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The rapid shaking last for ten seconds and stopped.

El Fotógrafo emerged from the kitchen where he was cooking a very fragrant Bolognese sauce. His brother was right behind him, wafting on the scent of sautéed garlic.

"Yes," said his brother, stroking his beard. "This is October. The month of the earthquakes." He paused thoughtfully. "Also May."

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<h6 class="mceTemp mceIEcenter"><dl class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 220px;"><dt class="wp-caption-dt"><img style="margin: 10px 15px; border: black 5px solid;" src="http://www.schoodoodle.com/blog/uploaded_images/plato-724806.jpg" alt="" width="210" height="300" /></dt><dd class="wp-caption-dd">Plato and Aristotle by Rafael</dd></dl></h6>
El Filósofo lives two blocks away from us with his wife, La Organica, and two of their three grown children. EF's brother is many things – an artist, an artisanal baker, a former Waldorf School teacher – but his identity, or his aura, if you will, is larger than all that. He is the quintessential philosophic Limeño, with a stoic, wry attitude toward all events, good or bad.

If the country's economy is posting record gains and the critics are cheering the robustness of Peru's democratic process, El Filósofo will remind you of the sudden military takeover of Peru in 1968.

If the power in your neighborhood goes out due to an unexplained municipal snafu, El Filósofo will light some candles from the <em>Barrio Chino</em> and explain why humanity is really better off without electricity.

If you are a frantic, overworked American mother (as I was in 2000) and you are in Lima with your two-year-old who drinks only soy milk and you have just discovered that boxed soy milk doesn't exist in Peru, El Filósofo will helpfully explain how to take soy beans and squeeze the milk out of them BY HAND.

He will smile as he says this.

As it turns out, El Filósofo isn't the only Limeño who likes to repeat the May/October earthquake adage.

The morning after the Lima earthquake – which <a href="http://www.eluniverso.com/2008/10/06/0001/14/08CA1D1AC74C4CA8819EBD450222E366.html">registered a modest 4.0 degrees on the Richter scale</a> – I brought up the event during my neighborhood exercise class.

The exercise teacher, a cheerful, disciplined woman with the body of an 18-year-old Olympian, put on that same patient face I had seen on El Filósofo.

"<em>Ah, si. Octubre. El mes de terremotos</em>," she said, pressing her palms together in unconscious supplication. "<em>Y mayo también</em>."

Then she perked up and yelled at us to do twenty more sit-ups.

Comments like those of the exercise goddess and El Filósofo suggest how the human psyche adapts when faced with ongoing threats beyond one's control. Peru, like other Andean countries located along <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_American_Plate">the South American and Nazca tectonic plates</a>, will always be subject to earthquakes. Their exact timing can't be predicted. But to know or to believe that earthquakes tend to happen during certain months lends them a predictability -- and hence makes the fear more bearable.

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EH leaped from the couch: "Earthquake!"

The rapid shaking last for ten seconds and stopped.

El Fotógrafo emerged from the kitchen where he was cooking a very fragrant Bolognese sauce. His brother was right behind him, wafting on the scent of sautéed garlic.

"Yes," said his brother, stroking his beard. "This is October. The month of the earthquakes." He paused thoughtfully. "Also May."

Now is a good time in this blog to introduce <strong>El Filósofo</strong>, EF's older brother and a lifetime Lima resident.
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El Filósofo lives two blocks away from us with his wife, La Organica, and two of their three grown children. EF's brother is many things – an artist, an artisanal baker, a former Waldorf School teacher – but his identity, or his aura, if you will, is larger than all that. He is the quintessential philosophic Limeño, with a stoic, wry attitude toward all events, good or bad.

If the country's economy is posting record gains and the critics are cheering the robustness of Peru's democratic process, El Filósofo will remind you of the sudden military takeover of Peru in 1968.

If the power in your neighborhood goes out due to an unexplained municipal snafu, El Filósofo will light some candles from the <em>Barrio Chino</em> and explain why humanity is really better off without electricity.

If you are a frantic, overworked American mother (as I was in 2000) and you are in Lima with your two-year-old who drinks only soy milk and you have just discovered that boxed soy milk doesn't exist in Peru, El Filósofo will helpfully explain how to take soy beans and squeeze the milk out of them BY HAND.

He will smile as he says this.

As it turns out, El Filósofo isn't the only Limeño who likes to repeat the May/October earthquake adage.

