellos que permanecemos, emprendemos lucha y esperando el golpe final.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Creo firmemente que la verdadera amistad se forja en la en la madrugada de la vida, y dura hasta la media noche de ésta. Sólo que hay medianoches anticipadas, que nos editan y nos devuelven a donde estuvimos antes de tener nombre y apellido. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Siempre he de recordar al amigo y al hermano, aunque tu rastro, tu tristeza, tu peso y tu zapato no este más entre nos. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZBR0T3f7tUw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-1467433304077137796?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/1467433304077137796/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=1467433304077137796' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1467433304077137796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1467433304077137796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/12/with-little-help-of-my-friend.html' title='With a little help of my friend.'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-J3JO3ST4w1c/Ttt4JkXLoZI/AAAAAAAABsI/VTzh8-rS0Q0/s72-c/Paisaje1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-5731537577118411357</id><published>2011-11-27T20:25:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-27T20:54:21.615-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Recuerdos de un desamor</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FKzvLHj-LKc/TtLpbQp3OJI/AAAAAAAABr8/oBvwVlWH0Sk/s1600/sunset%2Bcaribe.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FKzvLHj-LKc/TtLpbQp3OJI/AAAAAAAABr8/oBvwVlWH0Sk/s400/sunset%2Bcaribe.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679858734603909266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;La luz roja de la sirena ondulante de un patrullero se colaba por la ventana del viejo bus donde Alberto viajaba. Aun cuando pensaba en Alexandra, no podía dejar de imaginar las historias que se tejerían tras esa patrulla: “¿Quiénes serán esos policías? ¿A quiénes estarán persiguiendo? ¿Qué enredo estarán tratando de resolver?” La mente de Alberto no podía dejar de hilar historias e hilvanar conjeturas sobre casi cualquier tema que asomaba sus estímulos. Pero, siempre estaba Alexandra quien aparecía permanentemente, como los fantasmas de MacBeth en Shakespeare de marzo. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Alexandra, era la clara luna imaginada en Andalucía mora, asomando su pícaro resplandor por las labradas ventanas de un palacio musulmán. Alberto la conoció un fin de semana en un congreso de periodistas hace meses atrás. Como dicen los huachafos de la retórica, la química fue perfecta, natural e inmediata. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Alexandra y Alberto no dudaron un minuto en salir los dos días en los que duró el congreso. El mar que los refrescó, la brisa que los acarició y el Sol que los abrazó coincidieron en que ambos se conocían en lo previo de una  o más vidas. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Y Alberto la recordó más y más, y aquellos recuerdos se fundían y se confundían con las espectrales figuras que dibujaba el paisaje nocturno durante su viaje. Cada casita en el camino, cada luz en la lejanía eran la promesa del próximo recuerdo que Alexandra continuaba plasmando en la ya atribulada mente de Alberto. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Alberto, la amó. La amó aunque este le era un verbo prohibido. Porque no lo usaba ni con su propia novia, cuya relación, pensaba él, estaba muerta en vida. Y sí, él amó a Alexandrá, y además fue consciente que él amor también la encontró a ella. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;El bus paraba de tanto en tanto, ningún rastro de ciudad se asomaba más. La noche reinaba absoluta y soberbia sobre el desierto, no más luces en el horizonte; sólo bultos correlones por la ventana, y un asiento vacío a la derecha. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;“No hay más química” pensó Alberto. Mucho tiempo había pasado desde aquella experiencia con Alexandra, pero Alberto mantenía su recuerdo vivo artificialmente, jugaba con él, lo acariciaba y lo engreía. Pero él conocía el juego, sabía de lo efímero del sentimiento, de lo clandestino que fue aquella experiencia, y de la ninguna posibilidad de repetirla. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;La noticia del casamiento de Alexandra fue solo la confirmación de que el amor eterno es absolutamente efímero. Sin embargo, aún mantenía la esperanza de que éste se reencarne en otro nombre y en otro rostro. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;El bus llegó al final de su cansina ruta. Alberto no la recordó más. Olvido el sunset en la playa, su risa de antes y después, y su mirada de ahora y siempre. Recordó solamente que, el único compromiso válido entre ellos fue no tenerlo. Y sólo recordó eso, y nada más… y los recuerdos se bañaron en realidad, cuando los labios de Adriana estrecharon los de Alberto. “Me extrañaste mi amor” susurró Adriana. “Mucho mi amor”, mintió Alberto.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-5731537577118411357?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/5731537577118411357/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=5731537577118411357' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/5731537577118411357'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/5731537577118411357'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/11/recuerdos-de-un-desamor.html' title='Recuerdos de un desamor'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FKzvLHj-LKc/TtLpbQp3OJI/AAAAAAAABr8/oBvwVlWH0Sk/s72-c/sunset%2Bcaribe.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-1456146157190451410</id><published>2011-10-12T23:28:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-10-12T23:41:29.355-05:00</updated><title type='text'>La Embustera de Egipto y el caso de los embalsamamientos urbanos I</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2fdMZs_dq54/TpZq6SLH6DI/AAAAAAAABrY/BmACFwTCxfI/s1600/momias.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 269px; height: 187px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2fdMZs_dq54/TpZq6SLH6DI/AAAAAAAABrY/BmACFwTCxfI/s400/momias.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662831131008428082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;En el documento, impreso en la última hoja A4 que le quedaba a la comisaría de Chorrillos se podía leer: &lt;b&gt;“A las dieciséis horas del 29 de octubre de 2011, efectivos de la comisaría de Huaylas en el Distrito de Chorrillos encontraron el cuerpo, en aparente estado de momificación de Sandra Daniela Chávez Álvarez, sin evidencias de daños, contusiones,  ni laceraciones; más allá de aparentes costuras en el cuerpo de la víctima. El cuerpo no despedía ningún tipo de olor fétido, estando con la occisa todas sus pertenencias y objetos de valor”.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;La noticia llegó a las redacciones periodísticas como reguero de pólvora, y la pregunta siempre era la misma, ¿Cómo es que alguien que había desaparecido sólo unos días atrás pudo haber sido encontrada en estado de momificación absoluta? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A las ocho de la noche del mismo día del hallazgo, los primeros reportes empezaban a aparecer en los medios de comunicación televisivos de Lima. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ESTUDIANTE DE MEDICINA ES HALLADA EN ESTADO DE MOMIFICACIÓN, SIN SIGNOS DE VIOLENCIA FÍSICA.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A las 10 de la noche del mismo día, se filtraría la información de se habría extraído la masa encefálica y los intestinos de Sandra Daniela, en una suerte de ritual momificación. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;La noticia estalló con mayor fuerza en todos los medios de comunicación, y las especulaciones empezaron a retumbar en todas las esferas de una sociedad, ya bastante acostumbrada a historias de asesinatos. Sin embargo este, tenía una especial y macabra diferencia. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A las once de la noche del mismo día, entra una llamada al set del programa televisivo Noticia Dominical. El profesor Roberto Olaechea del departamento de antropología de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, dijo en cadena nacional que ese procedimiento de momificación era idéntico al practicado hace más de cinco mil años en el antiguo Egipto; y que no había escuchado nada nunca igual en la historia moderna. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Alexandra&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A través de la ventana del avión de KLM se puede ver el ala agitándose, como si en algún momento se fuera a desprender de él. El sonido de las turbinas del motor era el perfecto acompañamiento para alguien a quien sólo le interesaba dialogar con su soledad. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Frente a ella, una pantalla marcaba el punto exacto sobre el cual la nave sobrevolaba. “El Atlantico es amplio, pero llegaré a tiempo” pensó Alexandra, mientras bebía una copa de vino, que la azafata vestida de impecable azul, le invitó. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;No era la primera vez que Alexandra hacía esta ruta, al contrario, es probablemente la décima vez que lo hacía, no lo tenía tan claro. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Lo que si tenía claro, era la extraordinaria necesidad de descanso que tenía, luego de los incontables viajes que tuvo por el interior de Perú durante el último mes. Viajes que la llevaron al Cusco, Arequipa y Nazca. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Alexandra llevaba en su pasaporte muchos sellos que hablaban de viajes a recónditos lugares. China, Egipto, Kenia, México, Yemen, Japón; además de toda la zona europea. Eso alteraba un poco la noción que tenia de las escalas horarias; pero le permitió alcanzar un alto estándar en dominio de lenguas, que le permitían moverse con suma facilidad en entornos culturalmente extraños y exóticos. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Precisamente esa era su fortaleza, desde que era estudiante de Antropología  de la Universidad Central de Venezuela en Caracas. Su padre, un humilde profesor de colegio de pueblo, inculco en ella un amor compulsivo por la lectura desde pequeña. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Alexandra lo tenía muy presente, y era un recuerdo inevitable en su diario devenir. Sin embargo recuerdos amargos asaltaban su mente de tiempo en tiempo. Recuerdos que le hicieron aplicar a esa beca en Arqueología en la Universidad de Zurich, y dejar atrás los cinco años de relación con Juan Pablo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mientras pensaba en pedir otra pequeña botella de vino, Alexandra pensó en lo primero que haría al llegar a su apartamento en Altstetten. En su novísima cátedra de Arqueología Peruana, y en su viaje a Jordania con Paul, su nuevo y desabrido novio británico.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-1456146157190451410?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/1456146157190451410/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=1456146157190451410' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1456146157190451410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1456146157190451410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/10/la-embustera-de-egipto-y-el-caso-de-los.html' title='La Embustera de Egipto y el caso de los embalsamamientos urbanos I'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2fdMZs_dq54/TpZq6SLH6DI/AAAAAAAABrY/BmACFwTCxfI/s72-c/momias.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-1344404442943210166</id><published>2011-10-09T09:20:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2011-10-09T11:52:44.242-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='embustera'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='egipto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cronicas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Venezuela'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Peru'/><title type='text'>La Embustera de Egipto y su visita a Lima</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hvaXfvC78S0/TpGyRJPa4cI/AAAAAAAABrQ/-P7CqjO_C7k/s1600/Egipto.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hvaXfvC78S0/TpGyRJPa4cI/AAAAAAAABrQ/-P7CqjO_C7k/s400/Egipto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661502214189539778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Cuando la madrugada del lunes pasado recibí la llamada de mi mejor amiga, cuyo nombre no mencionaré, me encontraba en un profundo sueño; que me llevaba a recónditos y subyugantes parajes, lejos, muy lejos de mi actual y solitaria ubicación. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;La llamada, en tono expectante y emocionado, era para alertarme de la inminente llegada de la inolvidable  y hermosa Alexandra, amiga de mucho tiempo, y a quien conocí casualmente durante un vuelo a Amsterdam muchos años atrás. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Alexandra tenía, y tiene, la particularidad de hacer que olvide muchas de mis noches más amargas y despobladas; y desde que nos conocimos, hemos desarrollado una fecunda amistad; llena de retos intelectuales y momentos realmente edificantes. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;No puedo ocultar la alegría que me causa volver a saber de ella. Lo único que conocía era que andaba viajando a exóticos lugares al rededor de mundo. Dejó Caracas para iniciar estudios en la Universidad de Zurich, la misma que también en visité en 2006, y donde nos volvimos a encontrar para tomarnos un café en el Odeon y conversar sobre su nueva maestría, y algo sobre mi vida amorosa, tan venida a menos por aquellos días. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Regresando a la llamada, la voz de aquella chica que no nombraré, me comentó que el vuelo de Alexandra debía llegar en poco tiempo, así como poco tiempo sería su estancia en Lima.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Alexandra,  tenía un rarísimo don de la ubicuidad. Una capacidad innata de estar en diferentes lugares, gracias a su trabajo de antropóloga y su  afición para hablar lenguas e idiomas extranjeros. Sin embargo, guarda para sí una serie de misterios que aún no he logrado descifrar. Aún cuando le he preguntado directamente sobre sus constantes viajes a Ica y Cuzco, sus vueltas a Egipto, y sus súbitos y cortísimos regresos al Perú.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Nunca obtuve una respuesta coherente, más bien, me cambiaba de tema, y nos encontrábamos conversando sobre su frustrada boda, y lo caro que costaba el alquiler su departamento en Altstetten.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Lo cierto es que últimamente he venido sospechando sobre la razón de sus visitas, el por qué de sus apariciones, y la razón de sus cortísimas estancias en Lima. Más todavía, la extraña coincidencia entre sus entradas al país, y la cadena de asesinatos selectivos desatada en la ciudad.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;De hecho he puesto en tela de juicio muchas de las cosas que me ha contado. He descubierto incoherencias en sus explicaciones, y extrañas proclividades por antiguos ritos de embalsamamiento que coinciden con lo aparecido en los medios últimamente. Igual, estoy resuelto a volver a verla, y a besarla, como lo hicimos hace unos meses.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-1344404442943210166?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/1344404442943210166/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=1344404442943210166' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1344404442943210166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1344404442943210166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/10/la-embustera-de-egipto-y-su-visita-lima.html' title='La Embustera de Egipto y su visita a Lima'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hvaXfvC78S0/TpGyRJPa4cI/AAAAAAAABrQ/-P7CqjO_C7k/s72-c/Egipto.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-7358159493485602309</id><published>2011-04-24T00:18:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-24T01:02:52.784-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Literatura'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='suicidio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gótico'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cuento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cronicas perversas'/><title type='text'>Muerte por un desamor</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6H5H8qElG-A/TbO4sz3ER6I/AAAAAAAABfo/9NtomoGxIqQ/s1600/PC280041.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6H5H8qElG-A/TbO4sz3ER6I/AAAAAAAABfo/9NtomoGxIqQ/s400/PC280041.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599021841726588834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Alberto clavó el filudo cuchillo hasta sentir el característico sonido del reprimido brote líquido en erupción que le hacía recordar aquella película de Alfred Hitchcock que vio por primera vez a los nueve años. Aquel rojizo fluído le trajo a la memoria aquella escena del baño; sin embargo no le dio mayor importancia. Cogió el trozo de zandía recién cortado y se dirigió a la sala. Los techos amplios de la casa, hacían que cada movimiento musitara un sonido espectral, al que ya se había acostumbrado con los años.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Fueron trece en total, conviviendo con la penosa y a veces autocomplaciente soledad, rodeado de la medianía gris de sus dolorosos pensamientos  siempre en satánico conflicto con sus lacerantes dudas morales. Repentinamente pensó en Diana. Recordó Alberto las frías y húmedas mañanas limeñas de agosto de hace cuarenta años. Tantos años – pensó atribulado. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Caminó cansino hacia el sillón de madera tallada en cedro, sentose frente a la ventana grande, miró emocionado el espectáculo silencioso de la luna llena; y en su nívea imagen creyó verla en inmaculada danza celestial. Allí estaba, literalmente en el cielo. ¿Cómo olvidarla? Cómo olvidar esperarla a diario tan solo para contemplarla a lo lejos, refugiado en la envolvente timidez que lo paralizaba.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Alberto, interrumpió sus recuerdos para llevarse a la boca un trozo de zandía, y continuó con su monólogo interior recreando la ficticia imagen en donde finalmente se arma de esquivo coraje y se enfrenta a Diana. Pero es tarde ya.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;La noticia de su muerte fue demasiado para él. Lo sobrecogió en demasía saber de su partida dejando solamente una estela de pesadumbre y dolor. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Alberto la dejó de ver en la universidad, no la vio envejecer ni perder su belleza, quedando en su memoria intacta y vívida.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Esa noche, bajo el rubor de la Luna, Albero cogió el cuchillo ya enrojecido por el jugo de aquella fruta, y palpó la madera tosca su mango, deslizando uno de sus dedos por el frío filo metálico. Al tiempo que una idea daba vueltas en su atribulada mente.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sí, ¿por qué no? - se preguntó extasiado. La solución final sería esa.  Volverla a ver y estar cerca de su ser sin los temores de antes, y con la resolución que nunca tuvo. Sólo sería un pequeño trance hasta alcanzarla en ese imaginario patio repleto de nuncas; en ese colosal mediterráneo donde ella ahora navega esplendorosa y majestuosa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Alberto acercó la punta del filudo objeto hacia su corazón, sintió de él sus palpitaciones, su respiración se aceleró - es sólo un apretón - pensó. Presionó fuerte con las dos manos su boleto hacia Diana, pero una lágrima brotó de sus ojos. Soltó el cuchillo y lloró.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;¡Soy un cobarde! - se reprochó, mientras lloraba como una criatura. Alberto no tenía valor de hacerlo. Ni siquiera el amor por Diana le servía para llegar a ella. Ella que sí lo tuvo para llegar a él. A ese que no era Alberto, y del que Diana vivió enamorada hasta la enajenación, y por quien se mató con una daga en el corazón.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-7358159493485602309?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/7358159493485602309/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=7358159493485602309' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/7358159493485602309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/7358159493485602309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/04/muerte-por-un-desamor.html' title='Muerte por un desamor'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6H5H8qElG-A/TbO4sz3ER6I/AAAAAAAABfo/9NtomoGxIqQ/s72-c/PC280041.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-1177546398851781368</id><published>2011-04-17T07:23:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-17T18:20:15.023-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Las 10 Estrategias de Manipulación Mediática de Noam Chomski</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uTmjCfBSdzs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lacomunidad.elpais.com/lisiprada/2011/3/23/10-estrategias-manipulacion-mediatica-chomsky"&gt;Noam Chomski&lt;/a&gt; definió las 10 estrategias de manipulación mediática más utilizadas en el mundo, y en especial en países en desarrollo. Algunos de los puntos mencionados son ampliamente reconocibles en el Perú como práctica habitual. Aún cuando parece un poco conspiranoico, muchos de los elementos y variables explicados por Chomski son realmente practicados y evidentes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;1. La estrategia de la distracción&lt;/b&gt; El elemento primordial del control social es la estrategia de la distracción que consiste en desviar la atención del público de los problemas importantes y de los cambios decididos por las elites políticas y económicas, mediante la técnica del diluvio o inundación de continuas distracciones y de informaciones insignificantes. La estrategia de la distracción es igualmente indispensable para impedir al público interesarse por los conocimientos esenciales, en el área de la ciencia, la economía, la psicología, la neurobiología y la cibernética. ”Mantener la Atención del público distraída, lejos de los verdaderos problemas sociales, cautivada por temas sin importancia real. Mantener al público ocupado, ocupado, ocupado, sin ningún tiempo para pensar; de vuelta a granja como los otros animales (cita del texto ‘Armas silenciosas para guerras tranquilas)”.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;2. Crear problemas y después ofrecer soluciones&lt;/b&gt;. Este método también es llamado “problema-reacción-solución”. Se crea un problema, una “situación” prevista para causar cierta reacción en el público, a fin de que éste sea el mandante de las medidas que se desea hacer aceptar. Por ejemplo: dejar que se desenvuelva o se intensifique la violencia urbana, u organizar atentados sangrientos, a fin de que el público sea el demandante de leyes de seguridad y políticas en perjuicio de la libertad. O también: crear una crisis económica para hacer aceptar como un mal necesario el retroceso de los derechos sociales y el desmantelamiento de los servicios públicos.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;3. La estrategia de la gradualidad.&lt;/b&gt; Para hacer que se acepte una medida inaceptable, basta aplicarla gradualmente, a cuentagotas, por años consecutivos. Es de esa manera que condiciones socioeconómicas radicalmente nuevas (neoliberalismo) fueron impuestas durante las décadas de 1980 y 1990: Estado mínimo, privatizaciones, precariedad, flexibilidad, desempleo en masa, salarios que ya no aseguran ingresos decentes, tantos cambios que hubieran provocado una revolución si hubiesen sido aplicadas de una sola vez.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;4. La estrategia de diferir.&lt;/b&gt; Otra manera de hacer aceptar una decisión impopular es la de presentarla como “dolorosa y necesaria”, obteniendo la aceptación pública, en el momento, para una aplicación futura. Es más fácil aceptar un sacrificio futuro que un sacrificio inmediato. Primero, porque el esfuerzo no es empleado inmediatamente. Luego, porque el público, la masa, tiene siempre la tendencia a esperar ingenuamente que “todo irá mejorar mañana” y que el sacrificio exigido podrá ser evitado. Esto da más tiempo al público para acostumbrarse a la idea del cambio y de aceptarla con resignación cuando llegue el momento.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;5. Dirigirse al público como criaturas de poca edad.&lt;/b&gt; La mayoría de la publicidad dirigida al gran público utiliza discurso, argumentos, personajes y entonación particularmente infantiles, muchas veces próximos a la debilidad, como si el espectador fuese una criatura de poca edad o un deficiente mental. Cuanto más se intente buscar engañar al espectador, más se tiende a adoptar un tono infantilizante. Por qué? “Si uno se dirige a una persona como si ella tuviese la edad de 12 años o menos, entonces, en razón de la sugestionabilidad, ella tenderá, con cierta probabilidad, a una respuesta o reacción también desprovista de un sentido crítico como la de una persona de 12 años o menos de edad (ver “Armas silenciosas para guerras tranquilas”)”.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;6. Utilizar el aspecto emocional mucho más que la reflexión&lt;/b&gt;. Hacer uso del aspecto emocional es una técnica clásica para causar un corto circuito en el análisis racional, y finalmente al sentido critico de los individuos. Por otra parte, la utilización del registro emocional permite abrir la puerta de acceso al inconsciente para implantar o injertar ideas, deseos, miedos y temores, compulsiones, o inducir comportamientos…&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;7. Mantener al público en la ignorancia y la mediocridad.&lt;/b&gt; Hacer que el público sea incapaz de comprender las tecnologías y los métodos utilizados para su control y su esclavitud. “La calidad de la educación dada a las clases sociales inferiores debe ser la más pobre y mediocre posible, de forma que la distancia de la ignorancia que planea entre las clases inferiores y las clases sociales superiores sea y permanezca imposibles de alcanzar para las clases inferiores (ver ‘Armas silenciosas para guerras tranquilas)”.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;8. Estimular al público a ser complaciente con la mediocridad.&lt;/b&gt; Promover al público a creer que es moda el hecho de ser estúpido, vulgar e inculto…&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;9. Reforzar la autoculpabilidad.&lt;/b&gt; Hacer creer al individuo que es solamente él el culpable por su propia desgracia, por causa de la insuficiencia de su inteligencia, de sus capacidades, o de sus esfuerzos. Así, en lugar de rebelarse contra el sistema económico, el individuo se autodesvalida y se culpa, lo que genera un estado depresivo, uno de cuyos efectos es la inhibición de su acción. Y, sin acción, no hay revolución!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;10. Conocer a los individuos mejor de lo que ellos mismos se conocen.&lt;/b&gt; En el transcurso de los últimos 50 años, los avances acelerados de la ciencia han generado una creciente brecha entre los conocimientos del público y aquellos poseídas y utilizados por las elites dominantes. Gracias a la biología, la neurobiología y la psicología aplicada, el “sistema” ha disfrutado de un conocimiento avanzado del ser humano, tanto de forma física como psicológicamente. El sistema ha conseguido conocer mejor al individuo común de lo que él se conoce a sí mismo. Esto significa que, en la mayoría de los casos, el sistema ejerce un control mayor y un gran poder sobre los individuos, mayor que el de los individuos sobre sí mismos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-1177546398851781368?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/1177546398851781368/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=1177546398851781368' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1177546398851781368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1177546398851781368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/04/las-10-estrategias-de-manipulacion.html' title='Las 10 Estrategias de Manipulación Mediática de Noam Chomski'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/uTmjCfBSdzs/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-5930342991906420585</id><published>2011-04-16T06:00:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-17T18:22:45.555-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ciencias naturales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La vida secreta del caos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BBC'/><title type='text'>BBC: La vida secreta del caos.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Este documental de la BBC ofrece una mirada diferente del aparente desorden de la materia, la cual puede ofrecer escenarios de una gran belleza. Nos muestra cómo los elementos más básicos del cosmos pueden devenir en las ideas más abstractas y desarrolladas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="460" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hbW_kNp8Wos" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="460" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hPMvRzC8oLk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="460" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/y6eqZgDZR4I" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="460" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4rMWmH4qOxc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="460" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6h0vyZADqCM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="460" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZalffH3ZdOY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="460" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/X-6ysdldlsM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-5930342991906420585?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/5930342991906420585/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=5930342991906420585' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/5930342991906420585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/5930342991906420585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/04/bbc-la-vida-secreta-del-caos.html' title='BBC: La vida secreta del caos.'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/hbW_kNp8Wos/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-2545970152874059574</id><published>2011-04-15T16:40:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-15T16:40:00.852-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='122 aniversario del nacimiento de Charles Chaplin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tiempos Modernos'/><title type='text'>122 aniversario del nacimiento de Charles Chaplin</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u3fK4cavRHg/TaiNDnIDAuI/AAAAAAAABfY/CaC6EjJCVr0/s1600/ModernTimes%2Bcharles%2Bchaplin.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 263px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u3fK4cavRHg/TaiNDnIDAuI/AAAAAAAABfY/CaC6EjJCVr0/s400/ModernTimes%2Bcharles%2Bchaplin.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595877630189699810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin"&gt;Charles Chaplin&lt;/a&gt; nació un 16 de abril en 1889, por lo que cumpliría 122 años, y una de las mejores formas de recordarlo es a través de su trabajo. Tiempo Modernos es una de sus películas más icónicas, que nos muestra un mundo cada vez más industrializado y deshumanizado en el medio de la Gran Depresión norteamericana. Esta película, muda y en blanco y negro, es una crítica a las condiciones laborales de la época; que se practican incluso hoy en día en muchos países del mundo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Tiempos Modernos tiene una gran significación social, aún cuando el mismo Chaplin le ha restado esa importancia. La película tiene algunos efectos sonoros, y se considera el paso inmediatamente previo al cine sonoro. Les dejo la película ya completamente colgada en YouTube.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MHdmaFJ6W6M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kujc_IZX404" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tWSfQlh-R9E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/S3oDpIV2pPk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yPWhXWsc_Jw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JWY1tLWR5ek" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dOu9PBkkjgA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/O0jlimCaXCY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/v73AUdMBx_c" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-2545970152874059574?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/2545970152874059574/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=2545970152874059574' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/2545970152874059574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/2545970152874059574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/04/122-aniversario-del-nacimiento-de.html' title='122 aniversario del nacimiento de Charles Chaplin'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u3fK4cavRHg/TaiNDnIDAuI/AAAAAAAABfY/CaC6EjJCVr0/s72-c/ModernTimes%2Bcharles%2Bchaplin.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-7519998906981678811</id><published>2011-04-14T23:09:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-14T23:26:24.679-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Crónica de un desamor</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://blog.forthmedia.com/images/blog_images/L1004270.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 488px;" src="http://blog.forthmedia.com/images/blog_images/L1004270.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ya no amo sus gratuitos amores, ni la rosa de marzo, ni su risa ni su verso. Ya no amo su sonrisa, ni la brisa sin esfuerzo. Ya no la amo... nunca la ame, fue un lejano fantasma, un espejismo que yo inventé... y sin embargo te dilatas ante mi, superlativa tu... pretendes colonizarme infructuosamente, aun cuando mis quereres han zarpado ya de tu puerto. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;No me ames, pienso, no me envuelvas en mi propia culpa. Esquivo tu cariño, me escapo de tus caricias, tus palabras me laceran y el día es plomo. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Cruzamos la calle, las miradas fugaces, las prisas extrañas, las gentes... tu y yo, pero yo con mis pensamientos... mis pensamientos con ella, con ella que no eres tú; que tú no eres ella. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Entramos al café de siempre, no sentamos en la mesa de madera de siempre, y pedimos lo de siempre. Y la rutina, y la repetición tortuosa, y tu voz que me ama, y que no amo ya... porque busco la de ella, e imagino que te invento en ella, que no está pero que está.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Y viene el café, que hoy es amargo, que es vacío, que es abril sin otoño... y recuerdo Zurich nevado, y la invento alli, morena y universal, y su piel en fenomenal lucha con la nieve nevada... pero está tú, y regreso brutalmente a Lima, sucia y gris, y polvorienta. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Y me hablas de nuevo, como siempre, con cariño, cariño que ya no es bonito. Y la gente entra al café de siempre y se sienta al rededor, y finjo un torpe sonrisa que concluye tus áridos comentarios, y miento... y miento... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Y ahora la culpa ríe a mi lado, se burla de mi tibieza, de mis temores... y tú me dices por qué no hablo, que estoy raro... yo no estoy raro, me pienso, simplemente no te quiero... y te digo, es el trabajo amor, son las clases de la universidad, ¿y ya viste lo de las elecciones? Cualquier cosa sirve para apartar tus navíos de mis costas... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Y te miro y no reconozco tus torpes labios, que un día fueron perfectos, ya no te quiero mía... te dejo libre... vuela a un nido sin mi, pero muero muriendo y no lo digo... y sorbo café, y escucho la salsa de un cantante sin importancia, y pienso en que te veo gorda... y digo, “ya no la quiero”, pero para mis adentros...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Tu me miras... yo ya no lo hago... me tomas las manos y deseo las de ella, y recuerdo Zurich de nuevo, el tranvía azul , y la imagino conmigo bajando conmigo en Alstetten, rodeados de extraños acentos y con frío... pero ella no está.. estás tú. Y tú me quieres y yo no.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-7519998906981678811?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/7519998906981678811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=7519998906981678811' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/7519998906981678811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/7519998906981678811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/04/cronica-de-un-desamor_14.html' title='Crónica de un desamor'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-533712862182311830</id><published>2011-04-12T11:46:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-12T11:50:52.306-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Martha Chávez en Prensa Libre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Martha Chávez con Rosa María Palacios.'/><title type='text'>Martha Chávez reloaded</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Recordad es volver a vivir; directamente desde lo peor del Neo Fujimorismo, Martha Chávez diciéndonos que si no cuidan a sus hijos, les puede ir muy mal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KDb9uBxK_FU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-533712862182311830?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/533712862182311830/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=533712862182311830' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/533712862182311830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/533712862182311830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/04/martha-chavez-reloaded.html' title='Martha Chávez reloaded'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/KDb9uBxK_FU/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-6567181658373848705</id><published>2011-04-12T10:23:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-12T11:01:15.091-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marx en el Soho'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='el Capital de Marx'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marxismo en Perú'/><title type='text'>Marx te explica el Capitalismo y el Comunismo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;De la obra &lt;b&gt;Marx en el Soho&lt;/b&gt;, escrita en 1999 por el historiados Howard Zinn, extraemos algunos pasajes de un supuesto Marx resurrecto y defendiendo sus ideas diferenciándolas del tipo de gobierno de la ex Union Soviética, y defendiendo el humanismo del corporativismo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;La obra pretende presentar a un Marx común y corriente, como padre de familia tratando de mantener a su familia e hijos. La obra es una invitación a la reflexión sobre los actuales tiempos que vivimos en el mundo. Este Marx definitivamente rules!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4CU2QpTt8Nc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/B2E723RePHE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5oJ9yh2gifQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/l_tBGHY9q_A" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-6567181658373848705?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/6567181658373848705/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=6567181658373848705' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/6567181658373848705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/6567181658373848705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/04/marx-te-explica-el-capitalismo-y-el.html' title='Marx te explica el Capitalismo y el Comunismo'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/4CU2QpTt8Nc/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-5520073778107263234</id><published>2011-04-11T17:02:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-12T21:00:29.244-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Racism Peru'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ollanta Humala'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PPKus racistas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='racismo en Perú'/><title type='text'>El neoracismo Limeño</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TDzpqJy5d98/TaTztJLe2GI/AAAAAAAABfQ/m5mljOu97H8/s1600/afiche_racista.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 252px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TDzpqJy5d98/TaTztJLe2GI/AAAAAAAABfQ/m5mljOu97H8/s400/afiche_racista.