Lima The highlight of our first day of assembling the staff from Peru, Canada, the United Labor Unions, Mexico, and Honduras was taking the collectivo (bus) to see the great progress that Orfa Camacho, ACORN Peru’s head organizer, had been reporting was being won in the asentamiento humanos (the people living on the mountain sides) …
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Traveling to Machu Picchu after the Mudslides
Cusco The regular readers are going to pass this blog by and that’s far enough, but I’m going to lay out some travel tips as a public service of sorts for some of the 400,000 visitors to Machu Picchu, one of the wonder’s of the world by any reckoning, who happen to check the internet …
Archbishop Romero in San Salvador Airport
Lima Sometimes there is real substance behind the symbols and that is the way I felt walking down the concourse in the semi-renovated San Salvador airport in El Salvador when suddenly we walked up a 5 feet tall by 10 or more feet long mural commemorating Archbishop Romero,the martyred face of repressive civil war that …