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Isabel Guerra

Police captured two suspects who could be related to the death of young accountant Maria Paola Vargas Ortiz, who died two weeks ago.

According to a RPP Noticias information, the Police has detained two members of "Aguante" from Surco, a group of supporters of Universitario de Deportes at Trinchera Norte.

Ronny Ramos Pérez, aka "Bolón" a member of this group, has been accused of pushing her out of the bus, with the aim of stealing her iPod and cell phone.

National Police hasn't revealed the identity of these individuals aiming not to disturb the investigations.

The Directorate of Criminal Investigation is looking forward the capture of 'Bolon', who has time until Friday noon to go to the police to answer the accusations made against him.

Meanwhile, lawyer Manuel Frisancho has asked Defensoría del Pueblo and the Archbishopric of Lima for guarantees for his client, because he is afraid Ramos could be taken under arrest as soon as he goes to the police.

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Isabel Guerra

Patricio Tapia, a conspicuous Chilean journalist specialized in wine, gave up to the Peruvian pisco: he published an article last week at Wikén magazine of El Mercurio paper, admitting that Peruvian pisco sour is better than the Chilean one.

"Ours is lemon juice of pisco. That's it," he wrote; adding that only in Peru we get that "voluptuous and refreshing mixture of acidity and a sensation of creaminess.”

Tapia analyzes the differences between our pisco and the Chilean one. "The quebranta, which is the base of the most traditional Peruvian piscos, seems to not exist in our country." Tapia explains that in Chile is a common practice to mix stocks, in Peru it's done in a specific way. The acholado pisco always uses aromatic grapes with stocks with more body.

Peruvian pisco isn't brought up in kegs, as the Chilean one, but in steel or plastic crock or in the traditional chalk jar to not to distort the expression of the stock. And one more detail: the year of vintage is indicated at our pisco bottles.

Another important difference is that in Peru water is not needed to lower the level of alcohol. "Peruvians feel it as a sacrilege because it distorts the character of the distillation, so they choose the portion suitable to the gradation of their pisco."

Finally Tapia says Peruvian pisco is more rich and diverse, due to the number of national farmers who try to give a high quality pisco.

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Isabel Guerra

The Regional Direction of Health of Huanuco (DIRESA) got a total of 28,800 vaccines against pneumococcus, cause of infections like pneumonia or meningitis, from the Ministery of Health (MINSA).

Heriberto Hidalgo Carrasco, director of DIRESA, stressed that the batch of vaccines will decrease the number of cases of respiratory diseases, and deaths related to pneumonia.

DIRESA Huanuco received also a batch of vaccines against rotavirus and pediatric influenza. Immunization against pneumonia requires three doses: the first one at three-month-old age, the second one at five-month-old, and the last one at one-year old age.

Finally, Hidalgo informed that in the following days a workshop will be given to analyze a research on maternal mortality, chronic child malnutrition, transmissible infectious diseases and TB.

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Isabel Guerra

The aerial potato, cultivated by 'aeroponía' to get a larger amount of seed of this tuber, could contribute to the food crisis of the world and reduce the effects of the global warming.

Carlos Chuquillanqui, Agronomus Engineer, member of the 'aeroponía' project of Potato International Center (CIP) made this affirmation at an international exposition in Lima to introduce the last researches and projects on roots and tubers.

Chuquillanqui explained that 'aeroponía' tried to get an alternative to produce potato seeds in a effective way, to have control over infections and avoid the use of chemicals.
 
With this technique, some 45,000 potatoes are produced in seven months time, while using traditional techniques 35,000 potatoes are produced over two years.

Meanwhile, Chuquillanqui pointed out that 'aeroponía', which has already been used in Cerro de Pasco, works only to produce more seeds, but not to farm plants because the process is too expensive.

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Isabel Guerra

Fiorentina made three goals in only nine minutes and won 5-2 to Debrecen at day 4 of group E of UEFA Champions League.

Romanian Adrian Mutu scored the first goal for the Italian team at 14th, and then Dario Dainelli (52nd), Ricardo Montolivo (59th), Marco Marchionni (61st) from a Vargas assistance, and Alberto Gilardino (74th).

Gergely Rudolf at 39th made the transitory 1-1 for the Hungarian team. And when Fiorentina was delighted with the triumph, French player  Adamo Coulibaly at 70th scored the second one for his team.

Vargas was substituted at the 77th minute by Santana. Fiorentina overplayed today's rival, controlling the whole game. Vargas' team is second at Lyon with 9 points. The French team leads the group with 10 points.