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594864593984739426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Afiche catalogado de racista en 2007&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Luego de los resultados de las últimas elecciones, en las que los candidatos Ollanta Humala y Keiko Fujimori obtuvieron la mayor cantidad de votos, y que los conduce a disputarse la segunda vuelta; las reacciones entre muchos jóvenes de la clase media y alta  limeña (y de otras grandes ciudades) ha hecho recordar lo peor del neofascismo  más intolerante.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;p lang="es-ES" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;Particularmente no creo que estemos frente a un fenómeno nuevo, peinso que siempre tuvimos un racismo soterrado desde épocas pre hispanas. La teocracia inca basó su poder en la opresión de pueblos como los Chancas y los Chachapoyas. Posteriormente los Españoles hicieron lo suyo hasta la República Aristocrática.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p lang="es-ES" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;Somos un país estratificado en clases sociales muy diferenciadas las mismas que coinciden con características raciales, siendo una minoría predominantemente blanca y de procedencia europea la que conduce los intereses del país. Por otro lado la gran mayoría de ciudadanos que vive en extrema pobreza son en su mayoría  descendientes de la población indígena y negra.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/SV-sCksJySI/AAAAAAAAAKY/LZg62P4ePqk/s1600/gecerro.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 440px; height: 576px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/SV-sCksJySI/AAAAAAAAAKY/LZg62P4ePqk/s1600/gecerro.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Diferencia marcada entre pobres y ricos en Lima&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Todos estos elementos configuran una realidad muy clara, en el Perú la pobreza está íntimamente ligada con la postergación étnica, económica y social; y se reproduce día a día. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sin embargo han sido en estás elecciones, donde más evidentes se han hecho los prejuicios entre los diferentes sectores sociales, sobre todo de parte de muchos de los seguidores de Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, quienes simplemente no podían concebir que su candidato no haya pasado a la segunda vuelta electoral.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;El origen del racismo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Durante la colonia sucedió algo similar a una violación, dado que los españoles sólo estaban interesados en el oro inca; saquearon, robaron y violaron; eventualmente cristianizaron.  Esta situación provocó una suerte de trauma en donde el colonizador es el violador, y los indígenas la parte violada; de tal forma que toda forma de opresión se validó en el marco de la hegemonía europea.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Esta situación se arrastró en el tiempo, se grabó en el inconsciente colectivo de la sociedad, y la emancipación reafirmó esta situación, en donde el blanco era superior y el indio inferior. Por eso hasta nuestros días la población india se siente menos, y trata al blanco con superioridad avergonzándose de su condición.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Con la aparición de los medios de comunicación masiva, estos hechos se reafirmaron a través de las peliculas de vaqueros por ejemplo, donde los blancos eran los buenos mientras los indios eran los malos. Aún cuando los indios lo único que hacían era defender su territorio. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Son trescientos años de colonización española, y casi doscientos de república, que día a día han reafirmado esta brecha, aún cuando en los últimos años ha habido una suerte de aceptación aún tenue,  este proceso electoral, no hace sino hacer evidente el soterrado racismo que hay en el Perú.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ya durante la época del terrorismo las noticias de muertes y asesinatos de comuneros, eran vistas con lejanía desde Lima, los muertos indígenas no eran asumidos como propios, y los medios de comunicación les dedicaban poco espacio.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w1IyLXo1QA4/TPKMfwdWisI/AAAAAAAAEqg/mLcBp59DgBc/s1600/perucartaabiertadehugoblancoamariovargasllosa_uchuraccay.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 540px; height: 361px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w1IyLXo1QA4/TPKMfwdWisI/AAAAAAAAEqg/mLcBp59DgBc/s1600/perucartaabiertadehugoblancoamariovargasllosa_uchuraccay.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Muertes en la época del terrorismo en Perú&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Todos estos hechos configuran una sociedad fragmentada entre los habitantes de la costa criolla, moderna e industrializada, y el resto del país en su mayoría con altísimos niveles de pobreza. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Los comentarios racistas de todo tipo en estos días, aparecidos en las redes sociales son un indicador de que todo lo mencionado  subsiste de forma lamentable entre miembros de una clase social con un supuesto mejor nivel educativo . Más todavía, estos episodios de intolerancia nada democráticos son similares a los ocurridos en Bolivia, y que desataron una escalada de violencia en Santa Cruz.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Es probable que estos hechos queden aquí como una anécdota más de las elecciones, y regresemos al status quo. Pero también es posible que aparezca algún caudillo que canalice este racismo y le de forma, tal como la película alemana La Ola, en donde un profesor, a través de un experimento, reproduce una situación de totalitaria a través de una pregunta: ¿Es posible que Alemania vuelva a tener un gobierno dictatorial en pleno siglo XXI?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k_gwAoj1_-I/TaO85HB_J0I/AAAAAAAABfI/DwJee2sgm3Y/s1600/comment3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k_gwAoj1_-I/TaO85HB_J0I/AAAAAAAABfI/DwJee2sgm3Y/s400/comment3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594522851450234690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Expresiones racistas aparecidas en Facebook luego de las elecciones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UBqAfswaAvM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trailer de la película alemana la Ola&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="440" height="390"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7Q1d59tj_Pw&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;version=3"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7Q1d59tj_Pw&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="440" height="390"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Racismo en Bolivia&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-5520073778107263234?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/5520073778107263234/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=5520073778107263234' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/5520073778107263234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/5520073778107263234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/04/el-neoracismo-limeno.html' title='El neoracismo Limeño'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TDzpqJy5d98/TaTztJLe2GI/AAAAAAAABfQ/m5mljOu97H8/s72-c/afiche_racista.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-2162776300816091526</id><published>2011-04-10T00:18:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-10T00:22:06.583-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fujimorismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='doodle'/><title type='text'>Doodle Electoral</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dGQvTWQdjY8/TaE9w3eMJyI/AAAAAAAABfA/E7FhjQmegY4/s1600/doodle.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 232px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dGQvTWQdjY8/TaE9w3eMJyI/AAAAAAAABfA/E7FhjQmegY4/s400/doodle.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593820121904457506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Lo malo del doodleelectoral de Google es que tiene los colores del fujimorismo. Por otro lado, la intención de customizar nuestos usos y costumbres es buena.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-2162776300816091526?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/2162776300816091526/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=2162776300816091526' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/2162776300816091526'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/2162776300816091526'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/04/doodle-electoral.html' title='Doodle Electoral'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dGQvTWQdjY8/TaE9w3eMJyI/AAAAAAAABfA/E7FhjQmegY4/s72-c/doodle.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-5870695971850841112</id><published>2011-04-09T06:31:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-09T07:55:27.530-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cortos franceses'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='animación'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Machu Picchu Post'/><title type='text'>Machu Picchu en animación francesa</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VgUHjWuZKno/TaBXKpSbYjI/AAAAAAAABe4/GvZXZ_oSdFQ/s1600/galerie_D01__05.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VgUHjWuZKno/TaBXKpSbYjI/AAAAAAAABe4/GvZXZ_oSdFQ/s400/galerie_D01__05.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593566577587610162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Encontré una muy chévere animación &lt;a href="http://machupicchupost.free.fr/#"&gt;francesa sobre Machu Picchu,&lt;/a&gt; en la que se muestran algunas visiones mágicas como marco de una pequeña historia de un niño, su llama y un avión. El título del corto es &lt;a href="http://machupicchupost.free.fr/#"&gt;Machu Picchu Post&lt;/a&gt;. Los Créditos está &lt;a href="http://machupicchupost.free.fr/contacts.html"&gt;aquí&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="540" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/L3S7W50t1RA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-5870695971850841112?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/5870695971850841112/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=5870695971850841112' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/5870695971850841112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/5870695971850841112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/04/machu-picchu-en-animacion-francesa.html' title='Machu Picchu en animación francesa'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VgUHjWuZKno/TaBXKpSbYjI/AAAAAAAABe4/GvZXZ_oSdFQ/s72-c/galerie_D01__05.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-1097579534459076192</id><published>2011-04-07T12:00:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-07T12:11:53.665-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='juicio Alberto Fujimori'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Keiko Fujimori'/><title type='text'>Sí lo está!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Un día como hoy, hace un par de años la justicia peruana dio un gran ejemplo de libertad democrática a través de una sentencia histórica que envió al ex dictador Alberto Fujimori a prisión por 25 años por los crímenes de Barrios Altos y La Cantuta. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Un pequeño homenaje a este evento es este clip editado con la voz de la relatora del juicio y su conocida frase "sí lo está". Mejor escúchenlo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cGcRYFnNv5w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-1097579534459076192?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/1097579534459076192/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=1097579534459076192' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1097579534459076192'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1097579534459076192'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/04/si-lo-esta.html' title='Sí lo está!'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/cGcRYFnNv5w/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-1606878348528901800</id><published>2011-04-06T21:18:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-06T21:58:32.660-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Antonieto Arrieta dreams'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cronicas perversas'/><title type='text'>El encuentro</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-az_H2huFegw/TZ0mziUvvBI/AAAAAAAABew/Ht2hFriN7lA/s1600/boston.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-az_H2huFegw/TZ0mziUvvBI/AAAAAAAABew/Ht2hFriN7lA/s400/boston.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592668979093027858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Boston&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;¿Se puede ser un aspirante a la felicidad siendo más bien un asistente aplicado de la tragedia? ¿Se puede engañar y embaucar constantemente a la verdad, para ser un torpe y voluntario invento pérfido y sin gracia?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sí se puede, y lo compruebo día a día, lo veo aquí y allá. Pero sí tuviera que encarnar aquello que veo cada mañana en sólo una persona, esa desgraciada alma sería la de Flora Carbalho.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Flora es toda ella un misterioso acertijo, una subrepticia adivinanza tapizada barrocamente de superficiales lecturas, poses estudiadas y una lascivia sin prohibiciones morales. Ni siquiera ella misma sabría decir de qué puerto provienen sus navíos, ni qué bandera flameaba en su azotado existir.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ella, su nombre, sus emociones y su vida fueron quince primeros años de falsedades consuetudinarias; ambivalencias que llegaron a su fin con un viaje y una revelación.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Fueron pues, las playas de Santa Guadalupe del Embarcadero, escenario teatral de sus primeros arrebatos adolescentes: furtivos marinos, hijos de familias notables (y no tan notables), deportistas y pequeños escritores quienes incendiaron por primera vez las praderas inmaculadas de su morena piel.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Curiosa e intuitiva, supo ser buena amante de sus amamantes. Fue una brillante amante. Fue mi amante. Y sí que lo fue. Y aún lo es. Lo sigue siendo. Hasta cuando me escribe dejándome cartas con mensajes subrepticios, por debajo de mi puerta.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Es mi amante hoy, como lo fue en el pasado. Es mi amante a solas y frente a su dolorosamente aburrido novio. Es mi amante, de día y en la penumbra de su cuarto al que me sé depositar a escondidas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Miro el anchuroso mar, acoplado ya en el vapor que me lleva rumbo a Boston y no hago más que recordar a Flora. Sus traviesos arrebatos en casa de sus padres, que son en verdad sus abuelos. Sus inocentes historias de perversos finales y esa necesidad clamorosa de agradarme, de retribuirme de alguna forma. Aún cuando siempre la supe digna de mis mayores desconfianzas, Flora fue siempre una luchadora en la guerra por conquistar parcelas efímeras de mis afectos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Lo cierto es que sus propios conflictos existenciales no hacían sino espantarme. Y debo decir además que nunca satisfizo mis más sutiles deseos estéticos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Conocí a Flora, un poco de casualidad en el segundo piso de un pequeño bar frente al mar, durante una accidental visita a playa Hermoza, una porción de litoral al sur de Santa Guadalupe del Embarcadero.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Flora acompañaba a su familia en una improvisada tertulia en torno a una mesa roja de plástico acrílico. Sobre ella, botellas de cerveza y canchita servidas, que matizaban una conversación sobre fútbol y comentarios políticos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;En la mesa se encontraba el dipsómano padre de Flora: don Germán; sus tíos Hector y Ramón; su tía Vicky; y sus abuelos Benjamín y Ernestina.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Aquella vez, subí a tomar un trago con mi viejo amigo, Elton, quien vivía en playa Hernoza, aunque no en la el área residencial, sino más bien cerca del barrio de pescadores. Nos ubicamos cerca de la mesa familiar de Flora con el ánimo de tener una vista privilegiada a la playa y al mar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;De inmediato, note la mirada lujuriosa y libertina de la traviesa Flora apuntándome decididamente como lo haría un poderoso reflector a la escena de una obra. Sin ella ser muy guapa, me llamó la atención la fuerza de sus negros ojos, de tal forma que me hacía perder el interés en la conversación de Elton.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Fueron cuarenta minutos de miradas mordaces y furtivas, ahogados en cerveza; que lo único que hacía era generar una combustión morbosa en mi mente. Me paré de la silla de plástico, típica de estos antros, miré a Flora con un rictus complice y bajé al primer piso a comprar un cigarro.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sólo treinta segundos luego de bajar al primer piso del local, donde funcionaba una pequeña bodega, bajó Flora. Nos miramos e inmediatamente después que ella pidiera unas galletas me presenté sin más.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;–&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Soy Antonieto, ¿Cómo estás? - Dije de forma apurada.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;–&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Me llamo Flora – me respondió sonriendo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Fue una presentación, que en realidad parecía protocolar, por el sólo hecho de seguir una formalidad social, un ritual administrativo simple que nos abriría las puertas al presentimiento de una aventura. Ambos teníamos claro lo que queríamos del otro.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;–&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Si quieres salimos un momento – le dije apresurado por el alcohol que&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;motivaba mis audacias.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;–&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Vamos, allí arriba mi familia tiene para rato, y quisiera sentir la brisa del mar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;En ese momento olvide que tenía a mi amigo esperando arriba, y me dejé llevar por mis malsanas intenciones liberadas por las cuatro botellas de cerveza que habíamos tomado.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;–&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Podemos conversar en las rocas – me dijo ella.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;–&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Si, claro vamos, adentro el lugar no está muy ventilado – dije yo procurando buscar un pretexto que mantuviera la secuencia de una conversación, sin que mis reales intenciones sean tan obvias.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Flora era una morena, no muy curvilínea aunque muy esmerada en atraer al genero masculino; a lo mejor esa actitud hizo que desde joven mantuviera tormentosos y fugaces romances con efebos tropicales acaecidos en la playa en temporada de verano.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Al acercarnos a la peña rocosa, a unos cincuenta metros del bar, Flora iba preguntándome si vivía cerca. Le respondí que sólo había ido a visitar a un amigo. Ella volvía a preguntar, en este caso, a qué me dedicaba; le respondí que estudiaba, aunque no en el país; sino en Boston. Nuevamente, Flora siguió inquisitiva, mostrando cierto interés en saber más de mi. El ambiente se iba rodeando mucho más de la humedad marina, a medida que nos acercabamos al mar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;La brisa hacía natural binomio con rumor de las olas, y nuevamente recordé a Morgana y nuestros paseos, esta vez en la tropical playa de Puerto Madero.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ya sentados en un de las rocas del rompeolas de la playa, miraba atento el rostro de Flora, y mientras me hablaba de su vida universitaria sentía que el frío disminuía la efervescente motivación alcohólica que me invadía, con lo que reparaba en las imperfecciones del rostro de Flora.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Acepto que no me interesaba la conversación que Flora quería desarrollar conmigo, por lo que hice mi primera incursión al tomarla de la mano. Sus manos eran suaves, lo que me hizo pensar que Flora, de unos veintidós años no solía hacía ningún tipo de actividad manual. Ella no protesto y en cambio se acercó a mi. Aproveché el momento para abrazarla. Voltee su rostro al mío, y sin mediar resistencia de su parte, la besé sin recato.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Aquel sería el preludio de una relación que se extendería por unos nueve meses, hasta hoy que me voy a Boston a encontrarme con mi bella Morgana, dueña única de mis pasiones.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-1606878348528901800?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/1606878348528901800/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=1606878348528901800' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1606878348528901800'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1606878348528901800'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/04/el-encuentro.html' title='El encuentro'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-az_H2huFegw/TZ0mziUvvBI/AAAAAAAABew/Ht2hFriN7lA/s72-c/boston.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-1704199228156653540</id><published>2011-04-05T07:12:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-05T09:07:40.315-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='5 de abril'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dictadura'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='autogolpe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alberto Fujimori'/><title type='text'>Recordando el 5 de abril</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cdzbhp3GjAU/TZshWqTSJAI/AAAAAAAABeo/TQ1qszmK3-M/s1600/Fujimori.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 296px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cdzbhp3GjAU/TZshWqTSJAI/AAAAAAAABeo/TQ1qszmK3-M/s400/Fujimori.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592100035506611202" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hace 19 años el Perú perdió la democracia. En aquel momento nuestro país atravesaba una de sus peores crisis económicas y sociales, sólo comparable con los efectos ocasionados por la Guerra del Pacifico que, además, se desató un cinco de abril 1879.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;El responsable de este ataque al estado de derecho fue Alberto Fujimori, por aquel entonces Presidente Constitucional de la República, elegido a través de un sistema democrático que siempre despreció. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Alberto Fujimori disolvió un congreso, aprovechando la insatisfacción popular, para diseñar una constitución a su medida, que le permitiría ser reelegido permanentemente y perpetuarse en el poder copando absolutamente todas las instituciones del estado y corrompiendo la mayor parte de organizaciones de la sociedad. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;No se necesitaba destrozar el orden democrático cuando la economía ya estaba encaminada, y el GEIN ya estaba tras los pasos de Abimael Guzmán, a quien finalmente capturaron mientras Fujimori estaba pescando en el interior del país cerca de la frontera con Colombia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;El golpe de estado del año 1992 fue el inicio de una verdadera cleptocracia que le birló al Perú millones de dólares, consagrando la corrupción como un estilo de vida, como un medio natural de vida que hasta hoy congrega muchos adeptos, los mismos que añoran el regreso de la banda que nos gobernó.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hoy el apellido Fujimori busca instaurarse en el poder nuevamente, a través de las reglas de juego que hace 19 años destruyó. Y busca hacerlo con muchos de aquellos que participaron en aquel régimen, muchos de los cuales aún tienen que responder.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hoy conviene preguntarse qué tan tolerantes somos a la corrupción, qué tan grande es nuestra capacidad de indignarnos frente a la ruptura de los más básicos principios de la democracia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un reportaje de Marco Sifuentes &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/#!/uterope"&gt;@uterope&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="420"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/video/x1mcv9?width=560&amp;amp;theme=none"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/video/x1mcv9?width=560&amp;amp;theme=none" width="560" height="420" wmode="transparent" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1mcv9_lo-que-no-viste-del-5-de-abril-de-1_news" target="_blank"&gt;Lo que no viste del 5 de abril de 1992&lt;/a&gt; &lt;i&gt;por &lt;a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/ocram001" target="_blank"&gt;ocram001&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-1704199228156653540?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/1704199228156653540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=1704199228156653540' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1704199228156653540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1704199228156653540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/04/recordando-el-5-de-abril.html' title='Recordando el 5 de abril'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cdzbhp3GjAU/TZshWqTSJAI/AAAAAAAABeo/TQ1qszmK3-M/s72-c/Fujimori.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-3757968863135288166</id><published>2011-04-03T22:34:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-03T23:18:01.506-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PPKuy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BCP'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PPK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cuy Mágico'/><title type='text'>Cuando los Cuys hacen negocio.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ijbHPR8t84Q/TZk-BmJq7XI/AAAAAAAABeg/ADPdxeMqzAg/s1600/ppkuy.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 172px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ijbHPR8t84Q/TZk-BmJq7XI/AAAAAAAABeg/ADPdxeMqzAg/s400/ppkuy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591568609499082098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Colores e imágenes de la campaña de PPK&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZYTgxjJb2Co/TZk8joVkROI/AAAAAAAABeY/RrH_atKnwXg/s1600/cuymagico.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZYTgxjJb2Co/TZk8joVkROI/AAAAAAAABeY/RrH_atKnwXg/s400/cuymagico.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591566995178144994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Spot BCP con el Cuy Mágico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ha sido lanzado un nuevo spot del BCP con el Cuy Mágico como protagonista principal, danzando a los acordes de una cumbia cuyo estribillo es: &lt;i&gt;“Con el cuy cuy Mágico mi platita yo tendré, con el cuy cuy mágico exitoso yo seré”&lt;/i&gt;.  Esto no tendría nada de raro si no estuviéramos a una semana de las elecciones, y cuando uno de los candidatos le debe a un Cuy, en este caso el PPKuy, gran parte de su éxito electoral. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Tampoco tendría nada de raro si los colores predominantes del spot no fueran el amarillo, celeste y rojo; que son los mismos colores de campaña del candidato PPK y su mascota. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Más aún, tampoco tendría nada de raro si el candidato Kuczynski, dueño del PPKuy,  no tuviera relaciones político – comerciales con el señor Dionisio Romero Seminario, dueño del Banco de Crédito del Perú y dueño del Cuy Mágico.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Yo creo, finalmente,  que el Cuy Mágico le consigue plata al PPKuy para ser exitoso.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="520" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tC5AUVmuCTs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-3757968863135288166?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/3757968863135288166/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=3757968863135288166' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/3757968863135288166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/3757968863135288166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/04/cuando-los-cuys-hacen-negocio.html' title='Cuando los Cuys hacen negocio.'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ijbHPR8t84Q/TZk-BmJq7XI/AAAAAAAABeg/ADPdxeMqzAg/s72-c/ppkuy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-8127664872726748066</id><published>2011-03-31T10:48:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-31T11:02:48.055-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Castañeda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='twitter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='JJ Rendón'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Elecciones 2011'/><title type='text'>J.J Rendón acepta implicitamente que Castañeda hace una mala campaña</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FNrpttErrXk/TZSjAiXeg7I/AAAAAAAABeQ/XttpqEMzzrE/s1600/jjrendon.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 203px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FNrpttErrXk/TZSjAiXeg7I/AAAAAAAABeQ/XttpqEMzzrE/s400/jjrendon.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590272267094229938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;J.J Rendón fue relacionado con la campaña de Castañeda Lossio, al punto que estuvo, aparentemente, a punto de ser asesor de su estrategia electoral. Sin embargo, de un momento a otro se confirmó que no sería parte del equipo solidario. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Las semanas han pasado, Castañeda ha caído en las encuestas hasta el 5to lugar, y su estrategia de propaganda no ha dado resultado; y parece a lo lejos que Rendón siente la pequeña satisfacción de no haber sido parte de ese fracaso. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Por lo menos eso se puede deducir de el comentario que le hace @melissita1204 en Twitter, cuando le pregunta a Rendón si había visto su último spot, y si podía ser considerado como ejemplo de lo que no se debía hacer en una campaña; a lo que Rendón responde: Totalmente.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-8127664872726748066?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/8127664872726748066/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=8127664872726748066' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/8127664872726748066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/8127664872726748066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/03/jj-rendon-acepta-implicitamente-que.html' title='J.J Rendón acepta implicitamente que Castañeda hace una mala campaña'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FNrpttErrXk/TZSjAiXeg7I/AAAAAAAABeQ/XttpqEMzzrE/s72-c/jjrendon.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-1944714262800465653</id><published>2011-03-31T10:14:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-31T10:14:00.186-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dictadura'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hugo Chavez'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Poltitica latinoamericana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sociología'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alberto Fujimori'/><title type='text'>Similitudes entre Chávez y Fujimori</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bA3Fm6HFlVw/TZRvCj-5G5I/AAAAAAAABd8/VUwErld_UU8/s1600/fujimori%2Bchavez.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bA3Fm6HFlVw/TZRvCj-5G5I/AAAAAAAABd8/VUwErld_UU8/s400/fujimori%2Bchavez.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590215127283080082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mucho se ha hablado de las similitudes y diferencias entre Alberto Fujimori y Hugo Chávez. Dos modelos ideológicos distantes, pero mellizos en el estilo de gobernar. Ambos apelan a las miserias de la población para aprovecharse de forma populista de sus necesidades. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ambos gobernantes accedieron al poder de forma democrática y a través de procesos electorales limpios, sin embargo ambos buscaron perpetuarse en el poder a través de modificaciones y cambios constitucionales. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ambos atacaron a la prensa libre, obviamente dejando algunos medios críticos para dar la imagen de pseudo democracia. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;En 2004 Steve Ellner escribió un ensayo titulado "Análisis comparativo de dos variantes de populismo" publicado en la Revista Venezolana de Eonomía y Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Central de Venezuela. Aquí expone diferentes aspectos que, a pesar de las diferencias ideológicas, hacen a estos dos dictadores iguales en esencia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="View Estudio Comparativo entre Hugo Chávez y Alberto Fujimori on Scribd" href="http://es.scribd.com/doc/51945199/Estudio-Comparativo-entre-Hugo-Chavez-y-Alberto-Fujimori" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Estudio Comparativo entre Hugo Chávez y Alberto Fujimori&lt;/a&gt;&lt;iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/51945199/content?start_page=1&amp;amp;view_mode=list&amp;amp;access_key=key-iptsf4msaxc8l9sxgft" height="true" ratio="0.772727272727273" scrolling="no" id="doc_39243" width="100%" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-1944714262800465653?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/1944714262800465653/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=1944714262800465653' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1944714262800465653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1944714262800465653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/03/similitudes-entre-chavez-y-fujimori.html' title='Similitudes entre Chávez y Fujimori'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bA3Fm6HFlVw/TZRvCj-5G5I/AAAAAAAABd8/VUwErld_UU8/s72-c/fujimori%2Bchavez.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-4064334009973042959</id><published>2011-03-30T16:14:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-30T17:56:19.694-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hugo Chavez'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ollanta Humala'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Perú'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Elecciones 2011'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Venezuela'/><title type='text'>Amistades peligrosas</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RHO6WgVGNd8/TZOefWEMfzI/AAAAAAAABdk/3QsrDxr-MIA/s1600/humala_chavez.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 357px; height: 325px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RHO6WgVGNd8/TZOefWEMfzI/AAAAAAAABdk/3QsrDxr-MIA/s400/humala_chavez.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589985823833227058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Nuevamente ese aspirante a &lt;i&gt;little Napoleon&lt;/i&gt; caribeño que es Hugo Chávez asoma sus narices en el proceso electoral peruano a través de una declaración a los medios desde Uruguay. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Y aunque no lo dice de forma directa, implícitamente muestra su apoyo a la candidatura del nacionalista Ollanta Humala, a quien define como "buen soldado". &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Definitivamente, y parafraseando a Marshall McLuhan, &lt;i&gt;el medio es el mensaje&lt;/i&gt;.  Es decir, no importa lo que diga Chávez de Humala, el sólo hecho de referirse a su candidatura genera una atmósfera que lo sitúa como su padre putativo o mentor ideológico.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Si esto último realmente representará una estocada a la candidatura de Humala, particularmente no lo creo. De hecho, mostrando un discurso bastante más radical, Humala obtuvo 48% de la votación nacional en el año 2006. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Viéndolo desde ese punto de vista, lo que Ollanta Humala debería hacer es sincerar su posición frente a Chávez y no ocultarla; después de todo una gran mayoría de peruanos admira los autoritarismos, sean de derecha populista (Fujimori) o de izquierda. Estos dos suman prácticamente el 42% de la intención actual de voto.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; Así reporta &lt;a href="http://elcomercio.pe/mundo/735281/noticia-hugo-chavez-defiende-ollanta-humala-estan-tratando-danarlo"&gt;El Comercio de Lima&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Garuda; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; "&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); "&gt;En su primera intervención sobre la candidatura de &lt;a href="http://elcomercio.pe/tag/2800/ollanta-humala" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 12, 255); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Ollanta Humala&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://elcomercio.pe/tag/29816/hugo-chavez" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 12, 255); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Hugo Chávez&lt;/a&gt; calificó al postulante por Gana Perú como “un buen soldado”, y destacó su historial como militar. “Ahora hay un partido ahí, un proyecto… el pueblo peruano sabrá por quién votar”, afirmó el mandatario durante su visita a Uruguay.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); "&gt;El presidente de Venezuela agregó que, al vincularlo con la candidatura de Humala, se está intentando perjudicar al líder del nacionalismo. “Ya empezó la cosa… “Esos son los de Chávez, cuidado”... están tratando de dañarlo”, comentó. Luego añadió que “el Perú, de los peruanos, para los peruanos; y que pase lo que el pueblo peruano decida en democracia”.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="510" height="285"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://elcomercio.pe/player/735281"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="high"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://elcomercio.pe/player/735281" width="510" height="285" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" quality="high"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-4064334009973042959?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/4064334009973042959/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=4064334009973042959' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/4064334009973042959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/4064334009973042959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/03/amistades-peligrosas.html' title='Amistades peligrosas'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RHO6WgVGNd8/TZOefWEMfzI/AAAAAAAABdk/3QsrDxr-MIA/s72-c/humala_chavez.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-8609274830263564933</id><published>2011-03-29T21:33:00.015-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-30T10:17:22.013-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hugo Chavez'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ollanta Humala'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaddafi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Libia'/><title type='text'>La cuestión Libia y Gaddafi para dummies</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sr_c7c43Lzc/TZMpygSskCI/AAAAAAAABdM/T43rZS6WoNk/s1600/gaddafi.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 194px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sr_c7c43Lzc/TZMpygSskCI/AAAAAAAABdM/T43rZS6WoNk/s400/gaddafi.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589857510135468066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;En el momento que escribo este post los aliados de la Otán han decidido darle un ultimátum al caduco régimen libio de Muamar el Gaddafi con la finalidad de darle una "salida digna" y detener de una buena vez el derramamiento de sangre en el país norafricano. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;En los últimos días algunas personas han hecho un símil entre las dictaduras latinoamericanas y árabes sin tomar en cuenta las notables diferencias culturales, religiosas y económicas que hay entre ambas realidades, aún cuando hay notables similitudes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;¿Pero cuáles son las características de este país afectado por la ola de revueltas que atraviesan los países musulmantes y qué lo llevó a esta situación?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Se dice que Libia ostenta nivel de desarrollo humano más alto del continente, así como la mayor esperanza de vida. Con una economía basada en la exportación del petróleo que representa el 95% del total de sus exportaciones es así que la economía de Libia es la sexta en África.