The morning after the Lima earthquake – which <a href="http://www.eluniverso.com/2008/10/06/0001/14/08CA1D1AC74C4CA8819EBD450222E366.html">registered a modest 4.0 degrees on the Richter scale</a> – I brought up the event during my neighborhood exercise class.

The exercise teacher, a cheerful, disciplined woman with the body of an 18-year-old Olympian, put on that same patient face I had seen on El Filósofo.

"<em>Ah, si. Octubre. El mes de terremotos</em>," she said, pressing her palms together in unconscious supplication. "<em>Y mayo también</em>."

Then she perked up and yelled at us to do twenty more sit-ups.

Comments like those of the exercise goddess and El Filósofo suggest how the human psyche adapts when faced with ongoing threats beyond one's control. Peru, like other Andean countries located along <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_American_Plate">the South American and Nazca tectonic plates</a>, will always be subject to earthquakes. Their exact timing can't be predicted. But to know or to believe that earthquakes tend to happen during certain months lends them a predictability -- and hence makes the fear more bearable.

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EH leaped from the couch: "Earthquake!"

The rapid shaking last for ten seconds and stopped.

El Fotógrafo emerged from the kitchen where he was cooking a very fragrant Bolognese sauce. His brother was right behind him, wafting on the scent of sautéed garlic.

"Yes," said his brother, stroking his beard. "This is October. The month of the earthquakes." He paused thoughtfully. "Also May."

Now is a good time in this blog to introduce <strong>El Filósofo</strong>, EF's older brother and a lifetime Lima resident.
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El Filósofo lives two blocks away from us with his wife, La Organica, and two of their three grown children. EF's brother is many things – an artist, an artisanal baker, a former Waldorf School teacher – but his identity, or his aura, if you will, is larger than all that. He is the quintessential philosophic Limeño, with a stoic, wry attitude toward all events, good or bad.

If the country's economy is posting record gains and the critics are cheering the robustness of Peru's democratic process, El Filósofo will remind you of the sudden military takeover of Peru in 1968.

If the power in your neighborhood goes out due to an unexplained municipal snafu, El Filósofo will light some candles from the <em>Barrio Chino</em> and explain why humanity is really better off without electricity.

If you are a frantic, overworked American mother (as I was in 2000) and you are in Lima with your two-year-old who drinks only soy milk and you have just discovered that boxed soy milk doesn't exist in Peru, El Filósofo will helpfully explain how to take soy beans and squeeze the milk out of them BY HAND.

He will smile as he says this.

As it turns out, El Filósofo isn't the only Limeño who likes to repeat the May/October earthquake adage.

The morning after the Lima earthquake – which <a href="http://www.eluniverso.com/2008/10/06/0001/14/08CA1D1AC74C4CA8819EBD450222E366.html">registered a modest 4.0 degrees on the Richter scale</a> – I brought up the event during my neighborhood exercise class.

The exercise teacher, a cheerful, disciplined woman with the body of an 18-year-old Olympian, put on that same patient face I had seen on El Filósofo.

"<em>Ah, si. Octubre. El mes de terremotos</em>," she said, pressing her palms together in unconscious supplication. "<em>Y mayo también</em>."

Then she perked up and yelled at us to do twenty more sit-ups.

Comments like those of the exercise goddess and El Filósofo suggest how the human psyche adapts when faced with ongoing threats beyond one's control. Peru, like other Andean countries located along <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_American_Plate">the South American and Nazca tectonic plates</a>, will always be subject to earthquakes. Their exact timing can't be predicted. But to know or to believe that earthquakes tend to happen during certain months lends them a predictability -- and hence makes the fear more bearable.

Living in a city prone to earthquakes, power outages and occasional military takeovers offers a person several coping options: become a nervous wreck, drink heavily or cultivate one's inner philosopher.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Lima_peru-2007_earthquake.jpg"><img class="alignright" style="border: 0px;" src="http://americaninlima.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/101008-1926-ofearthquak1.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="161" height="160" align="right" /></a>This past Monday (October 6), at around 6:50 p.m., El Híjo and I were sitting in the living room when we felt an enormous jolt.

EH leaped from the couch: "Earthquake!"

The rapid shaking last for ten seconds and stopped.

El Fotógrafo emerged from the kitchen where he was cooking a very fragrant Bolognese sauce. His brother was right behind him, wafting on the scent of sautéed garlic.

"Yes," said his brother, stroking his beard. "This is October. The month of the earthquakes." He paused thoughtfully. "Also May."

