La Primera Op-Ed: Obama, global warming and the world war against drugs

Editorial column from Monday’s La Primera By Roger Rumrill (Director of the Center for Indigenous Cultures of Peru) Although the 10-point advantage over Republican John McCain’s has shortened in the past several days, polls in the United States and the rest of the world show Barack Obama as the winner of tomorrow’s presidential elections, unless [...]

Peru.21 Op-Ed: A black man in the White House, the historic significance of triumph for Barack Obama

Editorial from today’s Peru.21 newspaper: By Augusto Álvarez Rodrich (Director of Peru.21) If the poll projections are not mistaken, a historic event should be realized tonight for the cause of fundamental rights of humanity: The arrival for the first time to the U.S. Presidency of a person of the black race to command the destiny [...]

El Comercio Op-Ed: Hoping for Obama

Excerpted editorial from Monday’s El Comercio newspaper: By Dr. Enrique Bernales Ballesteros (Doctor of Law, constitutionalist, Executive Director of the Andean Jurists Commission) If, as millions of people hope, Barack Obama is elected President of the United States, his election will imply change of worldwide dimensions. It will be the first time a man of [...]

Peru President García and new Cabinet chief, Yehude Simon, to choose ministers after oil kickback scandal

President Alan García met for nearly three hours Sunday morning with his new Cabinet chief, Yehude Simon, to chart a course to rebuild an administration that in a few days was decimated by an oil concession kickback scandal that forced all of his government ministers to turn in their resignations. García tapped Simon, 61, to [...]

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