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...thing the Square's Oktoberfest is not is authentic or traditional, unless Peruvian music and Tibetan food qualify as German customs...
...Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori recently declared that new presidential elections would be held in his country, and that he would not be a candidate. This announcement comes only seven weeks into Fujimori's landmark third term as president, after he was elected in May and inaugurated this July. Although he did not say how soon the new elections would be held, Fujimori's decision to step down came when a videotape surfaced showing the Chief of Peru's Secret Service bribing a Peruvian lawmaker in attempts to get him to ally with Fujimori's political party...
Corruption is nothing new in Fujimori's ten-year-old administration. In 1997, he fired three of the seven members of Peru's Constitutional Tribunal, allowing himself to run for a third five-year term--even though the Peruvian Constitution explicitly limits a president to two terms. After his May victory, Fujimori was internationally criticized for his use of a fraudulent signature campaign as well as smear and harassment tactics against his opponent...
Feeling incredibly groggy from the early morning humidity of the Peruvian jungle, the last thing I expected in the midst of a tiny airport filled with otherwise non-English speaking travelers was an attack by a Latina woman fluent in English and insults. Earlier in the morning, as she talked vehemently in French to a rather sallow-looking artiste, her extreme poise had pleasantly invaded my stupor. Placing her immaculately dressed self to my left, she leaned over the arm of my chair, swept her eyes vertically down my mud splattered clothing and inspected my face solemnly. Finally, I attested...
Sitting in the Peruvian airport, listening to the avid beliefs of one, intrepid Colombian woman, I was embarrassed to admit my own nation advocated ruthless military aid as a "solution" to a much more complicated problem of poverty and political beliefs. Rather than attacking the narco-traffickers, drug lords and guerillas, the United States' policy will jeopardize the lives of thousands of already impoverished and entirely innocent people...