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;En 1977 se instaura la Yamahiriya Árabe Libia Popular y Socialista, que es presidida por el cuestionado Muammar el Gadafi conocido como "el hermano guia de la revolución"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Grupos como las FARC de Colombia, IRA de Irlanda, ETA de España, y otras organizaciones terroristas han sido vinculadas a Gaddafi, quien además ha sido involucrado con diferentes actividades terroristas al rededor del mundo que tienen que ver con la masacre de Munich en 1972; el atentado contra la discoteca berlinesa La Belle en 1986; el atentado contra el vuelo 103 de Pan Am en 1988; y el vuelo 772 de UTA en 1989.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Gaddafi ha sido una suerte de comodín político a lo largo de su vida en el poder estrechando vínculos primero con Francia, y luego con la vieja Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas. Fue partidario de la unión árabe, del anticomunismo, la unión islámica y el prosovietismo. De hecho Gaddafi fue uno de los creadores de la Unión Africana.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Trípoli ya había sido bombardeada por la administración estadounidense de Ronald Reagan en 1986, en la que murió una de las hijas de Gadafi. Sin embargo, posteriormente la relacion entre Estados Unidos y Libia se restauraría.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-84-ugDE9ZwM/TZMmxzidxRI/AAAAAAAABdE/jRvMjAx4pZU/s1600/800px-Libyan_dinar_one_a.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 197px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-84-ugDE9ZwM/TZMmxzidxRI/AAAAAAAABdE/jRvMjAx4pZU/s400/800px-Libyan_dinar_one_a.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589854199587128594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;b&gt;Billetes con el rostro de Gaddafi en el año 2004&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;El régimen de Gaddafi ha intervenido militarmente a favor del gobierno militar de Uganda dirigido por Idi Amin durante la guerra con Tanzania. También intervino en su vecino Chad, donde se anexionó la Franja de Aozou, zona rica en Uranio.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Con el tiempo, y luego de dejar el patrocinio de grupos terroristas, así como la producción de armas de destrucción masiva; ha recibido el reconocimiento de la comunidad internacional, tanto así que Trípoli ha recibido la visita de diferentes dignatarios y autoridades de Estados Unidos, Reino Unido, Francia, Italia y Alemania.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AIYLkkCsnGo/TZMuKq0N8eI/AAAAAAAABdc/JoRD6fQANK4/s1600/110324_Qaddafi2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 346px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AIYLkkCsnGo/TZMuKq0N8eI/AAAAAAAABdc/JoRD6fQANK4/s400/110324_Qaddafi2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589862323323793890" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;b&gt;Gaddafi en encuentro con Nelson Mandela&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fRjacf7wTRI/TZMrpJrz5GI/AAAAAAAABdU/cI7C4rlwtGA/s1600/3129234.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 381px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fRjacf7wTRI/TZMrpJrz5GI/AAAAAAAABdU/cI7C4rlwtGA/s400/3129234.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589859548471223394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;Otro encuentro, esta vez con Tony Blair, ex primer ministro británico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;El régimen dictatorial de Gaddafi pretendió desarrollar una suerte de socialismo personal, entorno a su personalidad, e hizo interpretaciones de la democracia y "el gobierno del pueblo" a través de la publicación de El Libro Verde. Su gobierno expropió en un inicio diferentes compañías petroleras, aunque a partir del año 2000 les permite su ingreso para la exploración y exportación de este recurso. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Gaddafi es conocido por viajar escoltado por doscientas mujeres jóvenes y vírgenes, conocidas como la Guardia Amazónica.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;La conexión  Gaddafi - Chavez &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Algunas personas consideran que existe algún tipo de similitud entre el gobierno de Hugo Chávez y Gaddafi. Para comenzar aunque a muchos no nos guste, Chavez llegó al poder a través de un proceso electoral democrático, y no ha torturado y asesinado a miles de sus compatriotas como lo hizo Gaddafi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sin embargo, y sólo por defender algún tipo de arcaico modelo personal socialista, Hugo Chávez saca la cara de forma sostenida por su colega norafricano, y su forma de gobernar, al punto de haberle regalado una réplica de la espada de Simón Bolivar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Lo paradójico de todo esto es que, la revolución popular que en este momento atraviesa Libia ha nacido de su propia gente; lo cual revela una profunda contradicción en las convicciones chavistas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Evidentemente la única intención del gobernante venezolano es defender su modelo incluso a costa de la misma gente que demanda un cambio, y generar una sociedad en torno al petróleo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Cabe recordar con según Hugo Chávez, el movimiento bolivariano nace a partir del "caracazo" de febrero de 1989, la misma que fue en sí misma un movimiento popular del mismo modo que lo es el movimiento libio.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3f__NO9MY6Q" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0.4em; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 276px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hiMQfyZ1hGA/TZJUMtv_MwI/AAAAAAAABc8/OT_o09egyOw/s400/carlos%2Balvarez%2Bfujimori.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589622664936239874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Carlos Alvarez sería un excelente cómico si no tuviera esa proclividad a alquilarse a ciertos grupos políticos y económicos, como lo hizo en durante la época más difícil de la dictadura fujimorista.  Hoy ha sido reciclado una vez más en el programa "Enemigos Públicos" en el canal de Schutz. Porque los viejos amores del pasado no se olvidan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A propósito un texto de César Hildebrandt sobre "el mejor cómico" del Perú, y su prontuario fujimorista.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"La rata” y el ratón&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;por César Hildebrandt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Al señor Carlos Álvarez le gustaba rematarse (pero no de risa sino al contado) cuando Fujimori mandaba, Montesinos asustaba, Canal 7 pagaba y la gente decente vomitaba si encendía la tele.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Era la época en que el señor Álvarez salía en los mítines re-reeleccionistas del jefe de la banda (cruzada) que atendía en Palacio de Gobierno y en su filial de Chorrillos (o sea el SIN).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;El señor Álvarez cobraba en las ventanillas de Canal 7, recibía indicaciones del guionista Bressani, del productor Montesinos y del Akira Kurosawa de los vertederos (Alberto Fujimori), y con toda esa ayudantía detrás salía a la pantalla a enlodar a la oposición, a calumniar a los díscolos y a hacerles muecas a los desafectos (a tanto el insulto y a cheque en mano la inmundicia y a letra a 30 días el kilo de saña).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Y como el señor Álvarez es muy talentoso y es muy artista –y por eso fue reclutado por la mafia que usó a Lúcar como entretenimiento y a la señora Bozzo como la bruja del 69-, claro que hacía reír y por supuesto que era eficaz en su campaña de desacreditar a la democracia y de pintar como aves de mal agüero a los que peleaban en las calles por la desinfección del país.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Se reían los televidentes con estruendo y con eco se reía Montesinos y rabiaba la oposición y cobraba Álvarez. Y hasta salía Álvarez en los mítines del autor de “La Cantuta” y otras marchas fúnebres. Salía feliz Álvarez a bailar -con la anchura de todas sus caderas de folclórica in péctore- el baile del Chino, que sabía de memoria y que llegó a ser su cortina musical, el timbre de su celular y el himno que tarareaba cada vez que pasaba por caja en Canal 7 (el pago oficial) y por Cajatambo en el SIN (las 30 piezas de plata de cada bolo).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Todo era podridamente perfecto en ese mundo del año 2000, cuando la Alemania nazi-andina que iba ser el Perú estaba dispuesta a entregarse al Tercer Reich de Fujimori.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Y en ese mundo, claro, el señor Álvarez era, gracias a sus prodigios de transformista teatral, una especie de Eva Braun al servicio de la nueva Alemania (quise decir, del nuevo Perú).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hasta con un letrero que tenía pintado el año 3000 salía Carlitos Álvarez en los mítines de Fujimori mientras competía en bamboleo de caderas con don Francisco Tudela, el Canciller de Jade.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Con ese letrero que enseñaba por todo el escenario –donde la reina indiscutible era Rossy War-, Carlitos Álvarez proponía el milenio del que le pagaba en ese momento.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Años atrás, Héctor Delgado Parker, asesor de Alan García, le encomendó a Álvarez despacharse con el personaje de “Popy” Olivera. Olivera era enemigo –en tanto que cónyuge de una señora Wiese- de Alan García y para el buen Héctor era importante que Álvarez ridiculizara al máximo a Olivera poniéndole el nombre de un payaso venezolano y pintándolo siempre como un maniaco de la estupidez aniñada. Álvarez obedeció (con su cheque respectivo) y durante años “Popy” Olivera se exprimió ante cámaras.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Cuando don Baruch Ivcher era un fujimorista vestido de caqui y con galones de asimilado, Carlitos Álvarez fue el furgón de la fanfarria y el intérprete de todos los odios –de los miles de odios- que don Baruch Ivcher decidió expresar por la vía del humor (el humor de Álvarez, por supuesto). ¿Había un político faltoso? Le pedían a Álvarez que lo “destruyera” pintándolo de ladrón, borracho, idiota o degenerado (se podía escoger y había categorías no excluyentes) ¿Expulsaron a un periodista de la TV porque ya se venía el 5 de abril del 92 y había que desbrozar el terreno? Llamaban a Álvarez y él lo pintaba como mermelero, maricón, enano, drogadicto (se podía escoger, dependiendo de los ceros a la derecha que tuviera el cheque de fin de mes). Y cuando Ivcher se peleó con Fujimori y tuvo que irse del Perú porque sus ex socios de aventura querían inmovilizarlo debajo de una losa, Álvarez preguntó al Oráculo de Delta (Mónica) a quién debía de obedecer. Un vozarrón mandatorio que parecía venir de la prefectura onomatopéyica de Kagoshima respondió:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;-¡Obedecerás, como siempre, al que pague!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Y Carlitos obedeció a la voz que le ordenaba seguir obedeciendo. Así que, según el testimonio imborrable de Matilde Pinchi Pinchi -cronista de la cutra, corresponsal-cama adentro de las finanzas del SIN-, Carlitos Álvarez empezó a frecuentar Chorrillos y a recibir sobres de manila con papeles impresos por la Casa de la Moneda.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Cuando cayó Fujimori, el sistema anticorrupción escuchó a la Pinchi y llamó al pinche de Fujimori (o sea Montesinos) y le hizo la pregunta más imbécil de la historia:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;-Señor Montesinos: ¿a quién estaban dirigidos los sobres con dinero que tenían escrito el nombre de Carlos Álvarez?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Montesinos se dio cuenta de que la cucaracha Martina, previo porro, estaba haciendo de fiscal. Así que respondió:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;-A Carlos Álvarez.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;-¿A Carlos Álvarez, el cómico? –le preguntaron dos abejorros asistentes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;-No– dijo Montesinos, recordando su etapa de guionista de humor teledirigido-.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Y añadió:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;-Carlos Álvarez era el nombre falso de uno de los agentes del Servicio de Inteligencia.-&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;-¿Y otro de esos nombres falsos era Tulio Loza? –preguntó la cucaracha Martina alisándose una antena.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;-Así es –respondió Montesinos mientras se cagaba de la risa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Así que Carlitos Álvarez le debe su libertad a Vladimiro Montesinos. Bueno, le debe un montón de cosas pero podríamos decir que la libertad es la deuda más cara que el humorista deberá pagarle en serio, algún día, al co-autor de la letra de “Barrios Altos” (porque la letra con sangre entra).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Por eso es que Carlitos Álvarez causa una risa convulsiva, imparable y peligrosa para el corazón cuando ahora habla de “la libertad de expresión amenazada” y cuando afirma, ante la anuencia de sus amigos de pantalla y simpatías, que cuando sale con la cara de Rómulo León, la barba de Rómulo León, la voz de Rómulo León, las frases de Rómulo León, no está aludiendo a Rómulo León.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Y la risa que produce Carlitos llega a ser ruido molesto digno de Serenazgo cuando, encima, dice que decirle rata a León no es insultarlo porque, cómo no, lo de rata lo dijo el presidente García y ya sabemos que este humorista suele ser cola del que manda y rabo del que paga.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A mí, particularmente, Rómulo León, desde un punto de vista político, me da náuseas. Pero sería indigno de mi parte decir que cuando digo que Rómulo León me da náuseas políticas no me estoy refiriendo a Rómulo León. No hay que ser rata para actuar así. Hay que ser ratón de Fujimori y Mickey de Montesinos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Y por si acaso: esta columna sí se refiere a Carlos Álvarez, el cómico que da risa no sólo porque es brillante y hasta magistral sino por razones que él quisiera ignorar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Porque el humor no tiene por qué ser invertebrado. Charles Chaplin se enfrentó a la industria cinematográfica y venció. Al gran Lenny Bruce le hicieron el FBI y los conservadores la vida imposible. Hasta el primer Cantinflas (en blanco y negro) llegó a ser un pelao contestatario. En relación al poder, Carlitos Álvarez, en cambio, siempre está de humor para servirlo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-2167881551343257986?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/2167881551343257986/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=2167881551343257986' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/2167881551343257986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/2167881551343257986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/03/recordando-quien-es-carlos-alvarez.html' title='Recordando quién es Carlos Álvarez'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hiMQfyZ1hGA/TZJUMtv_MwI/AAAAAAAABc8/OT_o09egyOw/s72-c/carlos%2Balvarez%2Bfujimori.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-4603244830603872441</id><published>2011-03-29T13:27:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-29T13:31:23.114-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poema'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poesía'/><title type='text'>Háblame</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Uj4JgwTWgcU/TZIk8Navs4I/AAAAAAAABc0/YkRrz4nWlHE/s1600/atardecer.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Uj4JgwTWgcU/TZIk8Navs4I/AAAAAAAABc0/YkRrz4nWlHE/s400/atardecer.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589570704332796802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Háblame de tu tibia brisa en Coro,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yo te hablaré de las ganas que tengo de hallarte,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Háblame de ti, y de tu risa bañada en oro,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yo te hablaré de lo dulce que fue besarte.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Háblame de tus llaneros adentros,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;de la tierra mojada con olor a castaña,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;que yo dibujaré en los Andes nuestros dos encuentros,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;como quien inventa una leyenda de la noche a la mañana.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Háblame de tu danza arropada de luna,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;de tu sonrisa hecha de perlas,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;de tu cansancio de la una,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;de tus muchas dichas al verlas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Háblame de tu silencio con aroma a jazmines,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;de tu mar y del amazonas,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hablame de tu San Luis y sus verdes abriles,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;que a lo lejos, pequeña rebelde, asomas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ya no me hables más, hada de otoños,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;dejemos la esperanza abandonada,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;cúbrela de tiernos retoños,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;mientras yo sigo enamorado de tu mirada.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-4603244830603872441?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/4603244830603872441/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=4603244830603872441' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/4603244830603872441'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/4603244830603872441'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/03/hablame.html' title='Háblame'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Uj4JgwTWgcU/TZIk8Navs4I/AAAAAAAABc0/YkRrz4nWlHE/s72-c/atardecer.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-8168258693596096029</id><published>2011-03-29T09:19:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-29T09:31:26.186-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poema'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poesía'/><title type='text'>Me gustas...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EEFgqJ_yW24/TZHs-UtYL-I/AAAAAAAABcU/wEDRriDkxvw/s1600/atardece2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EEFgqJ_yW24/TZHs-UtYL-I/AAAAAAAABcU/wEDRriDkxvw/s400/atardece2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589509167998578658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Me gustas desde la A hasta la Z del abecedario de tu piel, que recien aprendo a deletrear  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Me gustas las 25 horas del día con sus 40 noches de almizcle.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Me gustas en tu delicado y delicioso acento de colores, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Me gustas caribeña como eres, universal y provinciana, salvaje y citadina.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Me gustas en cardo pero en ceniza, niña que a veces teme soñar, bella mora de todos los merecimientos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Me gustas en MAYÚSCULA, resaltada, superlativa, subyugante, bellamente arrogante.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Me gustas real  y terrenal ; y lista e inteligente como fuiste ayer,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Me gustas etérea e ideal como eres hoy,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Me gustas en la distacia porque permaneces perfecta, petrea, permanente, fija,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Me gustas cerca porque eres seductora de esquivos quereres, hechicera de poemas que sólo le escribo a calypso mitológica,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Me gustas casi nada, solo dos infinitos en el cielo,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Me gustas porque me gustas, niña de 25 navidades, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Me gustan esos dos ensueños con los que me escudriñas finjiendo no sentir lo que a lo mejor asoma.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Me gustas porque lees esto ahora mismo, o porque nunca lo leeras y tendrás un motivo menos para regalarle a los mortales tu sonrisa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;En fin, me gustas desde hace tres vidas, y me seguiras gustando por las próximas 25 ... brisa divina que me prestó amores, y me regaló desamores. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-8168258693596096029?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/8168258693596096029/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=8168258693596096029' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/8168258693596096029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/8168258693596096029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/03/me-gustas.html' title='Me gustas...'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EEFgqJ_yW24/TZHs-UtYL-I/AAAAAAAABcU/wEDRriDkxvw/s72-c/atardece2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-5469324621020279614</id><published>2011-03-28T20:33:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-29T07:38:29.065-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PPK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Elecciones Peruanas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Elecciones 2011'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eisha'/><title type='text'>El Perú es Lima, Lima es Eisha, y Eisha es PPK</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.rpp.com.pe/travesuras-de-ppkuy-en-calles-de-lima-imagen-noticia-1-n-/picsnews/608803.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://www.rpp.com.pe/travesuras-de-ppkuy-en-calles-de-lima-imagen-noticia-1-n-/picsnews/608803.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Qué extraño síntoma, qué exótico rictus genético tenemos los limeños que nos hace creernos el ombligo del Perú que no somos. En que clase cercado mental habitamos diariamente, que no nos permite reconocer lo que sucede en el resto del nuestro a veces macondiano país. Y es que a veces parece que nosotros los limeñitos sufrimos (o disfrutamos) de una especie de superlativo egocentrismo social, que nos hace presumir que si estamos bien (o eso creemos), el resto del país está bien.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Lo de los últimos días merece una especial atención de tipo sociológica o antropológica, porque revive (si es que alguna vez estuvieron muertas) viejas diferencias de sociales que es necesario que queden definitivamente en el pasado si es que en realidad queremos construir un proyecto civilizado de país. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Y me refiero a la defensa dogmática e incluso esquizoide que hacen algunas personas de un modo de proceder socioeconómicamente que requiere ser revisado cuidadosamente, y que su solo cuestionamiento, es no sólo impensado, sino que convierte a los cuestionadores en una suerte de leprosos sociales. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Existe, entre esta población, la noción de que el crecimiento de un país se hace evidente sólo a través de la construcción de más centros comerciales. Y que somos más primermundistas mientras más gente en el mundo se embriague con nuestro Pisco o se aglotone con nuestro Ceviche.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sin embargo, según la Defensoría del Pueblo a febrero del 2011, tenemos 234 conflictos sociales; de los que 160 son conflictos activos y 74 son latentes. Es decir, seguimos siendo un país sentado en un Fukushima social, que puede reventar en cualquier momento, como ya lo hizo Bagua y Arequipa, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sin embargo a pocos parece importarles desde Eisha, donde eso de que "en Lima hasta las moscas se acojudan" se hace descaradamente evidente. Y es que, como ya lo dijo César Hildebrandt, el sólo hecho de pretender elegir al señor Kuczynski es jugar con fuego al pie de un Huascarán de polvora y anfo, que reventará cuando los proyectos mineros se ejecuten a punta de tanques, y es que el señor PPK (hincha de Bush), es la versión brutalmente sincera de Alan Garcia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Muchos de esos limeñitos, que además son jóvenes, no sólo desprecian esa urgente realidad, sino que simplemente la ignoran o no la comprenden, lo que revela que la crisis educativa no sólo está en el C/D sino también en el A/B.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Y es que, estos fieles de la iglesia mujaidín de Adam Smith, realmente están convencidos que San Isidro es New York, y que porque viene Paul McCartney estamos en Everest del desarrollo Occidental; mientras a nadie le importa Pisco (a unos kilometros de Eisha), ni los muertos que tendremos en el próximo friaje del sur. Pero claro, el Perú avanza., y esos que se quejan son unos resentidos sociales que no aprecian nuestro crecimiento de 8% anual.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Definitivamente algo no anda bien en la hechura de nuestro país, algún tipo de anomia congénita o hueveo social, donde un subempleado vestido de "Kuy" es el mejor argumento de un campaña realmente patética. Después de esto, seguiremos creyendonos que el Perú es Lima, Lima es Eisha, y Eisha es PPK. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-5469324621020279614?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/5469324621020279614/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=5469324621020279614' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/5469324621020279614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/5469324621020279614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/03/el-peru-es-lima-lima-es-eisha-y-eisha.html' title='El Perú es Lima, Lima es Eisha, y Eisha es PPK'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-1689252640159326709</id><published>2011-03-15T08:00:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-15T08:34:04.427-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tripping'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tourism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Backpacking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Decodificando Machu Picchu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Backpackers and Travelers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Natgeo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Machu Picchu'/><title type='text'>Machu Picchu decoded by Natgeo Channel</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TfJB8JdLN3k/TX9l9OViTzI/AAAAAAAABcE/_FkZNaTJwys/s1600/machupicchu1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TfJB8JdLN3k/TX9l9OViTzI/AAAAAAAABcE/_FkZNaTJwys/s400/machupicchu1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584294165457555250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;On weekend I had the opportunity to watch this interesting documentary aired by Natgeo channel.  It shows new insights about the real story of Machu Picchu, and try offer new theories about its real porpuse: was it a fortess? maybe a kind of cementery? what was its real role in the Inca Empire. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Along the documentary we will see that its real planner and builder was Inca Pachacutec, and this amazing citadel was never found by Spanish, that's why it preserve its beautiful structure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Another interesting point is how this city can resist heavy rains; ancient engineers  founded the best way to avoid the water and take the best advance of this fact. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="540" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bJcLy0Qw-GQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="540" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/eRKtbnGDXpU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="540" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lHYbnGRprho" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="540" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ydmxOq9ivk0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="540" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/e2QJeL-cJy8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-1689252640159326709?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/1689252640159326709/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=1689252640159326709' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1689252640159326709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1689252640159326709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/03/machu-picchu-decoded-by-natgeo-channel.html' title='Machu Picchu decoded by Natgeo Channel'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TfJB8JdLN3k/TX9l9OViTzI/AAAAAAAABcE/_FkZNaTJwys/s72-c/machupicchu1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-5219729826747411291</id><published>2011-02-15T14:16:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-15T14:20:58.470-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Moche culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel peru'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Moche Pyramids'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alternative Trail'/><title type='text'>The Moche Route</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hello, I'd like to share with you this amazing alternative to tradicional tours to Peru, this is the Moche Route, a lovely tour that will take your to the Pyramids made by this great pre Inca culture.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This, will take you to Lambayeque and La Libertad departements. Please dont miss this interesting opportunity to discover this mystetious world.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="View rmochei on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/48163885/rmochei" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;rmochei&lt;/a&gt; &lt;object id="doc_955100546758795" name="doc_955100546758795" height="600" width="100%" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" style="outline:none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="opaque"&gt; 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This is a terrific discovery taking account no maps were used by archaeologists.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color:  rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Un equipo de investigadores japoneses  descubrió en las pampas de Nasca más de un centenar de centros de  líneas."&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color:  rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Un equipo de investigadores japoneses  descubrió en las pampas de Nasca más de un centenar de centros de  líneas."&gt;There are 138 little hills in which a set of lines can be found. There are 8000 ceramic pieces scattered around showing geometrical draws. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color:  rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Un equipo de investigadores japoneses  descubrió en las pampas de Nasca más de un centenar de centros de  líneas."&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color:  rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Un equipo de investigadores japoneses  descubrió en las pampas de Nasca más de un centenar de centros de  líneas."&gt;There are drwas of animal and plants, coloured with white, red, orange and other, according to Masato Sakai from the Yamagata University (Japan).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="result_box" class="long_text"&gt;&lt;span title="“Se trata de 138 montículos circulares de donde  salen conjuntos de líneas en los que hemos encontrado, además, más de  8.000 fragmentos de cerámicas decoradas que fueron arrojadas y en  algunos casos ligeramente enterradas y que muestran figuras geométricas y  de plantas y animales, donde predominan"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This team of archaeologists are trying to figure out the period in which these designs were made, while trying to know the eventual use to whish they gave. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="los colores blanco, rojo, naranja y ocre”, explicaron el  arqueólogo japonés Masato Sakai y el peruano Jorge Olano, codirector de  este proyecto que auspicia la Universidad de Yamagata (Japón)."&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Los investigadores habían anunciado antes el hallazgo de dos  nuevas figuras, una con forma de cabeza humana y otra de un ser  antropomorfo."&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Los investigadores habían anunciado antes el hallazgo de dos  nuevas figuras, una con forma de cabeza humana y otra de un ser  antropomorfo."&gt;Researchers had  previously announced the discovery of two new figures. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Estos  descubrimientos se ubicaron al extremo sur de esta zona monumental, muy  cerca del templo ceremonial de Cahuachi."&gt;These discoveries were  located at the southern end of this historic area, close to the temple  ceremonial Cahuachi. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Estos  descubrimientos se ubicaron al extremo sur de esta zona monumental, muy  cerca del templo ceremonial de Cahuachi."&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="CAMINOS A TEMPLOS"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span id="result_box" class="long_text"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Las nuevas figuras encontradas se encuentran en la parte  posterior de Cahuachi (vista frontal) y con dirección al suroeste, donde  podrían existir otros dibujos y trazos que no se han identificado."&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-6551632515630437776?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/6551632515630437776/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=6551632515630437776' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/6551632515630437776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/6551632515630437776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/02/138-centers-of-new-lines-discovered-in.html' title='138 centers of new lines discovered in Nazca'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-3496826588695701995</id><published>2011-02-13T07:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-13T08:38:23.583-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='huaraz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trekking peru'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='carhuaz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cycling peru'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='peru adventure'/><title type='text'>Adventure in Carhuaz, Peru</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OyfZa-IomEs/TVfV_-6CYSI/AAAAAAAABbw/lRf6OPclDMA/s1600/carhuaz%2B3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OyfZa-IomEs/TVfV_-6CYSI/AAAAAAAABbw/lRf6OPclDMA/s400/carhuaz%2B3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573158359089176866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;People in Carhuaz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Carhuaz is a beautiful little city located in Northern Peru, 34 km  away from Huaraz. Close to this lovely place you will find the hot springs of Monterrey, which is a must if you visit this place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many similarities between the streets of this city and the ones in  Callejón de Huaylas. Carhuaz takes its name from Carhuash, that yellow, which is the  colour  of the retama flowers that cover the hills nearby.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CDwWGX2ebXQ/TVfefvbs7MI/AAAAAAAABb4/k1vNs5FAuso/s1600/mapa%2Bcarhuaz.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 340px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CDwWGX2ebXQ/TVfefvbs7MI/AAAAAAAABb4/k1vNs5FAuso/s400/mapa%2Bcarhuaz.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573167700784245954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;Map of Carhuaz &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hualcán Mountain can be seen from the main square, and is is sad to be the second Huascarán. this place is a mix between spanish and prehispanic legacy, because of its ruins and old colonial Casonas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The climate is agreeable and moderate, suitable place for agricultural activities related with fruits for instance. Ideal place for fishing trouts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Taken from &lt;a href="http://www.huaraz.com/carhuazfiesta/"&gt;Huaraz.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Late september the Plaza de Armas of Carhuaz attracts people in droves, like the suger on the cap of the syrup bottles attracts bees. That is when the processions in honor of the Virgen de las Mercedes take place. The festival is taken very seriously by the Carhuacinos and lasts for more than a week.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Main Tourist Attractions are:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;La punta Olímpica&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;La Quebrada de Ulta&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Laguna de Auquiscocha y Cascadas&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pampa de Shonquil&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nevado de Hualcan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nevado Copa y Laguna Legiachocha&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Quebrada Honda&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Laguna de Huallcacocha y Chequiacocha&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;El Supe Jkalka (Stone of Devil)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;El Balneario de Bruja Armanan (place where witches take bath)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;the fountain="" of="" youth=""&gt;&lt;/the&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;the fountain="" of="" youth=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pYI5poOx7OM/TVfV_jVhYEI/AAAAAAAABbo/FbFT6YVIV-E/s1600/carhuaz%2B2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pYI5poOx7OM/TVfV_jVhYEI/AAAAAAAABbo/FbFT6YVIV-E/s400/carhuaz%2B2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573158351688261698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Carhuaz main Square&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NTAkJA7ZODA/TVfV_viTw5I/AAAAAAAABbg/nyVft3S0ZCQ/s1600/carhuaz.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 274px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NTAkJA7ZODA/TVfV_viTw5I/AAAAAAAABbg/nyVft3S0ZCQ/s400/carhuaz.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573158354963121042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/u5h9TaxP39s" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dfshFKRT9ek" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/the&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-3496826588695701995?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/3496826588695701995/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=3496826588695701995' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/3496826588695701995'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/3496826588695701995'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/02/adventure-in-carhuaz-peru.html' title='Adventure in Carhuaz, Peru'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OyfZa-IomEs/TVfV_-6CYSI/AAAAAAAABbw/lRf6OPclDMA/s72-c/carhuaz%2B3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-6070975036490879702</id><published>2011-02-12T14:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-12T14:33:01.643-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='extreme sports in peru'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Paragliding Lima Peru'/><title type='text'>Paragliding in Lima</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qxbC8OJKHac/TVberuAZQDI/AAAAAAAABbY/yVxVnr3nuF8/s1600/Paragliding%2BLima%2BPeru.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 211px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qxbC8OJKHac/TVberuAZQDI/AAAAAAAABbY/yVxVnr3nuF8/s400/Paragliding%2BLima%2BPeru.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572886431582994482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever wanted to do Paragliding? well, now in Lima you can do that. This is one mos t popular activities for the tourists who come to Peru between April and July. Business like Perufly teach you how to do this sport over the Pacific Ocean. More info here: &lt;a href="http://www.perufly.com/flights/index_esp.php?page=tandem"&gt;Perufly&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/A9QTiWurPlg" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-6070975036490879702?