Now is a good time in this blog to introduce <strong>El Filósofo</strong>, EF's older brother and a lifetime Lima resident.
<h6 class="mceTemp mceIEcenter"><dl class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 220px;"><dt class="wp-caption-dt"><img style="margin: 10px 15px; border: black 5px solid;" src="http://www.schoodoodle.com/blog/uploaded_images/plato-724806.jpg" alt="" width="210" height="300" /></dt><dd class="wp-caption-dd">Plato and Aristotle by Rafael</dd></dl></h6>
El Filósofo lives two blocks away from us with his wife, La Organica, and two of their three grown children. EF's brother is many things – an artist, an artisanal baker, a former Waldorf School teacher – but his identity, or his aura, if you will, is larger than all that. He is the quintessential philosophic Limeño, with a stoic, wry attitude toward all events, good or bad.

If the country's economy is posting record gains and the critics are cheering the robustness of Peru's democratic process, El Filósofo will remind you of the sudden military takeover of Peru in 1968.

If the power in your neighborhood goes out due to an unexplained municipal snafu, El Filósofo will light some candles from the <em>Barrio Chino</em> and explain why humanity is really better off without electricity.

If you are a frantic, overworked American mother (as I was in 2000) and you are in Lima with your two-year-old who drinks only soy milk and you have just discovered that boxed soy milk doesn't exist in Peru, El Filósofo will helpfully explain how to take soy beans and squeeze the milk out of them BY HAND.

He will smile as he says this.

As it turns out, El Filósofo isn't the only Limeño who likes to repeat the May/October earthquake adage.

The morning after the Lima earthquake – which <a href="http://www.eluniverso.com/2008/10/06/0001/14/08CA1D1AC74C4CA8819EBD450222E366.html">registered a modest 4.0 degrees on the Richter scale</a> – I brought up the event during my neighborhood exercise class.

The exercise teacher, a cheerful, disciplined woman with the body of an 18-year-old Olympian, put on that same patient face I had seen on El Filósofo.

"<em>Ah, si. Octubre. El mes de terremotos</em>," she said, pressing her palms together in unconscious supplication. "<em>Y mayo también</em>."

Then she perked up and yelled at us to do twenty more sit-ups.

Comments like those of the exercise goddess and El Filósofo suggest how the human psyche adapts when faced with ongoing threats beyond one's control. Peru, like other Andean countries located along <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_American_Plate">the South American and Nazca tectonic plates</a>, will always be subject to earthquakes. Their exact timing can't be predicted. But to know or to believe that earthquakes tend to happen during certain months lends them a predictability -- and hence makes the fear more bearable.

Living in a city prone to earthquakes, power outages and occasional military takeovers offers a person several coping options: become a nervous wreck, drink heavily or cultivate one's inner philosopher.

Or, as I'll describe in my next post, become a devotee of <a href="http://www.kleph.com/blog.php?v_blog_id=1&amp;v_blog_entry_id=346" target="_blank">El Se<span style="color: #000000;">ñ</span>or de los Milagros</a>.]]></content:encoded>
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<p>I promise it will be an excellent time because (1) the musicians and dancers are world-class; (2) our lead singer is a rowdy, sometimes bawdy storyteller; and (3) you'll be helping to build a desperately needed medical center in the ravaged town of Pisco.</p>
<p>Here's the <a href="http://www.livinginperu.com/features-748-art-culture-lifestyle-celtic-rockers-irish-step-dancers-entertain-lima-" target="_blank">press release that recently ran in Living in Peru</a>:<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[This past Monday (October 6), at around 6:50 p.m., El Híjo and I were sitting in the living room when we felt an enormous jolt. EH leaped from the couch: "Earthquake!" The rapid shaking last for ten seconds and stopped. El Fotógrafo emerged from the kitchen where he was cooking a very fragrant Bolognese sauce. [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Lima_peru-2007_earthquake.jpg"><img class="alignright" style="border: 0px;" src="http://americaninlima.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/101008-1926-ofearthquak1.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="161" height="160" align="right" /></a>This past Monday (October 6), at around 6:50 p.m., El Híjo and I were sitting in the living room when we felt an enormous jolt.

EH leaped from the couch: "Earthquake!"

The rapid shaking last for ten seconds and stopped.

El Fotógrafo emerged from the kitchen where he was cooking a very fragrant Bolognese sauce. His brother was right behind him, wafting on the scent of sautéed garlic.

