A wedding in the family- May 28, 2006 Last weekend, my family and I went up to New York City to attend the wedding of a niece, Ana Lucia Torres, so it was a big family affair. She married Paul Dunkle, a guy that she met shortly after graduating from Hofstra University. Their wedding was at Riverside Church, which proved to be a striking stage for their ceremony, reception and dinner. The occassion brought together relatives andhttp://www.gci275.com/log/2006/05/wedding-in-family.shtml Alan with a 14 point lead- May 8, 2006 In the first opinion polls of the presidential run-off race, Alan Garcia has 57 percent and Ollanta Humala has 43 percent, according to the Apoyo polling agency. Humala is much stronger in provinces than in Lima. In a telling sidelight, 14 percent of those interviewed said that they would vote black or invalid, while 7 percent did not express a preference. Those votes may hide additional voteshttp://www.gci275.com/log/2006/05/alan-with-14-point-lead.shtml It's now official- May 6, 2006 We will now have a presidential run-off elections between Ollanta Humala and Alan Garcia. Both have a tainted personal history -- the first as a military frontline commander in the Huallaga valley who in all likelihood commited or condoned human rights abuses, and the second as a young politician who wasted a historial opportunity to consolidate democracy in the country. Pick the lesser of twohttp://www.gci275.com/log/2006/05/its-now-official.shtml Soy Andina- May 2, 2006 Mitch Teplitsky's Soy Andina: "Soy Andina is an exuberant cross-cultural road trip, bursting with traditional music and dance rarely seen outside the country. But the core story is intimate and universal: a yearning for roots and connection in turbulent times." Mitch has been working on this documentary for years, a real labor of love for Peru and its people. I can't even remember when I firsthttp://www.gci275.com/log/2006/05/soy-andina.shtml |