· August, 2006

Stories about Peru from August, 2006

Peru: Mining Conflict

Living in Peru on a recent conflict between settlers from Combayo and the neighboring Yanacocha gold mine and its potential effect on foreign investment.

31 August 2006

Ecuador, Peru: Discovery Kids on YouTube

Christian Espinosa describes a nephew who prefers watching Discovery Kids (Lazy Town) on YouTube (ES) rather than the television or the program's own website. Bruno Ortiz has more links on...

28 August 2006

Global Food Blog Report #29

#1: Maika's Blog on Haitian Food: "Griot" (pronounced: greee-yo ) a popular Haitian original.  Which is fried pork shoulder accompanied with a spicy hot as habanero cole slaw like condiment...

28 August 2006

Blogging the Week in Peru

Este artículo también está disponible es español. These past few days, apart from the appointments of new government employees, it has been President Garcia's dogged persistence in fulfilling some of...

27 August 2006

Peru: Floréame

William Wong Garay introduces (ES) his newest initiative, Floréame (ES), a Peruvian-focused, Digg-like community which uses the same open source code as Menéame (ES). It has also been integrated on...

24 August 2006

Peru: Audio of Film Festival Seminars

Did you miss last week's Festival Elcine in Lima, Peru? Not to worry, the audio from the lectures and seminars have all been released for free on the internet, according...

16 August 2006

Peru: Music: Remix Culture

Oscar Montezuma introduces Novamlima, the new project of Miki Gonzales. According to Montezuma (ES) the new album is “another glimpse of Peru's remix culture.”

16 August 2006

Peru: Blog Day Festivities

Blogday Peru (ES) is the official blog of, you guessed it, Blog Day 2006 in Peru. On August 31st various members of Peru's blogging community will gather at Instituto San...

15 August 2006

Posts from Peru

Some of the recent political news inspired new posts in Peruvian blogs; here are some of them: Jomra takes a look at Quechua in Congress: a small step for a...

12 August 2006

Food Blog Report #27

#1: From Stockholm, Sweden: Clivia's Cuisine and her marvelous Swiss chard dolmadas with rice and mushrooms! A gem of a recipe, and it looks delicious… Last week I visited Rosendals...

7 August 2006

Peru: Fiestas Patrias

Este artículo también está disponible en español. The National Holidays (“fiestas patrias”) have passed and, with a new ruling government at the helm, let's briefly look at what some of...

3 August 2006

Peru: Garcia Inaugurated Toledo Relaxing

Maxwell A. Cameron links to a summary of President Garcia's inaugural speech (ES) while Living in Peru says that former president, Alejandro Toledo is already relaxing at the coastal town...

2 August 2006

American Dictionary

There is a persistent myth which says that, save Brazil and a few indigenous communities, Latin America speaks a singular, uniform language. In fact, the Castilian Spanish carried over by...

1 August 2006