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/6070975036490879702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=6070975036490879702' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/6070975036490879702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/6070975036490879702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/02/paragliding-in-lima.html' title='Paragliding in Lima'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qxbC8OJKHac/TVberuAZQDI/AAAAAAAABbY/yVxVnr3nuF8/s72-c/Paragliding%2BLima%2BPeru.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-7914614469908426246</id><published>2011-02-12T14:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-12T14:05:26.743-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lima guides'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='city tour  in Lima'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lima bed and breakfast'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cheap prices Peru'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sightseeing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lima city tour'/><title type='text'>Guided City Tour Around Lima</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TDuf9dju-nI/AAAAAAAAAwc/3-2byJodnYY/s1600/Paseos+metropolitanos+copia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TDuf9dju-nI/AAAAAAAAAwc/3-2byJodnYY/s400/Paseos+metropolitanos+copia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493160048763796082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now you can discover &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima"&gt;Lima&lt;/a&gt;, the City of Experiences by an exciting city tour that will take you to its main touristic attractions, fascinating and ancient ruins, interesting museums, nice restaurants, and many other places you MUST to know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, if you are traveler backpacking in Lima, you have the opportunity to enojy a good time, optimizing your time and saving money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Museums&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Lima you will find most of the most important museums in Peru, that you can visit when you come to Lima:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_Nacional_de_Arqueolog%C3%ADa_Antropolog%C3%ADa_e_Historia_del_Per%C3%BA"&gt;Museo Nacional de Arqueología Antropología e Historia del Perú&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Natural_History,_Lima"&gt;Museum of Natural History&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_the_Nation"&gt;Museum of the Nation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larco_Museum"&gt;Larco Museum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sala Museo de Oro del Perú&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Museo de Arte Italiano&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Museo de Oro del Perú&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;But Lima has also Cathedrals, convents ant the&lt;a href="http://www.museocatacumbas.com/"&gt; mysterious catacombs of San Francisco&lt;/a&gt; that take you back to the past of this colonial city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Lima Urban Safary&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;a.-   Huaca Pucllana &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;We begin our city tour at Huaca Pucllana, which is an archaeological centre built in the fourth century, and is located at the heart of Miraflores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-17COP8iYvAY/TVapIi5nMWI/AAAAAAAABaw/zxF_0ybdA3M/s1600/Huaca%2BPucllana%2Bpyramid.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-17COP8iYvAY/TVapIi5nMWI/AAAAAAAABaw/zxF_0ybdA3M/s400/Huaca%2BPucllana%2Bpyramid.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572827553190064482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pyramid of Huaca Pucllana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--3YA5WpI818/TVaorFarBGI/AAAAAAAABao/wpPWl9_35d0/s1600/Huaca%2BPucllana%2Bnoche.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--3YA5WpI818/TVaorFarBGI/AAAAAAAABao/wpPWl9_35d0/s400/Huaca%2BPucllana%2Bnoche.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572827047059457122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Huaca Pucllana at Night&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_-W0SreFvJE/TVaoCFO-TGI/AAAAAAAABag/W_K4CuQ9yhU/s1600/huaca%2BPucllana%2B2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_-W0SreFvJE/TVaoCFO-TGI/AAAAAAAABag/W_K4CuQ9yhU/s400/huaca%2BPucllana%2B2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572826342635752546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oRyaaMnyCUk/TVaoB7zZmwI/AAAAAAAABaY/fTcPil1A-ug/s1600/Huaca%2BPucllana.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oRyaaMnyCUk/TVaoB7zZmwI/AAAAAAAABaY/fTcPil1A-ug/s400/Huaca%2BPucllana.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572826340104182530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;Ancient settlers of Lima&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qvUp8xOd9Bo" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;b.- Lima Centre&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Lets visit the Historical centre of Lima. beautiful monuments and colonial buildings are waiting to be explored by us. We'll visit Plaza de Armas, Plaza San Martín, Government Palace, the Cathedral City Hall and more...&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x8MbPEhRGQQ/TVa0TTF2fpI/AAAAAAAABbA/td6KAtg6aTg/s1600/plaza%2Bsan%2Bmartin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x8MbPEhRGQQ/TVa0TTF2fpI/AAAAAAAABbA/td6KAtg6aTg/s400/plaza%2Bsan%2Bmartin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572839832552898194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Plaza San Martín &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5wYXI8uvZlo/TVa0TpNJfQI/AAAAAAAABbI/915DQve2nRU/s1600/plaza%2Bde%2Barmas.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5wYXI8uvZlo/TVa0TpNJfQI/AAAAAAAABbI/915DQve2nRU/s400/plaza%2Bde%2Barmas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572839838489083138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Plaza de Armas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AIBtCjBohDU/TVa0TCxuLHI/AAAAAAAABa4/3kWoVie0ub8/s1600/palacio%2Bde%2Bgobierno.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 211px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AIBtCjBohDU/TVa0TCxuLHI/AAAAAAAABa4/3kWoVie0ub8/s400/palacio%2Bde%2Bgobierno.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572839828173499506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;Government Palace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;C.- Convent of San Francisco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Being a  UNESCO cultural heritage of Humanity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;, San Francisco Convent, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;has got &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;one of the largest exhibition of religous art in America&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Lets explore its underground, known as "Catacombs", a mysterious place full of history.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xXGxlSyFwe8/TVa7VbqVyHI/AAAAAAAABbQ/XiJ6O5f2_B4/s1600/san%2Bfrancisco%2Bconvent.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 294px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xXGxlSyFwe8/TVa7VbqVyHI/AAAAAAAABbQ/XiJ6O5f2_B4/s400/san%2Bfrancisco%2Bconvent.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572847565794560114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;San Francisco Convent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TDyN6sE4MII/AAAAAAAAAws/WcWIRy2AfUI/s1600/catacumbas2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TDyN6sE4MII/AAAAAAAAAws/WcWIRy2AfUI/s400/catacumbas2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493421684888711298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bones in the undergroung&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TDyN6X6aZXI/AAAAAAAAAwk/-j6RyagEmBs/s1600/catacumbas.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TDyN6X6aZXI/AAAAAAAAAwk/-j6RyagEmBs/s400/catacumbas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493421679476106610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Catacombs under the Church&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;If you want to enjoy these lovely places The Magic Circuit of Water, just get in touch with me once you are in Lima, we can go sightseeing in my Jeep and descover these places.  Just get in touch with me: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;luisjesusdc@gmail.com&lt;/span&gt; very competitive prices!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;C.- Fountains of Lima&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TDzALiUwPyI/AAAAAAAAAxc/GYpWLstRckY/s1600/circuito+magico2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TDzALiUwPyI/AAAAAAAAAxc/GYpWLstRckY/s400/circuito+magico2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493476949910109986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Colourful Springs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TDzALafxzZI/AAAAAAAAAxU/26dKUrKApRY/s1600/circuito+fuente+armonia.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TDzALafxzZI/AAAAAAAAAxU/26dKUrKApRY/s400/circuito+fuente+armonia.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493476947808865682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A pyramid of water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TDzAKyluUcI/AAAAAAAAAxM/1Bel-6kydkk/s1600/circuito_magico_del_agua.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 311px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TDzAKyluUcI/AAAAAAAAAxM/1Bel-6kydkk/s400/circuito_magico_del_agua.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493476937096384962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object height="362" width="450"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/n3ClEfWdFBg&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;fs=1?color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/n3ClEfWdFBg&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;fs=1?color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="362" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A interesting spot called "Lima City of Experiences"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TDyhWYmZ2GI/AAAAAAAAAw8/RxtAx-hIGT8/s1600/fondolima.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TUvtL-c4SUI/AAAAAAAABXg/Y5XU-mNmJlU/s400/pantallazo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569806154172221762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taken from &lt;a href="http://www.durandcomunicaciones.blogspot.com"&gt;DURAND comunicaciones.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Peru Live the Legend&lt;/span&gt; is the marketing slogan used by the Peruvian government to build a strong brand among those keen on having an unforgettable experience of live. But how to develop a powerful country brand? First of all, lets analize our target:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="View Perfil del turista extranjero en Peru 2009 on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/48159178/Perfil-del-turista-extranjero-en-Peru-2009" style="margin: 12px auto 6px; font: 14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; display: block; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Perfil del turista extranjero en Peru 2009&lt;/a&gt; &lt;object id="doc_990259548667025" name="doc_990259548667025" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" style="outline: medium none;" height="600" width="100%"&gt;        &lt;param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf"&gt;        &lt;param name="wmode" value="opaque"&gt;         &lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"&gt;         &lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;         &lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;         &lt;param name="FlashVars" value="document_id=48159178&amp;amp;access_key=key-24alpoxj8s3pco7ab7wv&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;viewMode=list"&gt;         &lt;embed id="doc_990259548667025" name="doc_990259548667025" src="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=48159178&amp;amp;access_key=key-24alpoxj8s3pco7ab7wv&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;viewMode=list" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#ffffff" height="600" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;     &lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can see that there isn't any difference between the amount of men and women coming to this land: 51% are men and 49% are women. 54% of foreign tourists are between 25 years old and 44 years old. 53% of them have are not single. 67% of tourists coming to Peru studied at University, have post graduate studies or any sort of master degree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;62% of them are interested in things related to politics, culture and economics. They spend an average of $1040, and half of them are &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;not interested&lt;/span&gt; in going to pubs, cultural restaurants or theathers: 56%&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a nutshell, we can see that an average tourist is someone able to spend money, well educated and keen on a cultural, outdoor experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, having that information, lets analize the branding objectives for this campaign:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Further develop Peru as a premier holiday destination.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create a powerful, distinct meaningful global brand identity.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Make tourism a major engine for economic growth for Peru and its people.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Build authentic travel experiences rooted in the brand message and image.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create and develop tourism circuits based on Peru's unique assets related to its:&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;-History&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;-Culture&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;-Contemporary civilization&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_OreoTH2QF8" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This spot tries to organize, and put together these ideas: adventure, outdoor experiences and cultural learning. Images showing Machu Picchu, sissors dancers, pink dolhins, food and many more while a mysterious middle age female voice wishpers stories about them. Then a message like "this mysterious place exists, see it, feel it". And then the slogan: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Peru, live the legend, &lt;/span&gt;which is composed by the verb to live, that means, go outdoors; and the second part that leads to another different kind of experience: a legend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/n3ClEfWdFBg" frameborder="0" height="390" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In this spot, having in mind the tourist profile, marketers try to offer Lima city, capital of Peru as a place that offers many different experiences to enjoy.  A place in which you will find leisure, history and culture. This is not a different message compared to the last clip, but it adds some different components.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Some important points Peruvian tourism office has to take account&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although it is clear what kind of tourist is coming to Peru, it is necessary to figure out what to do with some worldwide facts:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The recession has changed everything&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;          - No one income group or demographic is exempt&lt;br /&gt;          - The rich no longer “feel luxurious”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mass Market: The new leadership group&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;         - The concept of “saving” is a way of life, and Global Media: Travel they will still travel&lt;br /&gt;         - Standards are high, but different&lt;br /&gt;         - The Chinese have middle class values and travel in groups&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Keeping the options broad&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;      - Development of lodging, ground transportation, access to sights, etc, should be evenly  provided from luxury to economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Stakeholders&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Improving the marketing chain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The branding process needs to develop a powerful chain that identify and develop committment between the main stakeholders:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;The not-so-obvious travel stakeholders&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;          - Textiles.&lt;br /&gt;          - Retail (restaurants and others).&lt;br /&gt;          - Infrastructure and other construction companies and ministries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Agricultural products, companies, ministries (such as coffee)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Branding process&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Focus on a viral process, the strongest tool is the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;coherence &lt;/span&gt;between the media message and the personal message of those who has come to Peru previously. This tends to generate feed back, as long as the interest grows as time gos by.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-7970218813511503857?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/7970218813511503857/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=7970218813511503857' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/7970218813511503857'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/7970218813511503857'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/02/branding-peru-how-to-build-strong.html' title='Branding Peru, how to build a strong country brand'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TUvtL-c4SUI/AAAAAAAABXg/Y5XU-mNmJlU/s72-c/pantallazo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-3554627107364967364</id><published>2011-01-30T00:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-01-30T01:48:42.026-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mark Zuckerberg'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jessie Eisenberg'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Saturday Night Live'/><title type='text'>Zuckerberg meets Eisenberg</title><content type='html'>Just watch this video...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="440" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uzELUzfx7oc" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-3554627107364967364?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/3554627107364967364/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=3554627107364967364' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/3554627107364967364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/3554627107364967364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/01/zuckerberg-meets-eisenberg.html' title='Zuckerberg meets Eisenberg'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/uzELUzfx7oc/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-7509023736307595191</id><published>2011-01-19T10:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-01-20T18:45:11.744-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tours lima'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='backpacking lima'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='city tours lima peru'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Attractions in Lima Peru'/><title type='text'>City Tours around Lima</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTi_KbDFb4I/AAAAAAAABO8/p0g16eD54aI/s1600/Pachacamac1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 307px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTi_KbDFb4I/AAAAAAAABO8/p0g16eD54aI/s400/Pachacamac1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564407525396541314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pachacamac temple&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTi_KpPVhiI/AAAAAAAABPE/HkMjmI9ZgM0/s1600/pachacamac2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 312px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTi_KpPVhiI/AAAAAAAABPE/HkMjmI9ZgM0/s400/pachacamac2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564407529206023714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Inka alley, Pachacamac&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lima - Pachacamac - Cañete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I would recommend you to take this tour at the beginning, due to the fact that Cusco and Machu Picchu will be  the best part of your trip, and this could appear desappointing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The trip to the ruins of Pachacamac do not need to be planned as  a solo day trip,on the contrary, it could be part as a daily stage around Lima: For example, in the morning  visit the Archaeological museum, then take  a taxi to Pachacamac from miraflores to Panamaricana Sur.; take lunch and visit the Gold Museum in the afternoon. This creates an interesting round trip, which is to be completed in one day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The complete round - trip with the costs, including agreed waiting times, about 25 to 30 € for three or four travelers which not expensive; but I could take you in my truck for $25  all day .    Individuals take a cheap microbus from Santa Catalina or a colectivo from University Park to Lurin. The trip takes about an hour. Toy have to tell the driver that you only up to the ruins of Pachacamac (and not in the city) so that he stops by the ruins. The ruins are open from 9.00 am to 4.00 pm, and admission costs 1.50 €.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lurin Valley&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pachacamac is located in the Lurin Valley, about 30 km south of Lima. The Lurin Valley, Valle Verde, or the green valley of Lima and is the most scenically and beautiful valley near the main city. In addition to the archaeological (eg Pachacamac) and tourist attractions, the valley represents the best opportunity to enjoy pure air. There are strawberry and corn plantations , many families here live from agriculture. There are festifals like The annual Strawberry - Festival or the famous Fiesta Caballo de Paso in Mamacona centre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTi_rHlo3bI/AAAAAAAABPM/GvEKBRNxStU/s1600/valle%2Bde%2Blurin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTi_rHlo3bI/AAAAAAAABPM/GvEKBRNxStU/s400/valle%2Bde%2Blurin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564408087108443570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lurin Valley&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Oracle of Pachacamac&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pachacamac was since 9th Century, a kind of pilgrimage for all peoples from the coast and the highlands. The place, in the Lurin Valley, was about the same meaning as Delphi for the Greeks. The Oracle (Huaca) of World Creator Pachacamac was asked for any advice. Pilgrims traveled hundreds of miles and took precious votive offerings with their specialties. A big city grew up around the sanctuary, but nothing of this remains. The Inca conquered Pachacamc  in the 15th  century, and built the largest sun temple rising an artificial pyramid. In 1533 the gold-hungry Spaniards stole the graves and golden ornaments around the temple, many of them were a link between Inkas and previous cultures like Tiwanaku culture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTjAmObQhcI/AAAAAAAABPU/GesjQ6IKVVE/s1600/pachacamac%2Btours.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTjAmObQhcI/AAAAAAAABPU/GesjQ6IKVVE/s400/pachacamac%2Btours.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564409102556235202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pachacamac Tour&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is  a small museum at the entrance, in which  we will find the most valuable pieces excavated in 1938, among them the finely crafted wooden pillar of Pachacamac  The wells of the figure were once paved with gold or silver. Also it is shown  ceramics and fabrics. Not far from the museum, there is a semisubterraner, reconstructed complex of buildings,: the Casa de las Mamaconas whose meaning is disputed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next, there is a road leading to a smaller hill on which, Pachacamac - Temple stood. Some remnants of terraces with Berna Lung are well preserved. In front of the viewer there is a powerful artificial hill built on the end of the 15th Century: the Inca sun temple.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the entire complex of ruins are extensive, take a quick walk at least for an hour. If you decide to come with me, we can take a ride  inside the complex.  If you are coming on your own there are  Buses to the center of Lima that can be hailed on the street in front of the ruins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cañete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those who has more time available, there is always the possibility to travel a little further down the Panamericana Sur to the south on another day trip. Past the beaches of Punta Hermosa, Punta Negra, San Bartolo, Santa María, Las Palmas Pucusana and get to Cañete. The town was established about 150 km south of Lima in 1556 by order of the Viceroy Marquez de Cañete..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTjHSZxA9KI/AAAAAAAABQU/et7m-A_l-IE/s1600/cerro%2Bazul%2Bca%25C3%25B1ete.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTjHSZxA9KI/AAAAAAAABQU/et7m-A_l-IE/s400/cerro%2Bazul%2Bca%25C3%25B1ete.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564416458584290466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cañete, Cerro Azul Beach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tour 2: Ruins of Puruchuco - Cajamarquilla - Chosica (Carretera Central)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This trip has an archaeological interest. In order to get to these ruins your should go Lima  Centrre at the corner of Montevideo / Ormeño,  take a colectivo to Chosica. Departures  are between 6.00 a.m. und 21.00 o'clock, whenever the Colectivo is full up, it costs about 1 €. Again, I can guide you around these places for $25, a full day of experiences and new adventures close to Lima.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTjBRzm4K7I/AAAAAAAABPc/c5eQPtXTERE/s1600/puruchuco.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTjBRzm4K7I/AAAAAAAABPc/c5eQPtXTERE/s400/puruchuco.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564409851271457714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Puruchuco Ruins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Puruchuco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Puruchuco is about 7 km away from Lima Centre, taking the Carretera Central, which is going from Lima to the Andes. In Puruchuco we will find ceramics around the corridors and chambers; there is a little museum in which we will find textiles and musical instruments. It is open from Tuesday to Sunday: 9.00 - 17.00, admission cost 1 euro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cajamarquilla&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right after that we go  right to the Hacienda Nievería and the mile in a ruined city behind Cajamaquilla. It is known that this place was an urban center, part of the small kingdom of Cuismancu. The ruins made of adobe consists of three groups of terraces and pyramid-like structures that are riddled with labyrinthine streets. It is open. from Tuesday - Sunday 9-17 clock. € 1.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Chosica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chosica is a nice place in which we will have the opportunity to visit some ruins like the small town of San Juan de Pariache. There are clubs like Hotel El Pueblo or Villa del Sol resort, located 850 meter above the sea level, still close to Lima, enough to run away from the Lima's garúa during winter seassion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTjCfrMdtXI/AAAAAAAABPk/0namJ_eoIzI/s1600/chosica.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 302px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTjCfrMdtXI/AAAAAAAABPk/0namJ_eoIzI/s400/chosica.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564411189042984306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Chosica at night&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTjDK48dyOI/AAAAAAAABPs/nJQg4LKtYyA/s1600/chosica%2Btrip.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTjDK48dyOI/AAAAAAAABPs/nJQg4LKtYyA/s400/chosica%2Btrip.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564411931468351714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tipical street in Chosica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tour 3: Callao, Isla Palomino (Panamericana Norte)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Callao, the biggest and most important port in Peru (600,000 inhabitants)  it is 13 km away  from Lima Centre. Lima and Callao are virtually the same city. The most interesting attraction is the 1774 Fort Real Felipe, which is a Military History Museum (Tue-Thu, Sat, Sun 9 - 12 and 15 - clock 17, admission 2 € for foreigners). Just around the corner is the museum of the Peruvian Navy (closed Mondays).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTjDvjlR9RI/AAAAAAAABP0/G4Y8za6iT0I/s1600/real%2Bfelipe.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 338px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTjDvjlR9RI/AAAAAAAABP0/G4Y8za6iT0I/s400/real%2Bfelipe.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564412561389122834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Real Felipe Fortress&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many buses that lead you to Callao, e.g. Bus 56 from Plaza San Martin, colectivos and taxis (about 2 €) There are many restaurants in calle Constitución,  for more information get in touch with me, luisjesusdc@gmail.com so that we can arrange a city tour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Isla Palomino&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you didn't have the opportunity  to visit the Islas Ballestas Paracas you can take a boat trip out from Callao to Isla Palomino and other offshore islands (including San Lorenzo, Fronton), where there are  many sea birds and sea lions. Boat trips are offered  by Expeditions Viento Sur Av. Grey 885 (la Punta Callao), Tel / Fax 429-1414 and 961-7994 and offered ecocruceros@infonegocio.com.pe. Starts each day and lasts 10.00 am clock from Club Universitario de Regatas La Punta (Callao), it lasts 3 - 4 h.  it costs 25 € per person, or  you can go by sailing boat, it lasts from 4 - 5 hours, 35 € per person There are tours arranged by Adventure Club (tel. 4416536), runs only Saturdays  and Sundays at 9.30 clock, 40 €.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTjEUy0GWgI/AAAAAAAABP8/pDYJIQ5Wbuc/s1600/palomino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 222px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTjEUy0GWgI/AAAAAAAABP8/pDYJIQ5Wbuc/s400/palomino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564413201132968450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Palomino Island&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTjEyacYwzI/AAAAAAAABQE/dLbQuqjMzK4/s1600/isalas%2Bpalomino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 223px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTjEyacYwzI/AAAAAAAABQE/dLbQuqjMzK4/s400/isalas%2Bpalomino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564413709987136306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sea lions at Palomino islands&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other scenic tours are constituded by Lunahuana, Canta, San Pedro de Casta, Caral, etc. If you are interested, please get in touch to me: luisjesusdc@gmail.com - 990558076&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Photos: Flickr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-7509023736307595191?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/7509023736307595191/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=7509023736307595191' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/7509023736307595191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/7509023736307595191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/01/city-tours-around-lima.html' title='City Tours around Lima'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTi_KbDFb4I/AAAAAAAABO8/p0g16eD54aI/s72-c/Pachacamac1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-675171908201837312</id><published>2011-01-14T07:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-01-14T10:19:07.387-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Off Road in Peru'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel peru'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Antioquia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Backpackers and Travelers Peru'/><title type='text'>Adventure close to Lima, Perú, Antioquía by truck</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBSOMJfcYI/AAAAAAAABK8/vv00zFOCJ0g/s1600/mapa2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 227px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBSOMJfcYI/AAAAAAAABK8/vv00zFOCJ0g/s400/mapa2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562035943535243650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Traveling close to Lima give us the opportunity to go up the hills, which is the gate to the  Peruvian Andes, being just 40 minutes away from the sea. It is an adventure you can't avoid, if you are in Lima because we will be in touch with pure air, and beautiful landscapes around our way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This little trip starts in the district of Cieneguilla; just 30 minutes away from Lima centre. Many people do this travel by cycling or trekking; in this way I took my own truck. Doing it by trekking you can take the old Inca Trail that was used by the old empire of Inkas to go from  the city of  Cusco to Pachacamac temple in Lima.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are some archaeological complexes as living memories of the ancient royal trail used by the Emperor when he needed to get some advise from the God Pachacamac. Nowadays we can go into those buidings and try to imagine how was those days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before we get to Antioquia (our final destiny), we will pass little towns like Nieve Nieve and Chontay, places charched of myths and legends. These places are ideal to spend a nice doing camping and buying some handicrafts and local specialities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally we will get to Antioquia town, a colourful place decorated with birds and rainbows painted in every fachade, in every wall. The landscape changed from the desert to a countryside green, which is very good for our souls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBVBU_hH5I/AAAAAAAABM8/TiPWEl_a7bU/s1600/P5160115.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBVBU_hH5I/AAAAAAAABM8/TiPWEl_a7bU/s400/P5160115.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562039021105913746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBUh5aerUI/AAAAAAAABM0/_-ULMjz1XwU/s1600/P5160089.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBUh5aerUI/AAAAAAAABM0/_-ULMjz1XwU/s400/P5160089.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562038481126862146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBUhl90edI/AAAAAAAABMs/HdGwQLPQGnQ/s1600/P5160057.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; 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text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBWyPJqq_I/AAAAAAAABNM/4pIUbWg2-mE/s400/antioquia%2Bmain%2Bsquare.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562040960863087602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBWyMY5LuI/AAAAAAAABNE/-LPcXBWZfYU/s1600/Antioqu%25C3%25ADa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBWyMY5LuI/AAAAAAAABNE/-LPcXBWZfYU/s400/Antioqu%25C3%25ADa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562040960121646818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBY_C8beYI/AAAAAAAABO0/J5SxwaHu9Ks/s1600/Iglesia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBY_C8beYI/AAAAAAAABO0/J5SxwaHu9Ks/s400/Iglesia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562043379947895170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBY_GS28uI/AAAAAAAABOs/vSKDesHnKLE/s1600/Fachada%2BChurch.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBY_GS28uI/AAAAAAAABOs/vSKDesHnKLE/s400/Fachada%2BChurch.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562043380847276770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBY-yLai3I/AAAAAAAABOk/qN28m1oqGvQ/s1600/Fachada2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBY-yLai3I/AAAAAAAABOk/qN28m1oqGvQ/s400/Fachada2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562043375447346034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBY-yVKC_I/AAAAAAAABOc/pPai0zTnBdI/s1600/fachada1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBY-yVKC_I/AAAAAAAABOc/pPai0zTnBdI/s400/fachada1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562043375488207858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBY-l3_V5I/AAAAAAAABOU/PHTgiJJgaCA/s1600/Door.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 336px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBY-l3_V5I/AAAAAAAABOU/PHTgiJJgaCA/s400/Door.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562043372144646034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-675171908201837312?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/675171908201837312/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=675171908201837312' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/675171908201837312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/675171908201837312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/01/adventure-close-to-lima-peru-antioquia.html' title='Adventure close to Lima, Perú, Antioquía by truck'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TTBSOMJfcYI/AAAAAAAABK8/vv00zFOCJ0g/s72-c/mapa2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-354505067448353164</id><published>2011-01-12T07:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-01-12T09:07:33.679-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leisure'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Backpackers and Travelers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='from cuzco to brasil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='adventure'/><title type='text'>Traveling from Cuzco to Brazil</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TS2wDP73vDI/AAAAAAAABKs/Z2ITmWff1g4/s1600/traveling.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TS2wDP73vDI/AAAAAAAABKs/Z2ITmWff1g4/s400/traveling.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561294684736175154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;S&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;ource Flickr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This is a lovely documentary about a travel made by Rafo Leon, host of the peruvian TV Programm called Tiempo de Viaje. In this adventure Rafo León start his adventure in Cusco meeting people and different ways of living; trying to understand the way people from the highlands understand the world and how they show off their traditions and customs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As long as León travel, we will notice how the landscape change into a deep green, full of plants and vegetation, but also with big worries about the forest preservation, and the way people organize themselves to protect their environment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then we will cross the border between Peru and Brazil, and discover a bit of their culture, and that colo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/A4bWcsQQ1C4?hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/A4bWcsQQ1C4?hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/R7J4_RZsTmg?hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/R7J4_RZsTmg?hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-354505067448353164?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/354505067448353164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=354505067448353164' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/354505067448353164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/354505067448353164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/01/traveling-from-cuzco-to-brazil.html' title='Traveling from Cuzco to Brazil'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TS2wDP73vDI/AAAAAAAABKs/Z2ITmWff1g4/s72-c/traveling.