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Peruvian wrestler Sixto Barrera trounced Lithuanian Valdemaras Venckaitis, ranked 3rd in the world, in the first qualifying rounds of Men’s Greco-Roman 74 k, in Beijing, on August 12. Barrera then went against China’s Chang Yongxiang in the quarter finals and lost. Chang Yongxiang advances to the finals with Georgia’s Manuchar Kvirkelia. This will be China’s first-ever [...]

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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Sixto Barrera"][/caption] Andina news agency reports that Peru’s wrestler Sixto Barrera debuts today at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Men’s Greco-Roman Wrestling, 74 kg., at 6:30 p.m. Beijing time (9:40 p.m. Perú time or 10:40 p.m. U.S. eastern time, notes blogger Peruanista). The 24-year-old Peruvian wrestler is counting on God’s grace, [...]

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I’m going through Olympic detox, here in Lima, where not even the cable channels broadcast the Games during regular day or evening hours. I’m still trying to figure out when I can actually view some extended programming; El Hijo claims there’s coverage at 1 a.m., but I’m not staying up to test his theory. Help [...]

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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="290" caption="Peruvian wrestler Sixto Barrera, Peru's flag-bearer at Beijing Olympics, photo by ANDINA/Juan Carlos Guzman Negrini"][/caption] Who are Peru’s Olympic athletes? For an in-depth look at the Peru delegation, in Spanish, visit this video by Carlos, of Peruanista, on YouTube: [video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOEnA91FJD4 Los Peruanos en Beijing 2008, by Carlos] Here’s Carlos’ summary [...]

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[caption id="attachment_188" align="aligncenter" width="268" caption="Peru athletes at Beijing 2008 Opening Ceremonies"][/caption] I’ve always enjoyed watching the Olympics on TV, and even though I favor the Winter Games, I keep up with the summer competitions in gymnastics, swimming and running. As a kid, I chewed my fingernails off watching Mark Spitz splash his way to seven [...]

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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="265" caption="null"][/caption] Figure 1: Lola at 3 1/2 months, on the Malecon, in Miraflores Es hembrita? That’s the first question Peruvians ask me when I’m out walking Lola. It doesn’t matter if the person is male or female, young or old, with dog or without. Nine times out of ten, a Peruvian [...]

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Lola’s in heat. Where do I begin this story? I can’t. Not today. It’s a saga. I’ll just post the image and explain later. It does have something to do with attitudes toward pets in Peru. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="393" caption="null"][/caption] Utterly redonkulous, as Meg from Cute Overload would say.

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The more I learn about the handmade clothing worn by traditional people in the Andes, the more impressed I become. The outfit above isn’t a museum piece, although it displays like one in the “Perú Hecho a Mano” boutique at Saga Falabella, in Lima’s Jockey Plaza mall. It is a very elaborate version of the [...]

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These colorful knit hats with earflaps, known as ch’ullos (CHEW-yohs), are worn by men in traditional Andean villages. You don’t usually find many high-quality ch’ullos in Lima, but this past Monday I found a virtual forest of them on the third floor of Saga Falabella department store, in Jockey Plaza, where the hats are being [...]

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Cute llama pix are a needed tonic to the barrage of awfulness in today’s world. A self-professed llama freak, from Eugene, Oregon, has asked for more camelids on this site. Of course, I oblige. Figure 1: Munching alpaca at Jose & Daniela’s wedding, photo c. Barbara Drake 2008

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[caption id="attachment_116" align="alignnone" width="442" caption="The Three Jacks (& Three Jills)"][/caption] Tonight at 8 p.m., my astral self will be hovering over downtown Miami as my good friends and former band mates, The Three Jacks, play a benefit concert to raise funds for victims of the 2007 Peru earthquake. The concert is being held at 8 [...]

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