"Yes," said his brother, stroking his beard. "This is October. The month of the earthquakes." He paused thoughtfully. "Also May."

Now is a good time in this blog to introduce <strong>El Filósofo</strong>, EF's older brother and a lifetime Lima resident.
<h6 class="mceTemp mceIEcenter"><dl class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 220px;"><dt class="wp-caption-dt"><img style="margin: 10px 15px; border: black 5px solid;" src="http://www.schoodoodle.com/blog/uploaded_images/plato-724806.jpg" alt="" width="210" height="300" /></dt><dd class="wp-caption-dd">Plato and Aristotle by Rafael</dd></dl></h6>
El Filósofo lives two blocks away from us with his wife, La Organica, and two of their three grown children. EF's brother is many things – an artist, an artisanal baker, a former Waldorf School teacher – but his identity, or his aura, if you will, is larger than all that. He is the quintessential philosophic Limeño, with a stoic, wry attitude toward all events, good or bad.

If the country's economy is posting record gains and the critics are cheering the robustness of Peru's democratic process, El Filósofo will remind you of the sudden military takeover of Peru in 1968.

If the power in your neighborhood goes out due to an unexplained municipal snafu, El Filósofo will light some candles from the <em>Barrio Chino</em> and explain why humanity is really better off without electricity.

If you are a frantic, overworked American mother (as I was in 2000) and you are in Lima with your two-year-old who drinks only soy milk and you have just discovered that boxed soy milk doesn't exist in Peru, El Filósofo will helpfully explain how to take soy beans and squeeze the milk out of them BY HAND.

He will smile as he says this.

As it turns out, El Filósofo isn't the only Limeño who likes to repeat the May/October earthquake adage.

The morning after the Lima earthquake – which <a href="http://www.eluniverso.com/2008/10/06/0001/14/08CA1D1AC74C4CA8819EBD450222E366.html">registered a modest 4.0 degrees on the Richter scale</a> – I brought up the event during my neighborhood exercise class.

The exercise teacher, a cheerful, disciplined woman with the body of an 18-year-old Olympian, put on that same patient face I had seen on El Filósofo.

"<em>Ah, si. Octubre. El mes de terremotos</em>," she said, pressing her palms together in unconscious supplication. "<em>Y mayo también</em>."

Then she perked up and yelled at us to do twenty more sit-ups.

Comments like those of the exercise goddess and El Filósofo suggest how the human psyche adapts when faced with ongoing threats beyond one's control. Peru, like other Andean countries located along <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_American_Plate">the South American and Nazca tectonic plates</a>, will always be subject to earthquakes. Their exact timing can't be predicted. But to know or to believe that earthquakes tend to happen during certain months lends them a predictability -- and hence makes the fear more bearable.

Living in a city prone to earthquakes, power outages and occasional military takeovers offers a person several coping options: become a nervous wreck, drink heavily or cultivate one's inner philosopher.