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-52573352192990280</id><published>2011-01-11T08:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-01-11T14:43:05.502-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cusco nightlife'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pubs in cusco'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='places to go in cusco'/><title type='text'>How is the Nightlife in Cusco?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TSyyPgqKOhI/AAAAAAAABKc/ygennQ1aS44/s1600/cusco%2Bnight2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 195px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TSyyPgqKOhI/AAAAAAAABKc/ygennQ1aS44/s400/cusco%2Bnight2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561015619430267410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Nightlife in Cuzco is really magic thanks to the mystisism scattered around its old buidings and beautiful streets. There are legends almost everywhere, and that combination between Andean and Spanish traditions give a special environment to the night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TSyyPz1nHOI/AAAAAAAABKk/IIYBx23BL1o/s1600/cusco%2Bnight3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TSyyPz1nHOI/AAAAAAAABKk/IIYBx23BL1o/s400/cusco%2Bnight3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561015624578571490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's why nightlife in Cusco is special. There is always something new, new people and new advetures can be found in their several pubs and clubs around the main square. Those clubs offer a wide variety of drinks and music, as well as salsa lessons for foreigners keen on this spicy dance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TSyxoosqeWI/AAAAAAAABKU/H8lX2S0eU9U/s1600/noche%2Bcusco.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 228px; height: 163px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TSyxoosqeWI/AAAAAAAABKU/H8lX2S0eU9U/s400/noche%2Bcusco.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561014951573354850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here I'd like to show you a video made by the Peruvian University of San Martín de Porres, that deals with this thrilling experience, lets check it out!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yDMwhHg2q8U?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yDMwhHg2q8U?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-52573352192990280?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/52573352192990280/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=52573352192990280' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/52573352192990280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/52573352192990280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-is-nightlife-in-cusco.html' title='How is the Nightlife in Cusco?'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TSyyPgqKOhI/AAAAAAAABKc/ygennQ1aS44/s72-c/cusco%2Bnight2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-5664349757288386025</id><published>2011-01-10T15:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-01-10T15:23:01.447-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='off topic'/><title type='text'>One year in two minutes</title><content type='html'>I'd like to share with you this interesting video made by E&lt;a href="http://eirikso.com/"&gt;irikso.com&lt;/a&gt; very curious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="440"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KkY3JGDqMT8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KkY3JGDqMT8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="440"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-5664349757288386025?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/5664349757288386025/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=5664349757288386025' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/5664349757288386025'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/5664349757288386025'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/01/one-year-in-two-minutes.html' title='One year in two minutes'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-3341210523798831134</id><published>2011-01-10T07:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-01-10T09:26:29.749-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Peru beaches'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Miraflores beaches'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Asia Boulevard'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='surfing classes'/><title type='text'>Everything is better by the sea</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TSsMMe-SAZI/AAAAAAAABKM/UnFUPpXiPU4/s1600/sunset.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TSsMMe-SAZI/AAAAAAAABKM/UnFUPpXiPU4/s400/sunset.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560551573531263378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;One of the best things about summer in Peru is going to our lovely beaches as much as possible.  Against many other points of view I strongly believe that the best ones are located in Northen Peru. in Lima people have the opportunity to spend a good time at the seaside. In Lima, we have the Costa Verde, which is a circuit of beaches 30 minutes away from Lima centre. Those ones are nice, but during high session they could be overcrowded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Miraflores people learn surfing, those classes are given by some "schools" scatered at the seaside and many tourists come together to enjoy the waves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then you can take some sea food, which is one the the best in the world! There are some restaurants by the seaside you can go and try these delicious dishes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TSsK6xllj9I/AAAAAAAABKE/0xUdF6Uf_m8/s1600/P1020016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 312px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TSsK6xllj9I/AAAAAAAABKE/0xUdF6Uf_m8/s400/P1020016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560550169778687954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;La Herradura Beach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many people are used to going to to southern beaches such as San Bartolo, Punta Hermoza, El Silencio, Asia, etc. They are at least 1 hour away from lima centre, although they are less overcrowded, but still expensive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TSsK6SobZUI/AAAAAAAABJ0/Tt7Z1jIrn_Y/s1600/playa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TSsK6SobZUI/AAAAAAAABJ0/Tt7Z1jIrn_Y/s400/playa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560550161469105474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Makaja Beach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uQJ62mCe8F0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uQJ62mCe8F0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TSsK6nHRweI/AAAAAAAABJ8/3CA0Qm9TM4M/s1600/rosa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TSsK6nHRweI/AAAAAAAABJ8/3CA0Qm9TM4M/s400/rosa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560550166967206370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rosa Nautica Restaurant&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rTKoUXoA0bk?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rTKoUXoA0bk?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-3341210523798831134?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/3341210523798831134/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=3341210523798831134' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/3341210523798831134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/3341210523798831134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2011/01/everything-is-better-by-sea.html' title='Everything is better by the sea'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TSsMMe-SAZI/AAAAAAAABKM/UnFUPpXiPU4/s72-c/sunset.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-3035448631278438846</id><published>2010-12-13T19:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-12-13T19:36:10.742-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Puno Peru'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Backpackers and Travelers Peru'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='go to Puno'/><title type='text'>Puno Peru</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="width:680px;padding:0;margin:0;border:none;background:#000 url(http://tripwow.tripadvisor.com/tripwow/ta-00c0-3192-f497/e/94d06b8da1/bg)0 0 no-repeat"&gt;&lt;embed width="680" height="425" these="" are="" some="" pictures="" about="" my="" travel="" to="" puno="" is="" a="" very="" nice="" place="" where="" you="" will="" enjoy="" and="" feel="" the="" nature="" in="" whole="" way="" i="" strongly="" recommend="" go="" taquile="" magic="" that="" let="" watch="" milky="" at="" src="http://images.travelpod.com/bin/tripwow/flash/tripwow.swf" flashvars="xmlPath=http%3A%2F%2Ftripwow.tripadvisor.com%2Ftripwow%2Fta-00c0-3192-f497%2Fapxml%3Fed%3D94d06b8da1%26ref%3D" base="http://images.travelpod.com/bin/tripwow/flash/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" name="TripWow" wmode="opaque" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;!-- Use of this widget is subject to the terms stated here: http://tripwow.tripadvisor.com/tripwow/widget_terms.html --&gt;&lt;div style="width:680px;padding:0;margin:0;border:none;background:#fff;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#999;text-align:justify;font-size:9px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tripwow.tripadvisor.com/tripwow/ta-00c0-3192-f497" style="color:#c60"&gt;Puno - Perú Slideshow&lt;/a&gt;: Andean’s trip from &lt;a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g294316-Lima-Vacations.html" style="color:#c60"&gt;Lima&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g294311-Peru-Vacations.html" style="color:#c60"&gt;Peru&lt;/a&gt; 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Create a free &lt;a href="http://tripwow.tripadvisor.com/" style="color:#c60"&gt;slideshow with music&lt;/a&gt; from your travel photos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-3035448631278438846?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/3035448631278438846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=3035448631278438846' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/3035448631278438846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/3035448631278438846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/12/puno-peru.html' title='Puno Peru'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-1190280621079603661</id><published>2010-12-09T09:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-12-09T10:08:39.176-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Backpackers and Travelers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Machu Picchu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cuzco'/><title type='text'>Cusco and Machu Picchu Images</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hello I'd like to share with you some images from my travel to Cusco, Peru. Whenever you come to this land you have to take account the there a many things to see and enjoy and it is probably that you would miss some of them if you just come some few days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As always I say, there are three ways to get to Machu Micchu, by Inka Trail, train and through the circuit Santa María - Santa Teresa - Machu Picchu distrct - Aguas Calientes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course your travel will be an unforgetable experience due to those marvelous landscapes in which Incas used to live. Hey if you need some further information about the travel just let me know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YgSxP1rwIWc" frameborder="0" height="390" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-1190280621079603661?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/1190280621079603661/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=1190280621079603661' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1190280621079603661'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1190280621079603661'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/12/cusco-and-machu-picchu-images.html' title='Cusco and Machu Picchu Images'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/YgSxP1rwIWc/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-2755988703666225487</id><published>2010-11-06T15:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-11-06T15:59:50.322-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inca Trail'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Backpackers and Travelers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The North Face'/><title type='text'>The Noth Face - In Search of Shangri La</title><content type='html'>This is a great video by The North Face, it would be a very nice idea to do something similar in the Peruvian Andes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="440"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vmD2LtlYKT8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vmD2LtlYKT8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="440"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-2755988703666225487?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/2755988703666225487/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=2755988703666225487' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/2755988703666225487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/2755988703666225487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/11/noth-face-in-search-of-shangri-la.html' title='The Noth Face - In Search of Shangri La'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-4609979934277182985</id><published>2010-10-11T23:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-10-11T23:53:22.903-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Branding'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Internal Communications'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Human Resources'/><title type='text'>5 tips to set up an internal communications office</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TLPpENHI-aI/AAAAAAAABBE/TdDuUBwOU7A/s1600/comunicaciones_internas+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TLPpENHI-aI/AAAAAAAABBE/TdDuUBwOU7A/s400/comunicaciones_internas+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527017426162088354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Visit:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.durandcomunicaciones.blospot.com"&gt;Durand Comunicaciones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TLPpELKiKsI/AAAAAAAABA8/FWeybVzYXTM/s1600/003BannerDURANDCOM.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 127px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TLPpELKiKsI/AAAAAAAABA8/FWeybVzYXTM/s400/003BannerDURANDCOM.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527017425639451330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Many organizations try to organize and develop an integrated work related with internal communications, which must be conducted by a sensitive and experienced skilled professional, able to plan a project based on measurable goals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But ¿which must be the main tips to set up an internal communications office?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To set up an internal communications office, Previously, it had to be necessary to identify an organizational problem. Anything that motivates the Board, to set up internal channels of communication, able to generate cohesion and a powerful organizational culture, at least it should be its mission.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some organizations, moreover those multinational ones, have already a tradition on recruiting well skilled communication professionals, but on the other hand, the rest of local businesses tend to consider internal communications as a esoteric issue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1)Introduce the Idea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the main promoters and sponsors of an office related with internal communications must be the Human Resource Manager. He should be the main concerned in developing specialized channels that make him able to take the correct decisions. The Human Resource Management should, not only, be encharged of operative tasks, but to take the leadership of the strategy to strength the corporative culture. The HR Manager, is who should get the idea and introduce it to the Board.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think that the idea must be introduced in organizational levels, I mean, How the organization would be with an internal communication office working, and how would it be without it? How much resources would the project need, in relation with the final outcome? How much would the project save for the company?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is always a good idea to introduce a project showing its economic advantages. A businessman needs to buy anything profitable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2)Recruiting the correct professional&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not easy to get the right one. Well experienced and skilled enough to develop such a project. The project will demand a professional, with not only communication knowledge, but with a background that let him understand the social, cultural and economic reality, not only in national terms, but international terms too. Am I asking a lot? Come on! He is the man who will motivate the human resources at the organization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another important issue is related with the professional's previous experience. I mean Can a retail experienced professional can do it in industrial level? Can A professional who worked for a fast food, develop a successful experience in mining sector? Obviously those are elements necessary to take account.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;3)Planning the office&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This issue is vey importan and depend on the business necessities. Particularly, I point out that a communication project must be strongly oriented to quantified outcomes, based on a solid structure. I desagree with those ideas that consider communications as a source of entertainment for workers, this is an incorrect way of seeing organizational communications development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this level it is necessary an internal research, I mean to apply focus groups, inteviews and surveys among workers. Also, It's very important to listen to people around, in the canteen for example. A good communicator will notice those details that enable him to design his communication project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A communication office has to define its mission and vission, to set its goals and indicators.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;4)Resources&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The resources that will manage the internal communications office must be approved by the Board, though previously worked by the new internal communications head and the Human Resources Manager. They should have based the project in the current business situation and that will give them a glimpse of those human, economic and material necessary resources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;5)Lauching internal branding&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since I am an advocate and practitioner of internal branding, I see workers as real internal customers who try to satisfy their effective and real information necessity, and in change they will adopt some kind of behaviour wished by the company. That's why I believe that it is necessary to develop an internal communications brand that focus the main communications k-drivers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I undestand k-drivers as those elements that define the internal brand in people's mind&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets take account that internal communications function is a facilitator for the company. Its main targets are the managers, who need fresh internal trends to take decisions later.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-4609979934277182985?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/4609979934277182985/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=4609979934277182985' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/4609979934277182985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/4609979934277182985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/10/5-tips-to-set-up-internal.html' title='5 tips to set up an internal communications office'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TLPpENHI-aI/AAAAAAAABBE/TdDuUBwOU7A/s72-c/comunicaciones_internas+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-1044257495152172441</id><published>2010-10-09T21:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-10-09T23:57:01.887-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Adventure in Lima'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sightseeing in Lima'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Backpackers and Travelers Peru'/><title type='text'>Traveling around Lima, a new alternative</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TLFD0TB3E-I/AAAAAAAABAc/NuEfSEwxTsI/s1600/Cerca+del+Rio+Lur%C3%ADn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TLFD0TB3E-I/AAAAAAAABAc/NuEfSEwxTsI/s400/Cerca+del+Rio+Lur%C3%ADn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526272783500645346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Adventure is always close to you if you want. Even more if you are coming to Perú. Usually, when people come to Lima as tourists, they spend just some time visiting Miraflores, Lima Centre and Pachacamac Temple; but there are many other interesting and beautiful places to see and visit. Here I want you to know some other places you can go for if you have some time and a good guide book.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the valley of Lima you have three main rivers. Rimac River, Santa Eulalia River, Mala River and Lurin River; among them there are little towns and beautiful landscapes, just 45 minutes away from Lima Centre. Places full of history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The travel begins in Cieneguilla, which is 20 minutes away from Lima. In which you will find an archaeological complex that belongs to Ychma culture (1100 bc).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After that you will have the opportunity find a nice restaurant with local dishes  like pachamanca or ceviche.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TLFD0KeQdbI/AAAAAAAABAU/197RlZPXUmI/s1600/Huaican-cieneguilla.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 194px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TLFD0KeQdbI/AAAAAAAABAU/197RlZPXUmI/s400/Huaican-cieneguilla.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526272781203830194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the town of Nieve Nieve you will find lovely painted facades. Lovely multi coloured houses decorated by artists from Lima.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="505"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KGjnFeoq-tk?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KGjnFeoq-tk?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="505"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="505"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4kUMVYxi7Sc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4kUMVYxi7Sc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="505"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-1044257495152172441?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/1044257495152172441/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=1044257495152172441' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1044257495152172441'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1044257495152172441'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/10/traveling-around-lima-new-alternative.html' title='Traveling around Lima, a new alternative'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TLFD0TB3E-I/AAAAAAAABAc/NuEfSEwxTsI/s72-c/Cerca+del+Rio+Lur%C3%ADn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-5362583555130149577</id><published>2010-09-20T06:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-09-20T07:00:40.896-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='postales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Postales movie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='movies in Machu Picchu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='peruvian movies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gringa the movie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gringa'/><title type='text'>Movies filmend in Cusco</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TJdJeSdelRI/AAAAAAAAA-A/l35SXjauaRo/s1600/Postales_movie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 220px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TJdJeSdelRI/AAAAAAAAA-A/l35SXjauaRo/s400/Postales_movie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518960653066212626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This year many Peruvian movies were released to the international maket. The only difference compared to other peruvian movies is that these two ones were filmenfd completely in Cuzco with some foreigner cooperation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In both stories, intercultural relationships beetwen  Peruvian and gringas are importan part of the plot. Landscapes are  very important too, and give colour to the plot. Here you can see some trailers about that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="553" height="505"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/n7LAvu1cxvU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/n7LAvu1cxvU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="553" height="505"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="553" height="505"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fWkOb8PzVkU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fWkOb8PzVkU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="553" height="505"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-5362583555130149577?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/5362583555130149577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=5362583555130149577' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/5362583555130149577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/5362583555130149577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/09/movies-filmend-in-cusco.html' title='Movies filmend in Cusco'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TJdJeSdelRI/AAAAAAAAA-A/l35SXjauaRo/s72-c/Postales_movie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-323655083160664203</id><published>2010-09-18T12:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-09-18T13:34:13.215-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alternative to Inka Trail'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='santa teresa - santa maría - machu picchu'/><title type='text'>Peru congress approves construction of highway to Machu Picchu</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TJUFTgbjUxI/AAAAAAAAA94/vrgTVDV8kVw/s1600/11+MP.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TJUFTgbjUxI/AAAAAAAAA94/vrgTVDV8kVw/s400/11+MP.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518322751093560082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This is a good news because it will be a cheaper alternative to get to the ruins of Machu Picchu in Cuzco Perú. Some years ago I had the opportunity to get to the ruins through the way Santa María - Santa Teresa - Machu Picchu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=IRiyCZ3/reY="&gt;Vía Andina&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Peruvian congress officially passed the law stating that the Machu Picchu – Santa Teresa – Santa Maria highway construction is of public necessity and priority national interest, and approved a proposal to conduct studies at Santa Teresa - Mollepata road.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Law No. 29584 was published in El Peruano official gazette and signed by the Congress President Jorge Zumaeta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The project of the Machu Picchu-Santa Teresa-Santa Maria highway was unanimously approved by the congress on September 9th.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The highway will become an alternative route to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, currently accessible only by train or by a multi day hike on the Inca Trail.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-323655083160664203?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/323655083160664203/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=323655083160664203' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/323655083160664203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/323655083160664203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/09/peru-congress-approves-construction-of.html' title='Peru congress approves construction of highway to Machu Picchu'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TJUFTgbjUxI/AAAAAAAAA94/vrgTVDV8kVw/s72-c/11+MP.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-6966306089003133186</id><published>2010-09-18T10:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-09-18T12:37:12.602-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sightseeing in Lima'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chorrillos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='City of Lima'/><title type='text'>Spring is coming to Lima</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TJTijQIKCyI/AAAAAAAAA9g/HQMYRWrBKF0/s1600/P9240186.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TJTijQIKCyI/AAAAAAAAA9g/HQMYRWrBKF0/s400/P9240186.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518284538688178978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Yesterday I had the opportunity to work as a tourist guide for a day. A Venezuelan girl came to Peru to spend some days in this city, and after go sightseeing we ended watching this lovely sunset I wanted to share with you. These pictures were taken in the southern district of Chorrillos 30 minutes away from Lima Centre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not many people in Lima appreciate how lucky we are to have the beach close to the city, the fact that anyone can walk along the shore and enjoy simple things like this powerful sunset.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since Spring is just around the corner, here in Lima the sun is shining frecuently, and this improve the people's mood. Nothing's better that try a delicious cebiche by the beach with some cold beers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our tour was Lima centre, some museums and churches, a cebichería called Puerto Esondido and funally the Beach of Pescadores in Chorrillos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TJTijG8LYnI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/E1aCmMIQwGI/s1600/P9240183.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TJTijG8LYnI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/E1aCmMIQwGI/s400/P9240183.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518284536222016114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TJTgtcKQQXI/AAAAAAAAA9Q/0g5OPVwXzRs/s1600/P9240184.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TJTgtcKQQXI/AAAAAAAAA9Q/0g5OPVwXzRs/s400/P9240184.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518282514693636466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TJT3Aax-F_I/AAAAAAAAA9w/igRBSImEX_4/s1600/P9240187.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TJT3Aax-F_I/AAAAAAAAA9w/igRBSImEX_4/s400/P9240187.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518307029996673010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TJT3ABlpjXI/AAAAAAAAA9o/nA1sptFlrG8/s1600/P9240180.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TJT3ABlpjXI/AAAAAAAAA9o/nA1sptFlrG8/s400/P9240180.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518307023234108786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-6966306089003133186?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/6966306089003133186/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=6966306089003133186' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/6966306089003133186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/6966306089003133186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/09/spring-is-coming-to-lima.html' title='Spring is coming to Lima'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TJTijQIKCyI/AAAAAAAAA9g/HQMYRWrBKF0/s72-c/P9240186.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-1969785336025546869</id><published>2010-09-06T08:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-09-06T08:56:50.825-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Internal Communications'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deloitte'/><title type='text'>La Comunicación Interna en Deloitte</title><content type='html'>&lt;meta equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;&lt;meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.2  (Win32)"&gt;&lt;style type="text/css"&gt; 	&lt;!-- 		@page { margin: 2cm } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } 	--&lt;/style&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;El posicionamiento de la marca Deloitte entre todos sus profesionales constituye una parte importante de la estrategia de comunicación de la firma. En Deloitte se desarrollan continuamente nuevos canales e iniciativas para obtener una mayor eficacia en la transmisión de la información interna.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;Por la propia naturaleza de los servicios que presta Deloitte (auditoría, consultoría, asesoramiento fiscal y legal, asesoramiento en transacciones) la mayoría de sus profesionales pasan gran parte de su tiempo en los clientes, por lo que una comunicación interna eficaz es absolutamente fundamental. No sólo en lo que se refiere a la información práctica (cursos de formación, herramientas de gestión interna, novedades…) sino también a la hora de compartir los valores de la firma, conocer las mejores prácticas de otros países, etc…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;Deloitte cuenta con una estrategia de comunicación interna muy definida y estructurada en varios tipos:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Comunicación de liderazgo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt; (efectuada por diferentes responsables de la firma como el presidente, los socios responsables de líneas de servicio o áreas geográficas, etc)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Comunicación de negocio&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt; (lanzamiento de nuevos servicios, logro de nuevos clientes, innovación, etc)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Comunicación de recursos humanos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt; (formación, reclutamiento, acción social, club deportivo, etc.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Comunicación de marca&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt; (eventos organizados/patrocinados por la firma, apariciones destacadas en prensa, etc.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;Además, se utilizan numerosos canales de comunicación interna (tanto digitales, como en papel, como a través de reuniones y encuentros), buscando siempre la mayor efectividad de los mensajes. Por poner algunos ejemplos, todos los profesionales de Deloitte reciben semanalmente una comunicación electrónica multimedia con las principales noticias sobre la firma que se han producido durante esos días. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;Reciben cada tres meses la revista interna “Punto de Vista”, donde se recogen periódicamente reportajes y noticias sobre la firma (en España y en todo el mundo), no sólo de negocio, sino también de acción social, responsabilidad social corporativa, participación de los equipos deportivos de Deloitte en diferentes torneos, etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;Aparate de la comunicación interna dirigida a todos los profesionales de la firma, Deloitte cuenta con canales específicos para las diferentes líneas de servicio e industrias (newsletters, boletines, vídeos…) en los que se recogen aspectos más concretos de determinadas áreas de negocio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;Para su comunicación interna Deloitte utiliza numerosos soportes, y hace un uso destacado de los vídeos, un formato que se utiliza con muchos y muy diversos objetivos: formación, divulgación de comunicados del presidente…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Encuesta para medir la eficacia de la comunicación interna&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TITn0co32NI/AAAAAAAAA8I/WPK4yZYpw48/s1600/deloitte.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TITn0co32NI/AAAAAAAAA8I/WPK4yZYpw48/s400/deloitte.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513786732035168466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;En Deloitte se realiza periódicamente una encuesta interna, con el objetivo de comprobar el grado de satisfacción de los profesionales con la comunicación interna que reciben y con los canales utilizados. En este estudio se pretende conocer tres grandes bloques de información. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;En primer lugar, si los profesionales de la firma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; tienen un conocimiento adecuado de la realidad de la firma&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt; (áreas de actividad, negocio, servicios…). &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;En segundo lugar, si la información que ofrecen los canales de comunicación que se están utilizando actualmente es valorada positivamente. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;Por último, la encuesta busca conocer cómo encaja la comunicación interna en el día a día de los trabajadores y cómo valoran estos la información que reciben. La última encuesta fue completada por más de 400 profesionales y el análisis de sus respuestas permitió obtener una serie de conclusiones que se están utilizando para mejorar la comunicación interna.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;Por un lado, los profesionales de Deloitte tienen un grado de conocimiento de la firma notable. Cuanto mayor es la valoración de conocimiento de la firma, mayor es también la satisfacción que se tiene con la información recibida, y más informado se siente el personal. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;Por otro lado, se constató que en líneas generales existe una satisfacción media alta con los canales de comunicación actuales (3,58 sobre 5), siendo la información de la Intranet española la más valorada, seguida de los comunicados corporativos y de la revista interna. Sólo un 1% de los encuestados manifestó que prescindiría de la Intranet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;En cuanto a los soportes preferidos para recibir la información, los profesionales de Deloitte prefieren el formato e-mail (59,4%) frente a la Intranet (35,7%) y el papel (14%).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;La comunicación interna en el incendio del Windsor&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;El sábado 12 de febrero de 2005, hacia las 23:30 horas, la sede de Deloitte en Madrid, situada en el edificio Windsor, sufrió un incendio que afectó a 28 de las 30 plantas del inmueble. 20 de dichas plantas estaban ocupadas por Deloitte, lo que afectó a 1.600 empleados de la firma, durante la temporada alta de auditoría. (el 31 de marzo es la fecha tope para que las empresas cotizadas presenten sus estados financieros)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;La desaparición del edificio suponía afrontar una multitud de riesgos relacionados con los empleados de Deloitte. Los más importantes eran:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;- Posibilidad de víctimas en el incendio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;- Sin edificio o sede, la firma deja de existir. (efecto icono)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;- Posibilidad de despidos, de retrasos en el cobro de las nóminas,…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;- Pérdida de información básica y necesaria para la realización de los trabajos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;- Traslado de la sede al extrarradio de Madrid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;La estrategia de la comunicación de crisis se condujo en relación a los riesgos apuntados a medida que éstos se hacían más o menos patentes y fue variando en intensidad y contenido durante las dos o tres semanas en las que se desarrollaron acciones del plan de crisis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;En los primeros diez días tras el incendio y de forma paulatina se dio respuesta a todos y cada uno de los principales interrogantes que hubieran podido surgirles a los empleados:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;- Inexistencia de víctimas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;- Continuidad de la actividad normal de negocio desde el primer día&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;- No hubo despidos ni retrasos en el cobro de las nóminas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;- Gracias a sistemas de seguridad como los backups externos y la bunkerización del CPD (Centro de Proceso de Datos), no se perdió información de clientes necesaria para la realización de los trabajos de auditoría.