Liverpool after tying 2-2 with Lyon is third with 4 points, and Debrecen is last with no points.

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Isabel Guerra

Peruvian Gonzalo Begazo appears among most influential Hispanic in the technology world in  the USA, according to a list made known by HITEC (Hispanic IT Executive Council).

Begazo, graduated in Administration and Accounting at University of Pacifico (Lima), was selected by HITEC in its exclusive list of 100 top technology executives of the United States. He is presently working in Mountain View (California) as a  North America and Consolidations Controller for Google.

The criteria for the selection of the most influential Hispanic was the evaluation of his competence in the industry, professional level, responsibility range, positions held at their companies, as well as participation in directories and several initiatives.

HITEC (Hispanic IT Executive Council) was founded in 2006 by a group of Hispanic senior executives who consider there aren't enough Hispanics with leadership roles in the information technologies sector.

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Isabel Guerra

Some 20 countries have confirmed their presence in the upcoming International Fishing and Aquaculture Fair called Expo Pesca & Acuiperu 2009, to be held from November 12 to 14 in Lima, according to the event’s organizer, Thais Corporation.

It will take place at Jockey Plaza Conventions Center, and some of the participating countries are Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Korea, Denmark, Ecuador, Spain, United States, France, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Morocco, Uruguay, and Sweden.  

Expo Pesca is the only international fair specialized in fishing and aquaculture that takes place every two years in Peru since 2003, and this year's edition is expected to be visited by 14,000 people.

In addition, the fair expects to close deals over US $70 million dollars during the next 12 months.

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Isabel Guerra

One of the most famous popular questions in Peru, since the early seventies, is “En qué momento se jodió el Perú?” which means in English, literally, “In what moment did Peru get screwed up?” Many times in Peru's difficult history, Peruvians have helplessly repeated that question, which was first formulated by Zavalita, the main character of Mario Vargas Llosa's Novel “Conversación en La Catedral” (Conversation in The Cathedral).

Nowadays, things are changing positively for the country. Movistar, the cell phone company, not only borrows Zavalita's phrase, but also turns it into a positive motto. Their new television advertisement states “When did Peru get straighten up?” which conveys a message of solidarity: we all can make a difference in our daily lives, to reach the dream that Peruvian Poet Cesar Vallejo's verses express: “cuándo nos veremos con los demás, al borde una mañana eterna, desayunados todos?” (When will we all meet, at the edge of an eternal morning, with a good breakfast?”)

We all can make a difference to improve our country and that's not only a wishful dream, and companies like Movistar are working to help Peruvians keep really in touch with their loved ones and reach people that otherwise would be unreachable. And they convey all of this in this meaningful television advertisement. To see the advertisement, click on the image to the right.

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Isabel Guerra

Canatur (Chamber of Tourism) President, Fernando Puga, said that, in his opinion, a Tourism Ministry should be created before a Culture Ministry, due to its importance as an economic activities generator.

He said that this is the best time to discuss the establishment of a ministry dedicated exclusively to tourism, and said objections about allegedly creating more bureaucracy or increasing government spending do not have a real background.

"I do not understand why the president of Peru uses this as an argument for not creating a Tourism Ministry, and at the same time creates an Environment Ministry and a Culture Ministry. Those are sectors that are way behind tourism regarding generator of business and economic activities,” he remarked.

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Small surf in the one-foot (0.5 metre) and onshore winds have forced event organizers to call competition off for the day at the Movistar Peru Classic presented by Rip Curl.

Event No. 5 of 7 on the 2009 ASP Women's World Tour, the Movistar Peru Classic is dealing with the challenging logistics of running at the ideal venue of Lobitos, whose sand-bottom left handers have been referred to as the "Superbank in reverse," while staff and surfers stay over an hour's drive north in Mancora. Despite today's less-than-ideal conditions, a good swell is expected Friday.

"There are some small waves out there this morning, but we've opted to call competition off for the day," Richie Porta, ASP Women's World Tour Head Judge, said. "Obviously, with the swell coming, we're opting to wait for much better conditions."

When competition commences, up first will be Melanie Bartels (HAW), 27, Rebecca Woods (AUS), 25, and Alana Blanchard (HAW), 19, doing battle in Heat 1 Round 1 of the Movistar Peru Classic. Event organizers will reconvene tomorrow at 7am for a possible 7:30am start.

The Movistar Peru Classic presented by Rip Curl will host the ASP Top 17 from November 3 - 8, 2009.

The event will be webcast LIVE via www.aspworldtour.com

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