Education Ministry to promote Vargas Llosa works following author’s Nobel award

Peru’s Education Ministry will promote the works of acclaimed Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, in the nation’s school system, the deputy minister of education management, Idel Vexler, said. “The idea is to incorporate in the readings each month the works of Mario Vargas Llosa. The [...]

Executive sends to Congress bill to repeal decree 1097 following Vargas Llosa resignation from Memory Museum

In a letter sent to President Alan Garcia, Vargas Llosa said the decree “in all forms, constitutes an amnesty barely disguised to benefit a good number of people connected to the dictatorship and convicted or prosecuted for human rights crimes – murders, tortures, disappearances – among them the ex-dictator [Alberto Fujimori] and his right-hand man [Vladimiro Montesinos].”

Peru’s Garcia does about-face on German donation to build memorial museum for victims of political violence

A month after he was harshly criticized for rejecting Germany’s $2 million donation to build a museum to honor the memory of the 70,000 people who died during Peru’s 1980-2000 dirty war with Maoist Shining Path Guerrillas, President Alan Garcia has changed his mind, and announced that he will move forward with the museum’s construction. [...]

“I sing to women who have impacted me with their courage,” interview with rising singer-actress Magaly Solier

Translated from a special report published in daily Peru21: By José Gabriel Chueca In collaboration with Phantom Records, Magaly Solier – the star of  the award-winning Peruvian films “The Milk of Sorrow” and “Madeinusa” – will launch her first CD, titled “Warmi.” Although cinema brought her world fame, recording an album was always her childhood dream. And [...]

Subcommittee to recommend investigation of ALBA cultural centers

Legislators conducting a preliminary investigation into the financing of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, ALBA, cultural centers will reportedly recommend to Congress a larger probe to determine the influence of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Peru’s internal affairs. The congressional subcommittee’s head, lawmaker Rolando Souza, will request Congress’ Foreign Relations Commission create an investigative [...]

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