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;- Permanencia de la sede en el centro de Madrid.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;Las mayores dificultades para hacer fluir la información se produjeron los primeros días por la falta de medios tecnológicos, de manera que se pasó de una comunicación tradicional, al principio, a una comunicación más sofisticada, a medida que se iban recuperando las herramientas tecnológicas (email, intranet, web, etc.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;La tradicional “comunicación descendente” o “en cascada” y un teléfono de atención al empleado sirvieron para que el lunes, menos de 48 horas después del incendio, la casi totalidad de los 1.600 empleados de la oficina de Madrid supieran qué tenían que hacer y dónde dirigirse. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;Posteriormente, el e-mail y la intranet fueron los medios más usados. Otros hechos destacados en la gestión de la de la comunicación interna durante la crisis fueron las siguientes:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;- Se rompió la 1ª regla de Comunicación Interna: “Los empleados no deben enterarse nunca por los medios de las cosas que pasen en la empresa”. En este caso se aprovechó la potencia de los medios de comunicación para una mayor difusión de los mensajes. (“si lo dice la tele, será verdad”)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic,sans-serif;"&gt;- Importancia de la comunicación emocional; encuentro de empleados de la oficina de Madrid (El CEO frente a todos con apoyo de videos testimoniales)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TIToxzKO1oI/AAAAAAAAA8Q/-Qs-zjtQ8PE/s1600/Deloitte+people+durand+comunicaciones.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TIToxzKO1oI/AAAAAAAAA8Q/-Qs-zjtQ8PE/s400/Deloitte+people+durand+comunicaciones.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513787786052687490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-1969785336025546869?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/1969785336025546869/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=1969785336025546869' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1969785336025546869'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/1969785336025546869'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/09/la-comunicacion-interna-en-deloitte.html' title='La Comunicación Interna en Deloitte'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TITn0co32NI/AAAAAAAAA8I/WPK4yZYpw48/s72-c/deloitte.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-4535535734308935579</id><published>2010-08-13T16:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-08-13T16:57:35.105-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Literatura'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Flora Carvalho'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Antonieto Arrieta dreams'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Crónicas Perversas'/><title type='text'>Crónicas Perversas - Crónica II El Encuentro</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Esta es una nueva crónica del ciclo de Crónicas Perversas, que inició con la historia de Erótico Tanática de Antonieto Arrieta. Hoy él nos cuenta más sobre Flora, mientras recuerda la forma cómo la conoció, y nos revela algunos detalles que rodean la vida de este furtivo amor, antes de viajar a Boston&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="View Cronicas Perversas El Encuentro on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/35860533/Cronicas-Perversas-El-Encuentro" style="margin: 12px auto 6px; font: 14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; display: block; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Cronicas Perversas El Encuentro&lt;/a&gt; &lt;object id="doc_56262062422506" name="doc_56262062422506" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" style="outline: medium none;" rel="media:document" resource="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=35860533&amp;amp;access_key=key-2bp9nnxdxyws5jjjevuz&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;viewMode=list" media="http://search.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/media/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" width="100%" height="500"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf"&gt; &lt;param name="wmode" value="opaque"&gt; &lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"&gt; &lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt; &lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt; &lt;param name="FlashVars" value="document_id=35860533&amp;amp;access_key=key-2bp9nnxdxyws5jjjevuz&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;viewMode=list"&gt; &lt;embed id="doc_56262062422506" name="doc_56262062422506" src="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=35860533&amp;amp;access_key=key-2bp9nnxdxyws5jjjevuz&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;viewMode=list" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="100%" height="500"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;¿Se puede ser un aspirante a la felicidad siendo más bien un asistente aplicado de la tragedia? ¿Se puede engañar y embaucar constantemente a la verdad, para ser un torpe y voluntario  invento pérfido y sin gracia?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sí se puede, y lo compruebo día a día, lo veo aquí y allá. Pero sí tuviera que encarnar aquello que veo cada mañana en sólo una persona, esa desgraciada alma sería la de  Flora Carbalho.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flora es toda ella un misterioso acertijo, una subrepticia adivinanza tapizada barrocamente de superficiales lecturas, poses estudiadas y una lascivia sin prohibiciones morales. Ni siquiera ella misma sabría decir de qué puerto provienen sus navíos, ni qué bandera flameaba en su azotado existir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ella, su nombre, sus emociones y su vida fueron quince primeros años de falsedades consuetudinarias; ambivalencias que llegaron a su fin con un viaje y una revelación.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fueron pues, las playas  de Santa Guadalupe del Embarcadero, escenario teatral de sus primeros arrebatos adolescentes:  furtivos marinos, hijos de familias notables (y no tan notables), deportistas y pequeños escritores quienes incendiaron por primera vez las praderas inmaculadas  de su morena piel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Curiosa e intuitiva, supo ser buena amante de sus amamantes.  Fue una brillante  amante. Fue mi amante. Y sí que lo fue. Y aún lo es. Lo sigue siendo. Hasta cuando me escribe dejándome cartas con mensajes subrepticios, por debajo de mi puerta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es mi amante hoy, como lo fue en el pasado. Es mi amante a solas y frente a su dolorosamente aburrido novio. Es mi amante, de día y en la penumbra de su cuarto al que me sé depositar a escondidas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Miro el anchuroso mar, acoplado ya en el vapor que me lleva rumbo a Boston y no hago más que recordar a Flora. Sus traviesos arrebatos en casa de sus padres, que son en verdad sus abuelos. Sus inocentes historias de perversos finales y esa necesidad clamorosa de agradarme, de retribuirme de alguna forma. Aún cuando siempre la supe digna de mis mayores desconfianzas, Flora fue siempre una luchadora en la guerra por conquistar parcelas efímeras de mis afectos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo cierto es que sus propios conflictos existenciales no hacían sino espantarme. Y debo decir además que nunca satisfizo  mis más sutiles deseos estéticos. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conocí a Flora, un poco de casualidad en el segundo piso de un pequeño bar   frente al mar, durante una accidental visita a playa Hermoza, una porción de litoral al sur de Santa Guadalupe del Embarcadero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flora acompañaba a su familia en una improvisada tertulia en torno a una mesa roja de plástico acrílico. Sobre ella, botellas de cerveza y canchita servidas, que matizaban una conversación sobre fútbol y comentarios políticos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En la mesa se encontraba el dipsómano padre de Flora: don Germán; sus tíos Hector y Ramón; su tía Vicky; y sus abuelos Benjamín y Ernestina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aquella vez, subí  a tomar un trago con mi viejo amigo, Elton, quien vivía en playa Hernoza, aunque no en la el área residencial, sino más bien cerca del barrio de pescadores. Nos ubicamos cerca de la mesa familiar de Flora con el ánimo de tener una vista privilegiada a la playa y al mar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De inmediato, note la mirada lujuriosa y libertina de la traviesa Flora apuntándome decididamente como lo haría un poderoso reflector a la escena de una obra. Sin ella ser muy guapa, me llamó la atención la fuerza de sus negros ojos, de tal forma que me hacía perder el  interés en la conversación de Elton.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fueron cuarenta minutos de miradas mordaces y furtivas, ahogados en cerveza; que lo único que hacía era generar una combustión morbosa en mi mente. Me paré de la silla de plástico, típica de estos antros, miré a Flora con un rictus complice y bajé al primer piso a comprar un cigarro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sólo treinta segundos luego de bajar al primer piso del local, donde funcionaba una pequeña bodega, bajó Flora. Nos miramos e inmediatamente después que ella pidiera unas galletas me presenté sin más.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soy Antonieto, ¿Cómo estás? - Dije de forma apurada.&lt;br /&gt;Me llamo Flora – me respondió sonriendo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fue una presentación, que en realidad parecía protocolar, por el sólo hecho de seguir una formalidad social, un ritual administrativo simple que nos abriría las puertas al presentimiento de una aventura. Ambos teníamos claro lo que queríamos del otro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si quieres salimos un momento – le dije apresurado por el alcohol que motivaba mis audacias.&lt;br /&gt;Vamos, allí arriba mi familia tiene para rato, y quisiera sentir la brisa del mar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En ese momento olvide que tenía a mi amigo esperando arriba, y me dejé llevar por mis malsanas intenciones liberadas por las cuatro botellas de cerveza que habíamos tomado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Podemos conversar en las rocas – me dijo ella.&lt;br /&gt;Si, claro vamos, adentro el lugar no está muy ventilado – dije yo procurando buscar un pretexto que mantuviera la secuencia de una conversación, sin que mis reales intenciones sean tan obvias.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flora era una morena, no muy curvilínea aunque muy esmerada en atraer al genero masculino; a lo mejor esa actitud hizo que desde joven mantuviera tormentosos y fugaces romances con efebos tropicales acaecidos en la playa en temporada de verano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Al acercarnos a la peña rocosa, a unos cincuenta metros del bar, Flora iba preguntándome si vivía cerca. Le respondí que sólo había ido a visitar a un amigo. Ella volvía a preguntar, en este caso, a qué me dedicaba; le respondí que estudiaba, aunque no en el país; sino en Boston. Nuevamente, Flora siguió inquisitiva, mostrando cierto interés en saber más de mi. El ambiente se iba rodeando mucho más de la humedad marina, a medida que nos acercabamos al mar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La brisa hacía natural binomio con rumor de las olas, y nuevamente recordé a Morgana y nuestros paseos, esta vez en la tropical playa de Puerto Madero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ya sentados en un de las rocas del rompeolas de la playa, miraba atento el rostro de Flora, y mientras me hablaba de su vida universitaria sentía que el frío disminuía  la  efervescente motivación alcohólica que me invadía, con lo que reparaba en las imperfecciones del rostro de Flora.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acepto que no me interesaba la conversación que Flora quería desarrollar conmigo, por lo que hice mi primera incursión al tomarla de la mano. Sus manos eran suaves, lo que me hizo pensar que Flora, de unos veintidós años no solía hacía ningún tipo de actividad manual. Ella no protesto y en cambio se acercó a mi.  Aproveché el momento para abrazarla. Voltee su rostro al mío, y sin mediar resistencia de su parte, la besé sin recato. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aquel sería el preludio de una relación que se extendería por unos nueve meses, hasta hoy que me voy a Boston a encontrarme con mi bella Morgana, dueña única de mis pasiones.  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-4535535734308935579?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/4535535734308935579/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=4535535734308935579' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/4535535734308935579'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/4535535734308935579'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/08/cronicas-perversas-cronica-ii-el.html' title='Crónicas Perversas - Crónica II El Encuentro'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-8962163271981934826</id><published>2010-08-12T09:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-08-12T10:34:26.525-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='City of Lima'/><title type='text'>Some Urban Pictures of Lima 1996</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQJIY3R4UI/AAAAAAAAA7c/_-Cua_OpCw8/s1600/Urbana11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 276px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQJIY3R4UI/AAAAAAAAA7c/_-Cua_OpCw8/s400/Urbana11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504534684271501634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In 1996 I was studying at San Marcos University, in Lima, Perú. At the time I was studying social communications and, one of the subjects we had was photography. I have to say that I didn't have the same talent my mates had. In fact I never liked my own pictures. We had to optimize our photographic sense, and in order to do that, had to go out and take shot images of the street, or landscapes with some sociological meaning. Here some pictures I took by the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQHYoA0MKI/AAAAAAAAA7U/DvPtNYWpsb4/s1600/Urbana12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQHYoA0MKI/AAAAAAAAA7U/DvPtNYWpsb4/s400/Urbana12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504532764192682146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQHYIYsOHI/AAAAAAAAA7M/StO30iWl7XI/s1600/Urbana9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQHYIYsOHI/AAAAAAAAA7M/StO30iWl7XI/s400/Urbana9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504532755702888562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQHX3IUZtI/AAAAAAAAA7E/hd2MCJcUrJ8/s1600/Urbana8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 277px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQHX3IUZtI/AAAAAAAAA7E/hd2MCJcUrJ8/s400/Urbana8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504532751070815954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQHXVioYPI/AAAAAAAAA68/3IFy_q9N4XQ/s1600/Urbana7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQHXVioYPI/AAAAAAAAA68/3IFy_q9N4XQ/s400/Urbana7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504532742054371570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQHXCSOZYI/AAAAAAAAA60/7GFN5yYnDiM/s1600/Urbana6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 276px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQHXCSOZYI/AAAAAAAAA60/7GFN5yYnDiM/s400/Urbana6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504532736885286274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQE8mCv27I/AAAAAAAAA6s/lvq6wGVALDs/s1600/Urbana5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQE8mCv27I/AAAAAAAAA6s/lvq6wGVALDs/s400/Urbana5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504530083604323250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQE8BJ7YhI/AAAAAAAAA6k/PfLM0cALaRA/s1600/Urbana4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQE8BJ7YhI/AAAAAAAAA6k/PfLM0cALaRA/s400/Urbana4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504530073702326802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQE7jEHUGI/AAAAAAAAA6c/zXQCJgN3NWA/s1600/Urbana3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 289px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQE7jEHUGI/AAAAAAAAA6c/zXQCJgN3NWA/s400/Urbana3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504530065624879202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQE7F5TfXI/AAAAAAAAA6U/TKQ3Yrd2_hc/s1600/Urbana2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQE7F5TfXI/AAAAAAAAA6U/TKQ3Yrd2_hc/s400/Urbana2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504530057794911602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQE6jZU0CI/AAAAAAAAA6M/9eMyIYIXvcA/s1600/Urbana1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQE6jZU0CI/AAAAAAAAA6M/9eMyIYIXvcA/s400/Urbana1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504530048533975074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-8962163271981934826?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/8962163271981934826/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=8962163271981934826' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/8962163271981934826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/8962163271981934826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/08/some-urban-pictures-of-lima-1996.html' title='Some Urban Pictures of Lima 1996'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TGQJIY3R4UI/AAAAAAAAA7c/_-Cua_OpCw8/s72-c/Urbana11.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-6322260153431000224</id><published>2010-08-05T11:55:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-08-05T12:50:11.615-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paint'/><title type='text'>The Ages of the Man</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;These ones are part of an Art Exhibition that is taking place in the Art Room of the Ricardo Palma University in Lima Peru. I went to the exhibition and decided to take some pics. The paints are about teens resented in a different and savage way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFryKjIzweI/AAAAAAAAA58/Gju_FYN_7pA/s1600/cuadro1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 313px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFryKjIzweI/AAAAAAAAA58/Gju_FYN_7pA/s400/cuadro1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501976157831283170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFryKYvoVJI/AAAAAAAAA50/bf4rfvExyEM/s1600/cuadro2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 313px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFryKYvoVJI/AAAAAAAAA50/bf4rfvExyEM/s400/cuadro2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501976155041322130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFryKL8qAYI/AAAAAAAAA5s/8IADNtYeOtk/s1600/cuadro3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 313px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFryKL8qAYI/AAAAAAAAA5s/8IADNtYeOtk/s400/cuadro3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501976151606296962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFrwjnInr7I/AAAAAAAAA5k/TWLHo-JrOcI/s1600/CUADRO4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 313px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFrwjnInr7I/AAAAAAAAA5k/TWLHo-JrOcI/s400/CUADRO4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501974389377707954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFrwjXR-I-I/AAAAAAAAA5c/iZ7bN4rP7J8/s1600/cuadro5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFrwjXR-I-I/AAAAAAAAA5c/iZ7bN4rP7J8/s400/cuadro5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501974385121960930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFrwi-6O5cI/AAAAAAAAA5U/6g4jX2bG1vU/s1600/cuadro6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFrwi-6O5cI/AAAAAAAAA5U/6g4jX2bG1vU/s400/cuadro6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501974378579944898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFrwijM4yLI/AAAAAAAAA5M/VS4o_BMyDoQ/s1600/CUADRO7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 313px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFrwijM4yLI/AAAAAAAAA5M/VS4o_BMyDoQ/s400/CUADRO7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501974371141994674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFrwie0b0XI/AAAAAAAAA5E/GD8wmMBV2SU/s1600/cuadro8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 313px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFrwie0b0XI/AAAAAAAAA5E/GD8wmMBV2SU/s400/cuadro8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501974369965691250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFruOX3jeDI/AAAAAAAAA48/AVufmQHrupk/s1600/cuadro9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFruOX3jeDI/AAAAAAAAA48/AVufmQHrupk/s400/cuadro9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501971825479088178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFruOEqTSXI/AAAAAAAAA40/xKvdTTlKCDo/s1600/cuadro10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFruOEqTSXI/AAAAAAAAA40/xKvdTTlKCDo/s400/cuadro10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501971820323228018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFruNquvq1I/AAAAAAAAA4s/wQwwgGPfvFc/s1600/cuadro11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFruNquvq1I/AAAAAAAAA4s/wQwwgGPfvFc/s400/cuadro11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501971813362543442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFruNRNjbHI/AAAAAAAAA4k/-RW4Xog1Gxo/s1600/cuadro12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFruNRNjbHI/AAAAAAAAA4k/-RW4Xog1Gxo/s400/cuadro12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501971806512442482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFruNJnLPUI/AAAAAAAAA4c/3ILJFt-CbDQ/s1600/cuadro14.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFruNJnLPUI/AAAAAAAAA4c/3ILJFt-CbDQ/s400/cuadro14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501971804472425794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-6322260153431000224?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/6322260153431000224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=6322260153431000224' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/6322260153431000224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/6322260153431000224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/08/ages-of-man.html' title='The Ages of the Man'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFryKjIzweI/AAAAAAAAA58/Gju_FYN_7pA/s72-c/cuadro1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-5932253503491791342</id><published>2010-08-01T09:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-08-01T10:46:54.535-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Antioquia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Adventure in Huaraz - Peru'/><title type='text'>Pictures of Antioquía - Perú 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFWWXBbg4_I/AAAAAAAAA4U/zOsJizDm1H8/s1600/Unicorns2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFWWXBbg4_I/AAAAAAAAA4U/zOsJizDm1H8/s400/Unicorns2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500467842167923698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFWWWu1553I/AAAAAAAAA4M/sEqOrYQXpLw/s1600/Unicornios.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFWWWu1553I/AAAAAAAAA4M/sEqOrYQXpLw/s400/Unicornios.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500467837178341234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TFWWWdcDaXI/AAAAAAAAA4E/dHWX0VusuRc/s1600/Truck.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 285px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TEbnV8sfp-I/AAAAAAAAAyY/6zuqz4qTMWw/s400/archivo+curret.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496334759508289506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;(The Chronicle of a Civil War)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For Don Juan de la Pezuela, Count of Cheste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;WHO THE KNIGHTS OF THE CAPE WERE AND THE OATH THEY SWORE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the afternoon of June 5, 1541, twelve Spaniards, all of whom had been honored by the king for their exploits in the conquest of Peru, met at the mansion of Pedro de San Millán.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The house that sheltered them consisted of a parlor, five rooms, and a large open area. Six leather chairs, an oak bench and a dirty table flush with the wall constituted the furniture of the parlor. Thus, just like the clothing of the structure’s inhabitants, the house itself proclaimed a poverty that bordered on destitution. And that was the truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The twelve noblemen belonged to the number of men who had been defeated April 6, 1538, in the battle of Salinas.[1] The victor had confiscated their goods but they were allowed to breathe the air of Lima, where they survived due to the kindnesses of certain friends. The victor, as was the practice in those days, could have had them hanged without any problem; but Don Francisco Pizarro was ahead of his time, and seemed much more like a man from our age, in which an enemy isn’t always killed or imprisoned, but is deprived either wholly or partially of his ration of bread. Crestfallen yet lifted up, filled up yet starving, that was the Colony, and it has been and is the Republic. As the verse goes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       We leave Guate-mala (mala = bad)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       And enter Guate-peor; (peor = worse)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       The tambourine changes hands&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       But not the music.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       Or as they say in Italy: Break free of the barbarians only to fall into the hands of the Barbarini.[2]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The names of these twelve knights were Pedro de San Millán, Cristóbal de Sotelo, García de Alvarado, Francisco de Chávez, Martín de Bilbao, Diego Méndez, Juan Rodríguez Barragán, Gómez Pérez, Diego de Hoces, Martín Carrillo, Jerónimo de Almagro and Juan Tello.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because of the importance of the role they play in this chronicle, we will quickly draw a historical sketch of each of the noblemen, starting with the owner of the house. A tout seigneur, tout honneur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pedro de San Millán, Knight of the Order of Santiago, was thirty-eight years old and was among the 170 conquistadors who captured Atahualpa.[3] Upon dividing out the ransom of the Inca, he received 135 weights of silver and 3330 ounces of gold. As a loyal friend of Don Diego de Almagro,[4] he fell in line under Almagro’s standard and fell into disfavor with the Pizarros, who confiscated his fortune, leaving him, as an alm, the dilapidated mansion on Judíos Street. It is said: “A small cage is large enough for a sparrow.” San Millán, when fortune had smiled upon him, had been guilty of ostentatiousness and of excessive spending. He was brave, genteel, and generally popular.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cristobál de Sotelo was approaching fifty-five years of age, and having served as a soldier in Europe, his opinion was very highly regarded. He was the infantry commander in the battle of Salinas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;García de Alvarado was a dashing young man of twenty-eight, possessing a martial air and an overbearing manner. He was very ambitious and very sure of himself. He also exhibited streaks of roguishness and villainy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diego Méndez, of the Order of Santiago, served with the famous general Rodrigo Ordóñez, who died in the battle of Salinas while commanding the losing army. Méndez was forty-three and was better known as a Don Juan and courtier than as a soldier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chroniclers tell us little regarding Francisco de Chaves, Martín de Bilbao, Diego de Hoces, Gómez Pérez and Martín Carrillo, only that they were fearless soldiers and beloved of their own men. None of them had reached thirty five years of age.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Juan Tello, the Sevillian, was one of the twelve founders of Lima. The others were Marquis Pizarro, the Treasurer Alonso Riquelme, the Inspector García de Salcedo, the Sevillian Nicolás de Rivera the elder, Ruiz Diáz, Rodrigo Mazuelas, Cristobál Palomino, the Salamancan Nicolás de Rivera the younger, and Picado, the secretary. The first mayors of Lima’s town council were Rivera the elder and Juan Tello. It is obvious that the latter had been an important person, and at the time of our story was forty six years old.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jerónimo de Almagro was born in the same city as Marshal Almagro. Because of this detail and their last names that were in common, they referred to each other as cousin. Such a relationship did not exist, for Don Diego was an impoverished orphan. Jerónimo was about 40 years old.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is common knowledge that just as in our day nobody who considers himself to be anybody will be seen in the street in shirtsleeves, likewise, in days past, nobody who was aspiring to be held as a decent man would dare show his face publicly without a cape. Whether it was hot or cold, on a walk, at a banquet or in a church ceremony, the Spaniard and his cape formed an inseparable partnership. Because of this, I suspect that the decree issued in 1822 by Minister Monteagudo[5] prohibiting the Spaniards the use of the cape was as important for Peru’s independence as winning any battle. With its cape outlawed, Spain disappeared.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To compound the misery of our twelve noblemen, between them there was only one cape. And when one of them was compelled to leave, the eleven who remained were unable to set foot outside the mansion because they lacked the indispensable garment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Antonio Picado, Marquis Don Francisco Pizarro’s secretary, or stated more aptly, his demon of perdition, referred one day to the noblemen as the “Knights of the Cape.” The nickname became famous and before long was on everyone’s lips.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a convenient spot for a brief biographical note about Picado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He came to Peru in 1534 as secretary to Marshal Don Pedro de Alvarado, he of the famous leap in Mexico.[6] Alvarado claimed that certain territories in the North were not included in the territories conceded by the Emperor to Pizarro as part of the conquest and just as he was about to take up arms against Don Diego de Almagro’s forces, Picado sold Alvarado’s secrets to Almagro. One night, suspecting that this infamy would soon be discovered, Picado fled to the enemy camp. Alvarado sent forces in his pursuit, but after failing to overtake him, wrote Don Diego saying that he would not enter into any treaty unless they first sent back the traitor. The gallant Almagro rejected the proposal, thus saving the life of a man who later proved to be traitorous to him and his men.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don Francisco Pizarro made Picado his secretary, and in this office he exercised a fatal, decisive influence over the Marquis. It was Picado who, stifling the governor’s generous impulses, made him hostile towards those whose only crime had been losing the battle of Salinas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By 1541 it was known that the monarch, informed of what was happening in these kingdoms, was sending the lawyer Don Cristóbal Vaca de Castro[7] to impeach the governor; and the followers of Almagro, preparing to demand justice for the death of Don Diego, sent captains Alonso Portocarrero and Juan Balsa to receive the man commissioned by the crown and give him reports to bias his opinion. But the investigating judge did not arrive when expected. Sickness and maritime setbacks delayed his arrival at the City of Kings.[8]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pizarro, meanwhile, decided to win friends, even those of the Knights of the Cape. He sent messages to Sotelo, Chaves, and others, offering to help them out of their indigent situation. But to the credit of the followers of Almagro, they did not stoop to receive the crust of bread being cast to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With things in this state, Picado’s insolence increased by the day, and he did not miss any opportunity to insult “the Chileans,” as Almagro’s supporters were called. Angered one night, these followers hung three ropes from the gallows with signs stating: “For Pizarro,” “For Picado,” and “For Velázquez.”[9]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Pizarro learned of this irreverent act, he was far from being upset, and said while smiling: “Poor wretches! We need to allow them some way to vent their frustrations. They are in such a bind that we need bother them no longer. They are allowing their frustrations to surface.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Picado felt, as his name implies, pricked,[10] and that afternoon, June 5, put on a small French cape embroidered with silver amulets, mounted a magnificent horse, and rode back and forth in front of the house of Juan de Rada, the guardian of the youthful Almagro, and the mansion of Pedro de San Millán, the home of our twelve knights. He carried his provocation to the point that, when some of them looked on, he flaunted an insulting gesture, by saying, “For the Chileans,” as he applied his spurs to the animal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Knights of the Cape immediately sent for Juan de Rada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pizarro had offered to be the second father of the young Almagro, who was orphaned at age nineteen, and as a result accommodated him in the place, but it nettled the young man to hear words discrediting the memory of his father and his friends so he left the Marquis to come under the tutelage of Juan de Rada. The latter was a very spirited and respected old man who belonged to a noble family from Castile, and he was esteemed as a man of great prudence and experience. He lived in some rooms on the street off the Arcade of Botoneros that is known today as “Callejón de los Clerigos”. Rada saw in the youthful Almagro a son and a rallying standard to avenge the Marshal’s death. And all the Chileans, whose number exceeded 200, while recognizing young Don Diego as their leader, looked to Rada for the call to arms and to organize the revolutionary efforts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rada quickly responded to the summons of the knights. The old man arrived seething with indignation because of Picado’s most recent offense, and the council resolved not to wait for the justice the crown was sending through this representative, but to take upon themselves the punishment of the Marquis and his insolent secretary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;García de Alvarado, who was wearing the company’s cape that afternoon, threw it to the ground and, standing on it, said: “Let us swear by the salvation of our souls to die in the defense of the rights of young Almagro, and to cut from this cape the death shroud for Antonio Picado!”&lt;br /&gt;II&lt;br /&gt;OF THE DARING EXPLOIT CARRIED OUT BY THE KNIGHTS OF THE CAPE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The matter could not be carried out so secretly that Pizarro did not find out that the Chileans were holding frequent clandestine meetings, that a restless excitement reigned among them, that they were buying arms, and that when Rada and the young Almagro went out into the street they were followed at a distance by a group of supporters under the guise of escorts. Nevertheless, he did not take any measures to defend himself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During this time of inaction Pizarro received letters from several dignitaries telling him that the Chileans were openly preparing an uprising throughout the country. These, and other reports, forced him one morning to send for Juan de Rada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rada found Pizarro in the palace garden, at the foot of a fig tree which is still in existence, and according to Herrera’s Decadas,[11] the following dialogue ensued:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“What is this all about, Juan de Rada, that it is said that you are buying guns with which to kill me?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“It is true, sire, that I have purchased two breastplates and a coat of mail to defend myself.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“And what has made you feel the need to thus equip yourself at this time?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We are told, sir, and it is no secret, that your lordship is gathering lances to kill all of us. Let your lordship put an end to us now and do with us what he pleases, because if one starts with the head there is no reason to respect the feet. It is also said that your lordship intends to kill the judge sent by the king. If this is your disposition and you are determined to administer death to the Chileans, stop short of killing them all. Send Don Diego off in a ship, for he is innocent, and I will go with him wherever fortune may carry us.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Who has led you to believe such great evil and treason as this? I have never thought of any such thing, and am more anxious than you are for the judge to arrive. He would be here now had he come on the galleon I sent for him to Panama. Regarding the arms, be it known that the other day I went hunting, and among our company there was not a single lance; I ordered my servants to buy one and they bought four. I hope to God, Juan de Rada, that the judge will come and these matters will be put to rest, and may God assist the right.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has been rightly said that “good advice comes from the enemy.” Perhaps Pizarro would have avoided his unhappy end if, as the astute Rada had indicated, he would have banished Almagro at the moment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The discussion continued in a friendly tone, and when Rada bid him farewell, Pizarro gave him six figs that he cut from the tree, among the first grown in Lima.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After this interview Don Francisco thought he had averted all danger, and he continued to ignore the warnings he constantly received.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the afternoon of June 25, a clergyman secretly told Pizarro that he had become aware that the followers of Almagro were going to attempt to assassinate him, and very soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“That priest wants to be a bishop,” replied the Marquis, and with usual confidence, went unescorted on a walk and then bowling with the elder Nicolás de Rivera.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When he retired to bed, the little page who aided him with his clothes told him: “Marquis, sire, all that is being said in the streets is that the Chileans are seeking to kill your lordship.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Bah! Leave that nonsense alone, youngster, that kind of thing isn’t for you,” Pizarro said, interrupting him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the dawning of Sunday, June 26, the Marquis arose somewhat troubled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At nine o’clock he called the mayor, Juan de Velázquez, and recommended that he stay informed as to the plans of the Chileans, and if he sensed anything unusual to imprison them without delay. Velázquez gave him the following answer, which is made humorous by the ensuing events:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Fear not, your lordship, for as long as I hold this staff in my hand, I swear to God no harm will befall you!