Lima, Peru | Saturday 07 November 2009 18:36 | | |

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Only a few times a year do Peruvians forget about their material worries to follow the path of faith. This time the protagonist of their religious devotion is the Lord of Luren, patron of Ica.
All kinds of saints arrive at 47 year-old Edwin Ramírez Mendoza’s house to entrust their souls to him. Most of the time they come during emergencies, after having had an accident. Some have broken legs, others burnt wooden faces, there are also some headless virgins and angels. There are, as well, some idols that have not suffered any kind of mutilation but are just looking to regain the splendor that they had decades ago.
This week LivinginPeru.com will begin a monthly publication on up and coming Peruvian products.
This week LivinginPeru.com will start a new monthly publication which will feature articles about life in various Peruvian cities and towns. This month we are featuring the jungle city of Iquitos, in an article written by Tom Schrieber. Tom is a freelance communicator, copywriter and events consultant. Hailing from Great Britain, he is currently working with indigenous communities in the Amazon.
Every day at exactly 6:00 PM Luis Alberto, my taxi driver, picks me up to make my way to the University. We usually take my favorite route, “the beach road”.
The maximum representative of Nestle, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, a company which sells over $100,000 million a year, arrived in Peru a few days ago to attend to various subjects: to speak about the opportunities and responsibilities of the businessmen in a globalized economy; the 125 year anniversary celebration of bilateral relations between Peru and Switzerland; and to hike the mountains of the Cordillera Blanca in Huaraz. We had the opportunity to talk to him about his vision on the long-term global situation and his experiences in Peru.
As we approach our 100th edition of "Peru this Week" we are pleased to inform all our fine readers that we have nearly reached our goal of achieving 30,000 subscribers! However we are not content to stop there, and would like to achieve 50,000 subscribers by 2010!
"Peru this Week" was founded with the ambition of alerting the world to all the magnificent sights, events, flavors (our gastronomy is second to none), and cultural pageantry that can be found in this spectacular country! We deeply appreciate the enthusiasm our readers have shown for our publication. Thank you for your continuing help in spreading the word, and ARRIBA PERU!
What do Wall Street execs have in common with the world's poorest people? Plenty.
Although it's hard to believe, Wall Street's Gucci-wearing financiers actually have quite a bit in common with slum dwellers in Kenya and Mumbai at the moment—they're both mired in shadow economies, where basic facts like who owns what are nearly impossible to determine. That murkiness, says Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, is the source of the continuing credit crunch gripping New York, London and other financial capitals, and a basic fact of life for much of the developing world.
El Comercio
Why does the dollar continue to increase in spite of it being the currency around which the financial crisis began and what is the recession currently centered on?
First of all, as many experts will explain, this is because there is no other currency to replace it with (nearly all world commercial transactions are done with dollars) and secondly because uncertainty leads to the search for liquidity. The dollar and the U.S. treasury bonds –which are bought as dollars- are the most liquid and secure on the planet.
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