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Departing from his usual custom, Pizarro did not go out to mass, and ordered it said in the palace chapel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently Velázquez did not show prudence, as he should have, regarding the Marquis’ order, and talked it over with the treasurer, Alonso Riquelme, and others. Thus the news reached Pedro San Millán, who went to Rada’s house where a group of the conspirators were gathered. He shared with them what he knew and added: “The time has come to act. If we leave this for tomorrow we will be massacred this very day.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the others were scattering throughout the city to carry out different assignments, Juan de Rada, Martín de Bilbao, Diego Méndez, Gómez Pérez, Arbolancha, Narváez and others, nineteen conspirators in all, hastily left the Callejón de los Clerigos (and not from Petateros Street, as is commonly believed) for the palace. Gómez Pérez went around a puddle of water to avoid stepping into it, and Juan de Rada chastised him saying: “We shall be swimming in human blood, and you are taking precautions to keep your feet dry? Turn around and go back--you aren’t meant for this business.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More than 500 persons who were passing by or were going to noon mass were in the square at that time, and indifferently looked at the group. Some of the suspicious ventured to say: “Those men are going to kill the Marquis or Picado.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Marquis, governor, and captain general of Peru, Don Francisco Pizarro, was in one of the rooms of the palace chatting with the bishop elect of Quito, Mayor Velázquez and some fifteen other friends, when a page burst in, shouting “The Chileans are coming to kill my lord the Marquis!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ensuing confusion was astonishing. Some rushed through the halls out to the garden, others lowered themselves out the windows to the street. Among the latter was Velázquez, who, to get a better grip on the balustrade, placed his staff between his teeth. Thus he did not break the oath he had made three hours earlier, for if the Marquis found himself in trouble, it was because Velazquez did not have his staff in his hand, but in his mouth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pizarro, with his armor poorly adjusted, for he didn’t have time to finish dressing, his cape folded around his arm as a shield, and sword in hand, went out to meet the conspirators, who had already killed a captain and wounded three or four servants. Accompanying the Marquis were his half-brother on his mother’s side, Martín de Alcántara, Juan Ortiz de Zárate, and two pages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In spite of his sixty-four years, the Marquis fought with youthful vigor, and the conspirators could not get past the threshold of a door defended by Pizarro and his four companions, who resembled him in vigor and courage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Traitors! Why do you desire to kill me? Shame! Attacking my house as outlaws!” shouted Pizarro, furious and brandishing his sword. And just as the Marquis struck one of the conspirators pushed forward by Rada, Martín de Bilbao thrust Pizarro through the neck.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The conqueror of Peru pronounced but one word, “Jesus!”, and fell to the floor. He drew a cross in the blood on the ground with his finger, then kissed it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Juan Rodríguez Barragán then broke a clay pot from Guadalajara over his head, and Don Francisco Pizarro took his last breath.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martín de Alcántara and the two pages died with him, and Ortiz de Zárate was gravely wounded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later on they wanted to drag Pizarro’s body through the square but the pleadings of the bishop of Quito and Juan de Rada’s authority prevented this act of barbaric savageness. That night two of the Marquis’ humble servants washed his body, dressed him in the habit of Santiago without the golden spurs, which had disappeared, opened a tomb on the grounds on which the cathedral stands today, in the patio still known as Naranjos, and buried the body. Pizarro’s bones are now enclosed in a gold-clasped velvet coffin under the high altar of the cathedral. At least that is the general belief.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once the assassination had been carried out, the authors of the same went out to the square shouting, “Long live the king! The tyrant is dead! Long live Almagro! May justice reign in the land!” And Juan de Rada rubbed his hands together in satisfaction, saying, “Happy is this day on which it shall be known that the Marshall had friends loyal enough to avenge his murder.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jerónimo de Aliaga, Illán Suárez de Carbajal the Factor, Nicolás de Rivera the Elder, the council mayor, and many of the other prominent citizens of Lima were immediately taken prisoner. The homes of the Marquis, his brother Martín de Alcántara, and Picado were looted. The value of the booty of the first was estimated at 100,000 pesos; the second, 15,000; and the last, 40,000.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By three in the afternoon more than two hundred Almagrists had created a new town council; had installed Almagro the Younger in the palace with the title of governor, until the king should make other arrangements; had recognized Cristóbal de Sotelo as Lieutenant Governor and had made Juan de Rada commander of the army.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The monks of the Order of La Merced, who were Almagrists in both Lima and Cuzco, bore the monstrance in a procession and hastened to recognize the new government. The friars always played an important part in the quarrels between conquerors. There were those who turned the pulpit into a rostrum for slander against any group not to their liking. And as proof of the influence sermons had over troops, we will copy a letter from Francisco Girón[12] to Father Baltasar Melgarejo in 1553. It reads as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Very Excellent and Reverend Sir:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I have learned that your Reverence is waging more of a war against me than the soldiers with their arms. I should be pleased to learn of a change in the matter, because otherwise, God granting me victory, I shall be forced by your Reverence to overlook our friendship and the position your Reverence holds. May your most excellent and Reverend person be preserved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“From my army tent in Pachacamac, your servant kisses your Reverence’s hand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Francisco Hernández Girón.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A historical observation in passing. Rada was always the soul of the conspiracy and young Almagro was unaware of his followers’ plans. He was not consulted on the matter of the assassination of Pizarro, and the youthful leader had no more involvement in it than to accept the completed fact.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After Mayor Velázquez had been imprisoned, his brother, the Bishop of Cuzco, Friar Vicente Valverde, the fanatic of the Dominican Order who had such an important role in the capture, torture and execution of Atahualpa, found the way for him to escape. The two brothers then left to go join with Vaca de Castro, but on the island of Puna the Indians killed them as well as sixteen other Spaniards with their arrows. We are not certain whether the Church reveres Father Valverde as one of its martyrs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Velázquez jumped from the frying pan into the fire. The Knights of the Cape would not have pardoned him anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the very first signs of the revolution Antonio Picado hid in the house of Riquelme the treasurer, and when his hiding place was discovered the next day they went to take him captive. Riquelme told the Almagrists: “I don’t know where Picado is,” while making clear with his eyes for them to look under the bed. The pen refuses to comment on such an act of treason.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Knights of the Cape, presided over by Juan de Rada and with the consent of Don Diego, formed a court of justice. Each reproached Picado with the injury he had received when Picado had been so powerful with Pizarro. They then tortured him so he would tell where the Marquis had placed hidden treasures. Finally, on September 29, they cut off his head in the main square with the following proclamation voiced in Spanish by Cosme Ledesma, a black man who spoke Spanish, accompanied by drums and four soldiers carrying his lances and two others holding harquebuses with the fuses lit: “His Majesty commands that this man die for being a trouble-maker in these kingdoms, and because he wrongfully seized and burned many royal orders, concealing the same due to the damage it constituted to the Marquis, and because he was extorting and had extorted a great sum of gold from the land.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The oath of the Knights of the Cape ran true to the letter. The famous cape became Antonio Picado’s death shroud.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;III&lt;br /&gt;THE DEMISE OF ALMAGRO THE YOUNGER AND THE TWELVE KNIGHTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We do not pretend to go into detail concerning the fourteen and a half months young Almagro was in power, nor to give the history of the campaign which Vaca de Castro had to undertake to overthrow him. We shall only speak of the events without dwelling on the details.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With only a few sympathizers in Lima’s environs, Don Diego was forced to flee the city to gather strength in Guamanga and Cuzco, where he had numerous supporters. A few days before his retreat, Francisco de Chaves came to him with a complaint. When he received no redress he said, “I desire to be your friend no longer, and I now return to you my sword and my horse.” Juan de Rada arrested him for insubordination and had him beheaded. Thus one of the Knights of the Cape met his end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Juan de Rada, stricken by age and fatigue, died in Jauja at the beginning of the campaign. This was a fatal blow to the revolutionary cause. García de Alvarado replaced him as general, and Cristóbal de Sotelo was named Field Marshal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before long discord broke out between the two army leaders, and while Sotelo was lying sick in bed, García de Alvarado went to him seeking an explanation for certain gossip which had reached his ears. “I do not recall saying anything about you or any member of the Alvarado family,” the Field Marshal answered. “But if I did say something, I’ll say it again; because, being who I am, I couldn’t care less about the Alvarados. And just wait until this fever subsides and you can demand an explanation with the point of your sword.” At that point the impetuous García de Alvarado committed the vile deed of wounding him and one of his followers finished him off. Thus, the death of the second Knight of the Cape.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Young Almagro would have liked to punish the treacherous killer in the act, but that undertaking wasn’t feasible. García de Alvarado, now haughty because of his prestige in military matters, conspired to do away with Don Diego, and then, depending on which suited his interests, either fight Vaca de Castro or reach an agreement with him. Almagro, giving the impression that all was well between them, inspired the confidence of Alvarado, and found the way to lure him to a feast Pedro de San Millán was giving in Cuzco. There, while the party was in full sway, a confidant of Don Diego threw himself upon Don García while saying:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“You are under arrest!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Not under arrest, but dead,” added Almagro, delivering a thrust of his sword. The other guests finished him off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus three of the Knights of the Cape disappeared before even facing the enemy in the battle. The handwriting was on the wall that they would all die a violent death, bathed in their own blood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the meantime, the crucial moment was drawing near, and Vaca de Castro made peace proposals to Almagro and offered general amnesty, from which only the remaining nine Knights of the Cape, along with two or three other Spaniards, would be accepted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The civil war ended on Sunday, September 16, 1542, with the bloody battle at Chupas. Almagro, leading 500 men, was almost the conqueror of the 800 following Vaca de Castro’s standard. During the first hour the victory seemed to be all but certain for the young leader; Diego de Hoces, who was commanding one wing of the army, thoroughly routed an opposing division. Without the daring of Francisco de Carbajal, who reestablished order in Vaca de Castro’s battle lines, and more importantly, without the inexperience or treachery of Pedro de Candia, who commanded the Almagrist artillery, the Chileans’ triumph would have been certain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The number of dead on both sides exceeded two hundred and forty, and that of the wounded was also considerable. With such a small number of soldiers it is only possible to explain such butchery by remembering that the Almagrists held the same enthusiastic fanaticism for their leader that they had professed for his father, the Marshal. And it is no secret that fanaticism for a cause has always produced heroes and martyrs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those certainly were times in which entering into battle required a stout heart. The conflicts ended in hand-to-hand combat, and strength, skill and courage were the factors governing success.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Firearms were about three centuries away from guns with firing pins, and were a hindrance for a soldier, who was unable to use a musket or harquebus if he wasn’t equipped with flint, steel and tinder to light the fuse. Artillery was in the diaper stage, for if the stone-throwing mortars or falconets, were good for anything, it was to make noise like bombs. And while we are on the subject, gunpowder was wasted in salvos, for as the gunners were not skilled in range-finding, the balls would scatter wherever the devil guided them. Nowadays it is a pleasure for both the cowardly and the bold to die on the field of battle, for they are felled with the cleanliness with which a complex equation is solved. One dies mathematically, according to the rules, without an error in addition or in writing. And that ought to be comforting for any soul being taken to the other side. Without a doubt, nowadays a cannonball is a scientific matter, for it is born well educated, knowing exactly where it is to go. This is real progress, and to deny it is nonsense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When all hopes of victory had vanished, Martín de Bilbao and Jerónimo de Almagro refused to flee the battlefield, so they rushed out among their enemies shouting, “Here I am! I killed the Marquis!” In a few moments they fell lifeless. Their bodies were sliced up the following day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pedro de San Millán, Martín Carrillo and Juan Tello were taken captive, and Vaca de Castro immediately ordered that they be beheaded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diego de Hoces, the fierce captain who caused such great destruction to come upon the loyalist troops, was able to flee the battlefield, but was beheaded a few days later in Guamanga.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Juan Rodríguez Barragán, who had been made lieutenant governor of Cuzco, was taken prisoner in the city and executed. When the same authorities that Don Diego had appointed learned of his defeat, they declared their support for the conqueror hoping for pardons and favors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diego Méndez and Gómez Pérez were able to take refuge with the Inca Manco, who in a protest against the conquest maintained a good-sized Indian army in the peaks of the Andes. They lived there until the end of 1544. One day after having an altercation with the Inca Manco, Gómez Pérez killed him by stabbing him, and in turn the Indians killed the two knights and four other Spaniards who had taken refuge with them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Young Almagro fought desperately until the last moment, when, with the outcome of the battle decided, he spurred his horse to gallop towards Pedro de Candia, and while shouting at him “Traitor!”, ran him through with his lance. Diego de Méndez then forced him to take flight with him in order to take refuge with the Inca. And they would have been successful had it not occurred to Méndez to go into Cuzco to bid his mistress farewell. Because of this act of folly Almagro was taken prisoner, and while Méndez did manage to escape, he later died at the hands of the Indians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A trial was held, and Don Diego was found guilty. He appealed the judgment to the court at Panama and to the king, but in vain, for the appeal was denied. He then said with integrity: “I summon Vaca de Castro to appear before the judgment seat of God, where we will be tried without bias. And since I will now die where my father was beheaded, my only request is that I be placed in the same grave, underneath his corpse.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He met death, says a chronicler who witnessed the execution, with courage. He refused to have his eyes covered so he could fix them, up until the last moment, on the image of the Christ crucified. And as he had requested, he was placed in the same tomb in which his father the Marshal had been interred.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This young man was twenty-four years old, born to a noble Indian woman from Panama. He was of medium height and winning countenance, a fine cavalryman, very courageous and skilled in the use of arms. He inherited the shrewdness of his father, and was even more generous, although his father was a very giving person, and like him, he knew how to command the utmost allegiance of his followers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus, with the sad end of their leader and of the Knights of the Cape, the band of Chileans ceased to exist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHAPTER 2&lt;br /&gt;DON ALONSO THE BRAWNY ONE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The story is told about the Venezuelan General Páez,[13] the hero of the plains, who during the epoch of war to the death with the mother country,[14] took a fat Spanish soldier prisoner, a man who had a reputation of possessing Herculean strength, and said to him, “Listen, you terrible excuse for a horseman. I will spare your life if you are able to throw me to the ground.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The prisoner smiled and accepted the challenge, sure that victory was certain, but Páez, who as a wrestler was more clever and more agile than he was strong, was able to put the Spaniard down in two minutes. Then the winner said, “Now, you trembling nincompoop, prepare yourself to be shot.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whereupon the soldier said, “Agreed, my general. You have played me the same way that a cat plays with a mouse. Now, swallow me up.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can guess that the reply found favor with Páez because he pardoned the prisoner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the Royal Army there was also a very strong man, Commander Santalla, of whom it was said that he would take a small book of forty pages, that is a deck of cards, and tear it in two, saying, “This a lot of people do.” He then would do the same with the resulting eighty pieces, saying, “This, very few can do.” Then he would take the 160 pieces and tear them in two, exclaiming triumphantly, “This only one person can do, and he is Commander Santalla!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But in the matter of powerful men, Páez, Santalla and all the modern Samsons are babes in arms compared with Don Alonso, a person of whom one chronicler said that when his horse got tired he would hoist it onto his shoulders without removing the harnesses or the gear and would continue on his way as if he were doing nothing worthy of comment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don Alonso el Membrudo[15] is the nickname the conquistadors gave to Captain Alonso Díaz, a relative of the Governor of Panama, Don Pedro Arias Dávila.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An inhabitant of Cuzco when the rebellion broke out, which in the early stages favored Almagro the Younger,[16] he was very devoted to Marquis Pizarro and refused to abandon the city, hiding there and conspiring to aid the efforts of the lawyer Vaca de Castro, who had been sent to Peru to put an end to the turmoil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upon receiving notice that 800 Royalist soldiers had departed from Guamanga in order to do battle with 600 of Almagro’s troops, Don Alonso decided to abandon his hiding place and make his way to Chupas, anxious to arrive in time to take part in the battle which took place on September 16, 1542.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was still several leagues from Vaca de Castro’s encampment when he saw coming toward him three horsemen on spirited horses at full gallop, who were carrying to Cuzco news of the disaster suffered by the armed forces of Almagro the Younger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alonso Díaz stopped one of the emissaries, and the latter, upon recognizing one of the original conquistadors to come to Peru with Pizarro, dismounted, exclaiming, “Good news, Captain! Long live the king! The tyrant has been defeated!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So great was Don Alonso’s satisfaction upon hearing the welcome news that he embraced the soldier, saying, “Long live the king! Give me a real embrace!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so powerful was that embrace that the soldier let out a cry and fell down, blood spurting from his mouth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alonso Díaz, who in the battles of the conquest killed not with his sword but by applying a bear hug to his Indian adversaries, forgot in the enthusiasm of his glee that his arms were lethal weapons when they embraced—causing death in friend or foe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, he was pardoned by Vaca de Castro, but he was forbidden to embrace anyone, under pain of death—man or woman, friend or foe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the article that Manuel de Mendiburu wrote about Alonso Díaz in his Diccionario histórico del Perú he states that a royal order came from Spain taking from the braggart the right to embrace. I assume that this royal order was the approbation of the sentence decreed by Vaca de Castro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That skill is worth more than strength is proved by the sword duel between Alonso Díaz and Francisco de Villacastín. The latter was one of the companions of Francisco Pizarro, who considered him such a loyal supporter and good friend that he made him one of the first governors of Cuzco, giving him for his wife Doña Leonor, a ñusta,[17] daughter of Huayna Capac.[18] By virtue of this marriage Villacastín came to be the lord of Ayaviri, an encomienda[19] which boasted 8,000 Indians who paid tribute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Villacastín, because of his ugliness, was a grotesque person in appearance. He was missing two front teeth and the reason for such a defect was indeed something that caused people to laugh. It happened this way. One day, Don Francisco was walking through a jungle in Panama when a monkey that was in the top of a tree threw a rock at him and knocked out four teeth. Villacastín, after having recovered from the blow, cocked his crossbow and killed the creature that had disfigured him for life. How fortunate we are to live in a time when we have not only false individual teeth but also false sets of teeth. If I’m not mistaken, Garcilaso,[20] who knew him well, tells about the monkey that threw the rock.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alonso Díaz, who was a great joker, made fun of Villacastín one day, saying to him, “You only have the courage to challenge a swaggering monkey, and then come out toothless for the eternities.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This stung Villacastín, whereupon he unsheathed his sword. Alonso Díaz put himself on guard and the two of them began to fight. But Don Francisco, who although not as strong nor as vigorous as his adversary, was superior to him in agility and after a few moments of dueling dealt him such a vicious blow that for a period of eight days it was uncertain whether Don Alonso would recover from his wound.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having fought with Girón in his rebellion,[21] in which this rebel chief was defeated and executed, Díaz took advantage of the pardon extended by the Royal Audience[22] and returned to Cuzco to live out his last days peacefully in Cuzco, where he was one of the wealthiest inhabitants. But in 1556, suspecting that Díaz would take part in new uprisings, the Viceroy, the Marquis de Cañete, had him garroted in secret.[23]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One day, someone who was curious about the death of Alonso Díaz asked the Viceroy why he had executed such an outstanding Spaniard. The Viceroy replied, “I did it to cure that crazy person of the bad habit he had of embracing people. In spite of the fact that he knew his caresses were dangerous and forbidden, one night in a dance he defied the royal order and embraced one of his female acquaintances according to the testimony of ten of the most notable inhabitants of Cuzco.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whatever may be the truth in the case, I don’t know which is the right version and I am not in the mood to write more on the subject. Embracer or revolutionary, the fact is that Don Alonso el Membrudo died an ignoble death. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-4597587973026388620?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/4597587973026388620/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=4597587973026388620' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/4597587973026388620'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/4597587973026388620'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/07/peruvian-traditionsthe-knights-of-cape.html' title='Peruvian Traditions:The Knights of the cape - 1541'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TEbnV8sfp-I/AAAAAAAAAyY/6zuqz4qTMWw/s72-c/archivo+curret.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-6763623182891496978</id><published>2010-07-16T08:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T11:16:37.331-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel peru'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the mos ancient civilization in Peru'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caral'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Quipu'/><title type='text'>Magic Caral the most Ancient City in Peru</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TECFkwES8_I/AAAAAAAAAyM/zO36PBrM5cg/s1600/caral+3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TECFkwES8_I/AAAAAAAAAyM/zO36PBrM5cg/s400/caral+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494538411816711154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TECEyWwkEpI/AAAAAAAAAyE/lsrnU14uNTg/s1600/Piramides+caral.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TECEyWwkEpI/AAAAAAAAAyE/lsrnU14uNTg/s400/Piramides+caral.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494537546029601426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TEB92ReZnzI/AAAAAAAAAx8/BlqR97UjA-A/s1600/Caral+1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 226px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TEB92ReZnzI/AAAAAAAAAx8/BlqR97UjA-A/s400/Caral+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494529916749324082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;One of the Peruvian main attractions is just some kilometers away from Lima (Capital of Peru). I am talking about Caral, which is a complex considered the Most Ancient Civilization in America. This City is part of ther 18 settlements in the Supe valley, and cover more or less 65 hectares. If you go there you will be witness of the Great Pyramid, The Amphitheater Pyramid and the Residential Quarters of the Elite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The head of the Caral project is Dr Ruth Shady, who is in charge of the excavations. She is also head of the Museum of Archaeology &amp;amp; Anthropology at he Cultural Center in Lima's San Marcos University.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Caral will give you the opportunity to go back to the past and admire the way the first peruvians used to trade with the highlands, the rainfores and the northern and southern coast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: Wikipedia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Paul Kosok discovered Caral (Chupacigarro Grande) in 1948, but it received little attention until recently because it appeared to lack many typical artifacts that were sought at archeological sites throughout the Andes at the time. Archaeologist Ruth Shady further explored the 5,000 year-old city of pyramids in the Peruvian desert, with its elaborate complex of temples, an amphitheater and ordinary houses[2]. The urban complex is spread out over 150 acres (607,000 m²) and contains plazas and residential buildings. Caral was a thriving metropolis at roughly the same time that Egypt's great pyramids were being built.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The main pyramid (Spanish: Pirámide Mayor) covers an area nearly the size of four football fields and is 60 feet (18 m) tall. Caral is the largest recorded site in the Andean region with dates older than 2000 BCE and appears to be the model for the urban design adopted by Andean civilizations that rose and fell over the span of four millennia. It is believed that Caral may answer questions about the origins of Andean civilizations and the development of the first cities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Among the artifacts found at Caral are a knotted textile piece that the excavators have labeled a quipu. They argue that the artifact is evidence that the quipu record keeping system, a method involving knots tied in rope that was brought to perfection by the Inca, was older than any archaeologist had previously guessed. However, the artifact is orders of magnitude simpler than later Inca quipu, and it is thus doubtful that it was produced as part of a robust accounting system. Indeed, many archaeologists have actually questioned whether or not it is a recording device at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No trace of warfare has been found at Caral; no battlements, no weapons, no mutilated bodies. Shady's findings suggest it was a gentle society, built on commerce and pleasure. In one of the pyramids, they uncovered 32 flutes made of condor and pelican bones and 37 cornets of deer and llama bones. One find revealed the remains of a baby, wrapped and buried with a necklace made of stone beads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They also found evidence of drug use and possibly aphrodisiacs. One theory suggests that the coca they found may be evidence that Caral sprung up as an organized coca growing and distribution centre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Caral spawns 19 other pyramid complexes scattered across the 35 square mile (80 km²) area of the Supe Valley. The find of the quipu indicates that the later Inca civilization preserved some cultural continuity from the Caral civilization. The date of 2627 BCE is based on carbon dating reed and woven carrying bags that were found in situ. These bags were used to carry the stones that were used for the construction of the pyramids. The material is an excellent candidate for dating, thus allowing for a high precision. The site may date even earlier as samples from the oldest parts of the excavation have yet to be dated.[3] The town had a population of approximately 3000 people. But there are 19 other sites in the area (posted at Caral), allowing for a possible total population of 20,000 people for the Supe valley. All of these sites in the Supe valley share similarities with Caral. They had small platforms or stone circles. Shady (2001) believes that Caral was the focus of this civilization, which itself was part of an even vaster complex, trading with the coastal communities and the regions further inland – as far as the Amazon, if the depiction of monkeys is any indication.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="610" height="482"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/L5r_9xkqnnQ&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;fs=1?color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/L5r_9xkqnnQ&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;fs=1?color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="610" height="482"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="610" height="482"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Tn_MLG7-1N8&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;fs=1?color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Tn_MLG7-1N8&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;fs=1?color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="610" height="482"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-4092265217728346257&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=true" style="width: 610px; height: 482px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-6763623182891496978?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/6763623182891496978/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=6763623182891496978' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/6763623182891496978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/6763623182891496978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/07/magic-caral-most-ancient-city-in-peru.html' title='Magic Caral the most Ancient City in Peru'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TECFkwES8_I/AAAAAAAAAyM/zO36PBrM5cg/s72-c/caral+3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-8935523161051759994</id><published>2010-07-13T18:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-13T18:58:36.196-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='justin bieber'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='impregneted her mothe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='notrh korea'/><title type='text'>Who is Justin Bieber?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TDz265jF4hI/AAAAAAAAAx0/6o7tkZDbBZo/s1600/Justin+Bieber+Peru.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 294px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TDz265jF4hI/AAAAAAAAAx0/6o7tkZDbBZo/s400/Justin+Bieber+Peru.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493537137226015250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is said that this guy (or boy) it is said to have three times more visits on internet than many rock and sport stars like David Beckham. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This boy became famous after uploading his videos on YouTube, singing songs of Steve Wonder, Justin Timberlake, etc... Then, in 2009, thanks to a record company, he released an albun with songs. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is said that this boy hates North Korea, that he died, and the last one said the he impregnated her mother. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="600" height="475"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kffacxfA7G4&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;fs=1?color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kffacxfA7G4&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;fs=1?color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="475"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what makes girls get out of her minds? there must be any kind of phenomena about this. But it is clear that with this post, I want to get more visitors =)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-8935523161051759994?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/8935523161051759994/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=8935523161051759994' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/8935523161051759994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/8935523161051759994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/07/who-is-justin-bieber.html' title='Who is Justin Bieber?'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TDz265jF4hI/AAAAAAAAAx0/6o7tkZDbBZo/s72-c/Justin+Bieber+Peru.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-8457113006324132426</id><published>2010-07-01T10:06:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-01T11:47:54.641-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Prehistoric whale fossil found in Peru'/><title type='text'>Prehistoric whale fossil found in Peru</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://portal.andina.com.pe/EDPFotografia/Thumbnail/2010%5C06%5C30%5C000129901T.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 184px;" src="http://portal.andina.com.pe/EDPFotografia/Thumbnail/2010%5C06%5C30%5C000129901T.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source Andina.&lt;/strong&gt; Scientists in Peru have discovered the fossilized  skull and jaw of a giant sperm whale, 12 million to 13 million years  old, off the coast of Peru, the journal Nature reported.  &lt;p&gt;The fossil belongs to a previously unknown genus of sperm whale and  has been named Leviathan melvillei in honor of Herman Melville, author  of "Moby Dick".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At more than 40 feet long and with a 10-foot  skull, it is the largest fossil sperm whale ever found, researcher  Olivier Lambert of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris  reported.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Modern sperm whales have relatively small teeth in their lower jaw  only, and feed by suction. The fossil specimen had teeth as long as 14  inches in both upper and lower jaws and probably killed its prey in a  manner similar to modern killer whales, Lambert said, according to UPI.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The fossil was found in ocean layers were fossils of giant sharks  have been found, and the two predators probably preyed on large marine  vertebrates like baleen whales, the Nature article said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-8457113006324132426?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/8457113006324132426/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=8457113006324132426' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/8457113006324132426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/8457113006324132426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/07/prehistoric-whale-fossil-found-in-peru.html' title='Prehistoric whale fossil found in Peru'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-6986954111507530083</id><published>2010-07-01T10:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-01T10:05:44.662-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='INXS in Lima'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Peru Concerts'/><title type='text'>INXS to play Lima in September</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://portal.andina.com.pe/EDPFotografia/Thumbnail/2010%5C06%5C30%5C000129902T.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 196px;" src="http://portal.andina.com.pe/EDPFotografia/Thumbnail/2010%5C06%5C30%5C000129902T.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lima, Jun.  30 (ANDINA).&lt;/strong&gt; Australian rock band INXS -consisting of brothers  Andrew, Tim and Jon Farris, Kirk Pengilly, Gary Gary Beers and JD  Fortune- will visit Lima to perform a spectacular concert in September. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span id="lblContenido" class="edpNoticiaContenido"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although the date of the concert will be officially announced next  week, the press indicated that the owners of New Sensation and Devil  Inside will perform in the country as part of their South American tour.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This time, the band will present their new frontman, J.D. Fortune,  winner of the Rock Star: INXS reality show, from the US television  network CBS.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;INXS has won six Australian Recording Industry Association awards  including three for 'Best Group' in 1987, 1989 and 1992, and was  inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2001. To date the Sydney-based  band has sold more than 30 million records.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-6986954111507530083?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/6986954111507530083/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=6986954111507530083' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/6986954111507530083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/6986954111507530083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/07/inxs-to-play-lima-in-september.html' title='INXS to play Lima in September'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-5551268391082937457</id><published>2010-07-01T09:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-01T09:41:19.340-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel peru'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Valle del Colca'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arequipa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Colca Canyon'/><title type='text'>Arequipa to promote community-based rural tourism for National Holidays</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCyomwrVdnI/AAAAAAAAAv4/4Lm3VgQhtew/s1600/canon-del-colca.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCyomwrVdnI/AAAAAAAAAv4/4Lm3VgQhtew/s400/canon-del-colca.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488947429712950898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source &lt;a href="http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=3YOU4mWb0EI="&gt;Andina&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="lblContenido" class="edpNoticiaContenido"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span id="lblContenido" class="edpNoticiaContenido"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Community-based  rural tourism in the Colca Valley will be one of the activities offered  to local and foreign visitors who plan to spend the National holidays in  Arequipa, the regional manager of Foreign Trade and Tourism Rocío  Cervantes said. &lt;p&gt;On the occasion of Peru’s Independence anniversary, new tourist  routes will be promoted, such as experience tourism, especially at the  Colca Valley in the province of Caylloma.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The valley of the Volcanoes and the petroglyphs of Toro Muerto, in  the province of Castilla, are some of the attractions to be promoted  during those days.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;According to Cervantes, the support to community-based rural tourism  is based on the fact that there are towens such as Sibayo, Callalli and  Tuti at the Colca Valley that offer accommodations to local and foreign  tourists.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;“More than two years ago, houses at the Colca Valley were equipped  with the support of the private sector and local governments with good  results,” she stated.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="lblContenido" class="edpNoticiaContenido"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-5551268391082937457?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/5551268391082937457/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=5551268391082937457' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/5551268391082937457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/5551268391082937457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/07/arequipa-to-promote-community-based.html' title='Arequipa to promote community-based rural tourism for National Holidays'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCyomwrVdnI/AAAAAAAAAv4/4Lm3VgQhtew/s72-c/canon-del-colca.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-8803949543306173418</id><published>2010-07-01T09:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-01T09:24:57.486-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pisco sour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fifa World Cup South Africa'/><title type='text'>Lima soccer fans enjoy World Cup 2010 with Pisco Sour</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCykoclDVNI/AAAAAAAAAvw/Ohy7SXe5YFw/s1600/Pisco+Sour+Main+Square.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 322px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCykoclDVNI/AAAAAAAAAvw/Ohy7SXe5YFw/s400/Pisco+Sour+Main+Square.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488943060631114962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Source &lt;a href="http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=ZF9fRj/rDV0="&gt;Andina&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span id="lblContenido" class="edpNoticiaContenido"&gt;Soccer fans in Lima  are enjoying every match of the FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010  drinking Pisco Sour, the Peruvian flagship drink, at renowned hotels and  restaurants of the capital city. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="lblContenido" class="edpNoticiaContenido"&gt;Almost every top hotel and restaurant in the capital city is  provided with panoramic screens where customers can see the matches  drinking their favorite cocktails and eating their favorite food.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="lblContenido" class="edpNoticiaContenido"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="lblContenido" class="edpNoticiaContenido"&gt;Five  star hotels such as the JW Marriott Lima Hotel offer theirs  customers the 2x1 special offer of Pisco Sour at the hotel's Lobby Bar,  and the 5x4 promotion for lunch time, since noon until 4pm, according to  livinginperu.com.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="lblContenido" class="edpNoticiaContenido"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="lblContenido" class="edpNoticiaContenido"&gt;Most of the restaurants offer buffets, that  include special dishes from the different regions of Peru, specially  prepared for foreign tourists.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="lblContenido" class="edpNoticiaContenido"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="lblContenido" class="edpNoticiaContenido"&gt;The mentioned hotel, for  example, offers a special buffet prepared for the occasion, with some  delicacies inspired in the gastronomies of the countries participating  in the World Cup.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span id="lblContenido" class="edpNoticiaContenido"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="lblContenido" class="edpNoticiaContenido"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-8803949543306173418?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/8803949543306173418/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=8803949543306173418' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/8803949543306173418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/8803949543306173418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/07/source-andina-soccer-fans-in-lima-are.html' title='Lima soccer fans enjoy World Cup 2010 with Pisco Sour'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCykoclDVNI/AAAAAAAAAvw/Ohy7SXe5YFw/s72-c/Pisco+Sour+Main+Square.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-115736994328590846</id><published>2010-07-01T08:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-01T09:12:15.761-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Peruvian economy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel to Machu Picchu'/><title type='text'>Peru to release inbound tourism figures for first quarter of 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://portal.andina.com.pe/EDPFotografia/Thumbnail/2010%5C05%5C04%5C000125266T.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 203px;" src="http://portal.andina.com.pe/EDPFotografia/Thumbnail/2010%5C05%5C04%5C000125266T.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lima, Jun.  30 (ANDINA).&lt;/strong&gt; Peru’s Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism,  Martin Perez, announces today inbound tourism official figures for the  first quarter and will include the outlook for the remainder of 2010.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The event, to be held at Peru’s Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism  (Mincetur) headquarters at 12.45 pm, will be attended by Deputy  Minister of Tourism, Mara Seminario; and PromPeru's director Jacqueline  Saettone. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Other participants include LAN Peru general manager, Jorge Vilchez;  Casa Andina general manager, Juan Stoessel; Lima Airport Partners (LAP)  general manager, James Daly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tthe general director of Peru’s  General Directorate of Immigration and Naturalization (Digemin), Juan  Alvarez will also attend the event.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-115736994328590846?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/115736994328590846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=115736994328590846' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/115736994328590846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/115736994328590846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/07/peru-to-release-inbound-tourism-figures.html' title='Peru to release inbound tourism figures for first quarter of 2010'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-2808037688793774155</id><published>2010-07-01T08:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-01T08:46:06.075-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='City of Lima'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Backpackers and Travelers Peru'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tourism in Peru'/><title type='text'>Lima is one of the cheapes cities for foreign tourists</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCyaD9F0f4I/AAAAAAAAAvo/A57-x0rsqws/s1600/Miraflores+Lima.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 395px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCyaD9F0f4I/AAAAAAAAAvo/A57-x0rsqws/s400/Miraflores+Lima.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488931438587051906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source &lt;a href="http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=06HOaBAEcrw="&gt;Andina&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; Lima is among the world's cheapest cities for  foreigners, according to the last Cost of Living survey conducted by the  US consultancy firm Mercer, in which the Peruvian capital ranks 135th  out of the 214 cities across the world. &lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This study was made at the end of the first quarter and measures the  comparative cost of over 200 products and services used in 300  establishments, including housing, transport, food, clothing,  entertainment and household goods.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Lima has become cheaper since last year, falling 13 places compared  last year’s survey, when ranked 22nd. The capital city reached 115th  place in 2008.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;According to Mercer, governments and multinational corporations use  this information to get an idea of the purchasing power of their  employees when transferred abroad. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;However, this also applies to tourists and businesses run by  foreigners in capitals around the world, El Comercio daily reported.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-2808037688793774155?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/2808037688793774155/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=2808037688793774155' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/2808037688793774155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/2808037688793774155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/07/lima-is-one-of-cheapes-cities-for.html' title='Lima is one of the cheapes cities for foreign tourists'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCyaD9F0f4I/AAAAAAAAAvo/A57-x0rsqws/s72-c/Miraflores+Lima.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-6975765549781659598</id><published>2010-07-01T07:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-01T08:27:47.178-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Seven Wonders'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel to Machu Picchu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Machu Picchu'/><title type='text'>Machu Picchu, 3 years as one of the new seven wonderss</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCyWzRfXiEI/AAAAAAAAAvg/KiHwWqYKcCE/s1600/Susan+Sarandon+Machu+Picchu.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 467px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCyWzRfXiEI/AAAAAAAAAvg/KiHwWqYKcCE/s400/Susan+Sarandon+Machu+Picchu.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488927853470255170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="lblContenido" class="edpNoticiaContenido"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cusco, Jun.  30 (ANDINA).&lt;/strong&gt; The municipality of Machu Picchu announced the  start of the week of celebrations to mark the third anniversary of the  Inca citadel election as one of the New Seven World Wonders.  &lt;p&gt;The activities will start tomorrow with the rising of the flag and a  contest of billboards among the local schools. There will also be a  contest of typical dances on Friday, and a show of Andean-Latin American  music.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;On Sunday, a gastronomic festival will be held with the participation  of local restaurants.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In July 2007, Machu Picchu was chosen as one of the new seven wonders  of the world in a contest organized by the New 7 Wonders Foundation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-6975765549781659598?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/6975765549781659598/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=6975765549781659598' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/6975765549781659598'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/6975765549781659598'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/07/machu-picchu-3-years-as-one-of-new.html' title='Machu Picchu, 3 years as one of the new seven wonderss'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCyWzRfXiEI/AAAAAAAAAvg/KiHwWqYKcCE/s72-c/Susan+Sarandon+Machu+Picchu.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-6106704792259457645</id><published>2010-07-01T07:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-01T07:58:18.725-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel peru'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tourism in Peru'/><title type='text'>Tourists arrivals to Peru increased 4.5%</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCyOR4JJSFI/AAAAAAAAAvY/WeU2hILVsZ4/s1600/Lima+main+Square.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCyOR4JJSFI/AAAAAAAAAvY/WeU2hILVsZ4/s400/Lima+main+Square.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488918483637454930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span id="lblContenido" class="edpNoticiaContenido"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source &lt;a href="http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=+ABFsu8OZvU="&gt;Andina&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; The international tourists arrivals to Peru in the  first half of the year would have increased by 4.5% compared to the  same period last year, Peru’s Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism  Martin Perez said Wednesday. &lt;p&gt;“This result is explained by a recovery of the arrivals to the Jorge  Chavez International Airport and to Santa Rosa Airport in Tacna,” he  said.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;If a positive outlook is maintained, the increase of international  tourists arrivals can be as high as 5.1% by the end of the year.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;“This means the arrival of  two million 249,122 international  tourists, which would surpass our previous estimate of 2.2 million,  given at the beginning of the year,” he said.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Minister Perez presented today the numbers of inbound tourism, which  revealed an increase of 4.1% in the arrival of international tourists to  the country regarding the same period last year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-6106704792259457645?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/6106704792259457645/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=6106704792259457645' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/6106704792259457645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/6106704792259457645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/07/tourists-arrivals-to-peru-increased-45.html' title='Tourists arrivals to Peru increased 4.5%'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCyOR4JJSFI/AAAAAAAAAvY/WeU2hILVsZ4/s72-c/Lima+main+Square.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-2699468947234461476</id><published>2010-06-30T12:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-30T12:50:05.835-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gastronomy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Peruvian Cousine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Peru'/><title type='text'>Peruvian gastronomy is more popular</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCuDk6RctWI/AAAAAAAAAvQ/hQwZm9WSPmM/s1600/Rocoto+relleno.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCuDk6RctWI/AAAAAAAAAvQ/hQwZm9WSPmM/s400/Rocoto+relleno.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488625241022051682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This is an article from &lt;a href="http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=29vNtdfEiiY="&gt;Andina News Agency&lt;/a&gt;; and show us how people around the world begins to admire Peruvian cousine and excellent dishes. Thanks to Peruvians like Gastón Acurio, our Peruvian dishes like cebiche, Pisco Sour, or even Pollo a la Brasa are getting well known around the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="600" height="485"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ARfIXzxxAHs&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ARfIXzxxAHs&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="485"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Lima, Jun. 29 (ANDINA). Peru’s gastronomy reputation is increasingly growing in Britain and Europe as Peruvian entrepreneurs make more efforts to open restaurants abroad and participate in world food festivals promoting typical dishes rising worldwide interest and demand, said British Ambassador to Peru, Catherine Nettleton.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I enjoy the food in Lima. Peru's reputation is already growing in the gastronomic field. I'm sure there will be much more awareness of what Peru has to offer in the gastronomic field in the future”, she said to Andina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;British Ambassador said she hopes there could be more Peruvian restaurants in London as there are only two now, which are not enough for the British demand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ambassador Nettleton also stated that Great Britain is the largest sender of tourists to Peru with an estimated 67,000 tourists coming this year, but the number will still grow as the global economy recovers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Peru has fantastic amounts of things to offer to tourists all over the world. I hope the number of visitors can grow. Currently, 67,000 tourists come from Britain but the tendency grows. Last year there was a small deep but the tendency is growing every year”, she said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She said a rapid recovery of tourism is expected this year because Britons are great travelers and Peru is on the spotlight, so there won’t be another fall but an increase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nettleton stated that Peru’s tourism top attractions are very well known all over the world, but it is necessary to work on promoting new tourists destinations and packages for special travelers such as birdwatchers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“A lot of people know about Machu Picchu. But Peru should expand knowledge of other tourist attractions. People from abroad focus on just a few places in Peru, such as Lima, Cusco, Machu Picchu, Puno, Arequipa, but there are many more places,” she said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many British like birdwatching, and they go to very remote parts of the jungle and do many new things, she added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ambassador Nettleton made these statements before leaving Peru to be replaced by Edward Dauris as the British new Ambassador to Peru.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-2699468947234461476?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/2699468947234461476/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=2699468947234461476' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/2699468947234461476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/2699468947234461476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/06/peruvian-gastronomy-is-more-popular.html' title='Peruvian gastronomy is more popular'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCuDk6RctWI/AAAAAAAAAvQ/hQwZm9WSPmM/s72-c/Rocoto+relleno.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-7255750879520732319</id><published>2010-06-30T09:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-30T11:42:11.810-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tourism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='guide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='city tour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='City of Lima'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Restaurants'/><title type='text'>¿Where to eat in Lima? a List of nice restaurants in the City of the Kings</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCtvK3YIyDI/AAAAAAAAAu4/an5T1HvQTrI/s1600/anticuchos+peru.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCtvK3YIyDI/AAAAAAAAAu4/an5T1HvQTrI/s400/anticuchos+peru.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488602803335645234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;Anticuchos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;meta equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;&lt;meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.2  (Win32)"&gt;&lt;style type="text/css"&gt; 	&lt;!-- 		@page { margin: 2cm } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } 	--&gt; 	&lt;/style&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;The restaurants in Lima combine a mix of flavours due to the different cultures settled down in the past in Peru.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Restaurants &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can get a menu &lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;for € 2-3 which is very cheap and you can get a delicious lunch, for instance in  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Machu Picchu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;, Ancash 312  which is open in any case during the day. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;El Cordano&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;, corner Carabaya / Ancash (by the old train station in Lima), Is one of the oldest bars or taverns in Lima. It's always overcrowded at lunch time, but waiting on an empty seat is worth: Lunch from € 2, fish dishes from € 2.50, and Cebiche from  € 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The better restaurants are in Plaza San Martín and Plaza Mayor, unfortunately, they has become relatively expensive, such as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;The Parilla San Martín,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; in La Colmena Av.  in Plaza San Martin, Tue-Sun 12-24 Hours, Good meat in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;El Palacio de las Parrillas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;, Jr. de la Unión 1091, Maybe you would like to go with the French nuns of  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;L'eau Vive&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;, Ucayali 370, Tel: 427-5712, you eat for € 5-6;  Mon-Sat 19.30-21.30 and 12.30-15 Uhr. All evening until 22 clock.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very good Peruvian cuisine is at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Las Brisas del Mar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;, Berlín 334 &lt;/span&gt;Tel: 424-1240  &lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; There's a daily menu for just € 3, a la carte from €4. &lt;/span&gt;A branch office is located at Av. Aviación 2887 in San Borja. &lt;b&gt;Nueva Cocina Peruana. Huaca Pucllana,&lt;/b&gt; Borgoño, Huaca Pucllana (Miraflores) rustic ambience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Manos Morenas&lt;/b&gt; Av. Pedro de Osma 409 in Barranco, Tel: 467-4902, fax: 467-0421. 12.30-16,30 Hours, and 19 to 23.30,  they have some of  best Peruvian cuisine. Wed-Sat. Every night they offer a folklore show, worth seeing, but not cheap. &lt;b&gt;A Puerta Cerrada&lt;/b&gt;, Av. Bolognesi 752, also in Barranco, offers a comprehensive menu of delicious fish up to about Mariscos delicious meat dishes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neat and not expensive are the restaurants &lt;b&gt;Mr. Koala&lt;/b&gt;, Camaná block 5, and &lt;b&gt;Wally's&lt;/b&gt; 194 Emancipacion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if you are in a mood of Pizza and Pasta, you can always go to  Boulevard San Ramon in Miraflores (pedestrian zone between Bella Vista and Diagonal)  Right and left of the street you will see lots of Pizzerías .&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;The best pizzeria Gloriette, San Ramon  225, Simply choose an empty seat and watch with a beer or wine jug the strolling people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCtv_nMW8yI/AAAAAAAAAvA/tc3mGsVkLjU/s1600/Calle+de+las+Pizzas+Lima.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCtv_nMW8yI/AAAAAAAAAvA/tc3mGsVkLjU/s400/Calle+de+las+Pizzas+Lima.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488603709524341538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;Calle de las Pizzas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Many Chifas offer  very cheap meals anywhere in Lima,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Chifa Xiao Hui,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; Lampa 410, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Chifa Tic Tac,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; Callao. &lt;/span&gt;One of the best Chifas in Lima for over 25 years is &lt;b&gt;Chifa Internacional&lt;/b&gt;, Av. &lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Panamericana 5915, San Antonio Mo-Th. &lt;/span&gt;12.30 to 15.30 and 19-23.30 Hours, Gallina con Tausi taste, delicious!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Chicken - BBQ stations (Pollo a la Brasa)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; offer the most fortunate prices and any desired amount of chicken. Everywhere in the city are the-cheap and good chicken barbecue stations of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Roky's &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;- Pollo house service: Pollo a la &lt;/span&gt;Brasa, Tel :438-1538 and 955-8307. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Chicken Express,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; Av. &lt;/span&gt;Diagonal, Miraflores. Tel: 241-8112 Mon-Sun 12-1 Hours. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Norky's&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; (Pardo / Atahualpa) near Ovalo Miraflores. &lt;/span&gt;The best chicken barbecue in Lima is  &lt;b&gt;Granja Azul,&lt;/b&gt; Av. &lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCtxK6WXO9I/AAAAAAAAAvI/77UkF0uq_lE/s1600/Pollo+a+la+brasa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCtxK6WXO9I/AAAAAAAAAvI/77UkF0uq_lE/s400/Pollo+a+la+brasa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488605003156765650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial;font-size:85%;" &gt;Pollo a la Brasa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Vegetarian &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;dishes are in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Nature&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;, Moquegua132, very good value set menus and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;La Naturaleza,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; Lampa 440, on the table - priced vegetarian dishes in a pleasant atmosphere also in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Biche - Burner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; , Miraflores, Diez Canseco 487, 444-4250, Tues-Sat &lt;/span&gt;8.30-22.30 Hours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Churros y Chocolate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Manolo, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; Av Larco 608 (in front of Banco de Crédito) daily sampled from 7 -1 clock in the morning. A very good cafe in Miraflores:  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Café - Café,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; Martir Olaya 250 (near Parque Kennedy), Tel: 447-6564, 8.30-3.30 Hours.. &lt;/span&gt;Branches Larco Mar, Nicolas de Rivera 106 and 258 Surco Monterrey. More cafes are close to  Ovalo Gutierrez,: &lt;b&gt;Mangos &lt;/b&gt;789, Miraflores, Mon-Wed Thu-Sun 7.30-3 7.30-1 Hours. &lt;b&gt;C&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;afé Amarelo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;, Av. Jorge Basadre 395, San isidro, Tel 442-0791, Mon-Sun 9-1 Hours  Happy Hour daily from 17-21, good entertainment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best Pisco Sour is in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Hotel Simon Bolivar,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; but for this you will pay € 7 to lie down on the counter. The Pisco Sour at  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Rosa Nautica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; and  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Costa Verde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; are very good too. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Cebicheria - Tips: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Surf Fish&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;, Bolognesi 229, Miraflores. &lt;/span&gt;In this seafood restaurant the  Seafood buffet include a rich twelve different varieties of ceviche, sole with shrimp, crawfish dishes, etc. For just  € 13. &lt;b&gt;Cebicheria Charitos&lt;/b&gt;, Av. &lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Brasil 2664, Pueblo Libre, very good fish dishes as well as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;El Manuel Lojo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;, near the beach in Chorrillos. Good ceviche and pork rinds are also &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;La Corvina,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; Callao 219 served. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;La Choza Nautica&lt;/b&gt;, Breña 204, tasty ceviche Wed medium price range.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCttEZRhDVI/AAAAAAAAAuw/lZTC-TwEhS0/s1600/Pisco+Sour+Peruvian.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCttEZRhDVI/AAAAAAAAAuw/lZTC-TwEhS0/s400/Pisco+Sour+Peruvian.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488600493152341330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pisco Sour&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCtre28M9pI/AAAAAAAAAug/U7_mg80AHNo/s1600/Ceviche+Peruano.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCtre28M9pI/AAAAAAAAAug/U7_mg80AHNo/s400/Ceviche+Peruano.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488598748769351314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Cebiche&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Mariscos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; (seafood), fish and ceviche in all variations offers the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Rincón Marino,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; Av. 2 de Mayo 781, tel: 444-5088 in Miraflores, however upmarket, Cheaper is the friendly &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Rincon Chileno&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;, Camana, 234, in addition to excellent seafood and meat dishes is on the map. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Punta Sa&lt;/b&gt;l, fish - and seafood, Av. Conquistadores 948, San Isidro, 11-17.30 Hours, and Jorge Chávez 694, Miraflores, 11-17.30 Hours. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Cebicheria Barranco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;, Panamericana Sur 270, Barranco, daily Tel: 467-4560, 9.30-17 Clock, specialties: Chitas, tacu tacu de mariscos, ceviche de Conchas Negras. &lt;/span&gt;Another fish - and seafood - TIP, the cheapest and probably the best fish (and be applied to the Mariscos)  cant be tryied in the Peruvian fishermen Bars of the old port in La Punta in Callao, and Chorrillos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Great Restaurants &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Three restaurants with unusual atmosphere (upper price class)&lt;b&gt; Rosa Nautica, ESPIGON 4&lt;/b&gt; (Costa Verde, Miraflores), Tel: 447-0057, 12-24 Hours: Sea views, imaginative lunch buffet, excellent Mariscos. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Costa Verde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;, Playa Barranquito, Tel: 477-2172, 12-24 Hours: Large daily buffet, Happy Hour 17 to 19.30 hours, also excellent Mariscos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tenedor Brujas de Cachiche&lt;/b&gt;, Av. Bolognesi 460, Tel: 444-5310.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8849762171578532387-7255750879520732319?l=luisdurand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/feeds/7255750879520732319/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8849762171578532387&amp;postID=7255750879520732319' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/7255750879520732319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8849762171578532387/posts/default/7255750879520732319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luisdurand.blogspot.com/2010/06/where-to-eat-in-lima-list-of-nice.html' title='¿Where to eat in Lima? a List of nice restaurants in the City of the Kings'/><author><name>Luis Durand</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/S_qQ0_2ISsI/AAAAAAAAAks/fXPTUy_YLgM/S220/00001luisjesusblog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCtvK3YIyDI/AAAAAAAAAu4/an5T1HvQTrI/s72-c/anticuchos+peru.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8849762171578532387.post-1987628869558793432</id><published>2010-06-24T23:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-24T12:55:28.019-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hotels in Lima'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bed and Breakfast  in Peru'/><title type='text'>Hotels, Hostels and Bed &amp; Breakfast in Lima</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCOZbCvZVPI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/97XnOdCmaeE/s1600/Plaza+Mayor.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TCOZbCvZVPI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/97XnOdCmaeE/s400/Plaza+Mayor.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486397460938577138" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Lima centre has been changing during the last years.But there are still some unsafe places to put you up in Lima centre. There are good hotels available in the district of San Isidro; you can even find some better (and more expensive) places in Miraflores. The advantege here is that you have the beach close to you. The average costs for a double room is about €50, a triple occupancy is a little bit more expensive; but you can get room from €5.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TAZgDSV4q0I/AAAAAAAAAmc/CMosOdA9cD8/s1600/B%26B+in+Lima.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_25_3Mw8bZKM/TAZgDSV4q0I/AAAAAAAAAmc/CMosOdA9cD8/s400/B%26B+in+Lima.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478171606322293570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The categorization of the accommodations here follows a simple but clear pattern. It is divided into the three major price categories, namely, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ECO&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FAM&lt;/span&gt;, and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LUX.&lt;/span&gt; They are always based on double room (DR) BZM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ECO:&lt;/span&gt; Economic - Inexpensive and easy, but the lowest price range should not be too much as expected. Prices to 20 € /day; in regard to BUDGET which price is below 10 € / double room.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FAM:&lt;/span&gt; Familiar - families - and middle-class hotels, tourist hotels. In Lima there are in the middle, with a few exceptions (eg Hotel Kamana, Hotel Las Palmas), only older hotels often disproportionately expensive. Prices 20-50 from € /day&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lux:&lt;/span&gt; Luxury (Spanish Lujo) - from 50 € /day up!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;AC&lt;/span&gt; - Air Conditioner (aire acondicionado);&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bc&lt;/span&gt; - Baño Común (shared bathroom)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;bp &lt;/span&gt;- baño privado (rooms with bath / wc);&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;POOL &lt;/span&gt;- swimming pool;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rest&lt;/span&gt; -Restaurant,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;B&amp;amp;B&lt;/span&gt; - accommodation incl . your breakfast; Laundry Service; Ww hot - water, gplv - good price - performance ratio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;Lima Centre&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ECO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hotelespanaperu.com/espanol/inicio.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hostal España (budget).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Azángaro 105/ corner with  Ancash Av., Telf: 4279196 and 4285546, fertur@correo.denet.com.pe Popular Traveller - meeting place with atmosphere and plants, from 3 Stock runterwachsen, Greek stowed roof garden, very simple (r 9-12 very loudly) in the evening from 20 video clock, the associated cafe is good. D / bc € 6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://hotels.lonelyplanet.com/peru/lima-r1977381/hostal-belen-p1037723/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hostal Belen&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;Jr. de la Unión 1049 4278995 tel simple, centrally traveler - Treff, bc.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hostal Rucas&lt;/span&gt; (Budget) Jr de la Unión 428 Tel: 428 6102 d / bp starting from 8 €&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hotel La Perricholi &lt;/span&gt;Jiron Camaná 1180 Tel: 4316441 Simple r, bp&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hostal El Sol&lt;/span&gt; Jr. Rufino Torrico 773 (not visible from the outside), tel: 428-1353; calm, d / bp 12 €&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hostal La Estrella de Belen&lt;/span&gt;    Jr. de La Unión 1050, Tel: 428-6462 Fax: 428-6462 Not always pb, Double Room €14&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;B&amp;amp;B Charo y Paul&lt;/span&gt; Av. Tacna dpto. 1301 Tel: 964-5906 or 890-0590. Single room €10, double room €20. &lt;span id="result_box" class="short_text"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(230, 236, 249); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" title=""&gt;a stylishly furnished apartment. Reservations are recommended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ECO/FAM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hostal Machu Picchu&lt;/span&gt; Cailloma 231, Tel: 428-3520 &lt;span id="result_box" class="short_text"&gt;&lt;span style="" title=""&gt;Large room with large windows and tv, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" title=""&gt; private bathroom. It has Restauran, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hotel Balcón Dorado&lt;/span&gt; Ucayali 199. Tel: 427-6028, mobile phone: 922-1188, email: balcondora