Or, as I'll describe in my next post, become a devotee of <a href="http://www.kleph.com/blog.php?v_blog_id=1&amp;v_blog_entry_id=346" target="_blank">El Se<span style="color: #000000;">ñ</span>or de los Milagros</a>.]]></content:encoded>
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<strong>August 15, 2007</strong>:  It had been little more than a month since El Fotografo, El Hijo and I had packed up the contents of our 4-bedroom house in Florida, stuffed it all in a shipping container bound for Callao, and hopped on a plane to EF's hometown of Lima.
<p style="text-align: left;">Everything in Peru's capital was new and strange to El Hijo and I, then -- and to EF as well, since he hadn't lived in Peru for 25 years. The food, the climate, the traffic, the language -- just stepping out of the front door each morning was an adventure, not always an easy one.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">For several weeks we had been staying in a friend's second-floor apartment in Miraflores, right across from the Church of Our Lady of Carmel. Each morning we'd watch the school children in their brown Carmelitas uniforms file into the round door across the street, their mothers and nannies waving to them from the curb.  We could hear the children's shouts from the school gymnasium as we ate lunch in our tiny living room/dining room.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Below our friend's apartment is a corner bodega, where all day long customers stop in to buy snacks, sodas, cigarettes, and to gossip.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The store's candies are behind glass, and you have to ask the cashier for them. It was around this time that EH became motivated to learn Spanish. "Una Kindersupresa, por favor?"</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">On Wednesday, August 15, at around 6:30 p.m., El Hijo and I were sitting on his bed, playing a game with a stuffed Scottie dog we'd bought at Wong. El Fotografo was in the other bedroom, typing up a presentation for a job interview with the UN in Peru. He had applied for a job in disaster planning, a career path he'd pursued in the United States during the 1980s and '90s.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Just as EF was typing the word "earthquake" (yes), the walls of the apartment began to shake.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">First I heard glass rattling. 'That's weird,' I thought.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Then I became aware that the bed was shaking, too -- the floor was shaking. It was a bad rattling sound.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">"Earthquake!" EF shouted. "Run downstairs."</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">EH grabbed all the stuffed animals he had brought from the U.S., and we ran down the narrow hall stairway to the street below, with EF behind us. An older man and his grandson, who were living in the apartment across from us, stood hesitantly on the upstairs mezzanine, confused.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">"Come down!" EF shouted.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">They followed, dazedly.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The little boy was clutching a red plastic dinosaur.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The walls were shaking all around us.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Outside in the street the streetlights were on; cars had stopped in mid-traffic across from the Carmelitas church.  Against the black sky, a strange orange haze haloed the tops of buildings and trees.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">We stood in the middle of the street, in our stockinged feet, and felt the asphalt road ripple under us in long waves. We had forgotten to put on shoes. El Hijo held my hand tightly. He wasn't crying.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">"What's happening?" he asked. His teeth were chattering.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">"Just stay calm," said EF, a veteran of the 1970 Peru earthquake, which killed 70,000 people. "It will be over with soon."</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">It kept going.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I waited for windows and buildings to fall but they didn't. Some women were on their knees on the sidewalk, praying, "Dios!" The world undulated.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Then it stopped.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">For four days after the 8.0 earthquake, we kept getting tremors in Lima.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">"Welcome to Peru," El Fotografo said.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">We learned that Pisco and Chincha and other towns in southern Peru had been devastated by the quake. About 40,000 buildings had been destroyed. More than 600 people were dead.  </p>
<p style="text-align: left;">We, on Peru's central coast, had been lucky.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">One year after the disaster, much of south Peru still lies in ruins. Many people still live in temporary housing. Reconstruction is proceeding very slowly, with some fingers pointing at President Alan Garcia, others at corrupt local politicians.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Update 8/16/08</strong>: Thousands of Peruvians took to the streets on the one-year-anniversary of the quake, to protest the government's inadequate response to the disaster.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">In Chincha banners carried by protests "called for President Alan Garcia to tell the truth about where the $382m supposedly spent on the reconstruction had gone, and why so many people had still not received compensation to rebuild their homes," reports the BBC.</p>

"At this rate, reconstruction will last 10 years and a generation of our citizens, of our children, will be raised in inequality because they live in huts and have nowhere to study," said the governor of Ica province, Romulo Triveno.

[Note that the governor blames Garcia's administration, while Garcia blames Triveno's buddies for the slow rate of reconstruction. Echoes of the post-Katrina blame game, to this American expat's ears.]
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>For various perspectives on Peru's Earthquake, One Year Later, visit:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">BBC Online, "<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7564703.stm" target="_blank">Thousands Join Peru Quake Protest</a>" (Aug. 15, 2008)</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>The Economist</em>, "<a href="http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11920805" target="_blank">Lessons from an Earthquake</a>" (Aug. 14, 2008)</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Andina, "<a href="http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=/Wu7Oeli44U=" target="_blank">Peru &amp; APEC Flags Fly at Half Mast for Earthquake Victims</a>" (Aug. 15, 2008)</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Reuters, "<a href="http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/n15334945-peru-quake/" target="_blank">Peruvians Protest, Mourn on Anniversary of Quake</a>" (Aug. 15, 2008)</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Want to be part of the solution? Help Peru rebuilt by donating funds or your time to an ongoing relief effort</strong>:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Idealist.org, "<a href="http://www.idealist.org/if/idealist/en/SiteIndex/Search/search?assetTags=VOLUNTEER_OPPORTUNITY_TYPE&amp;assetTypes=VolunteerOpportunity&amp;cities=Pisco&amp;continent=SOUTH_AMERICA&amp;countries=Peru&amp;fetchLimit=30&amp;languageDesignations=en&amp;onlyFetchAssetProperties=1&amp;sid=207174118-147-cse&amp;siteClassifierName=idealist&amp;validStatusTypes=APPROVED&amp;validStatusTypes=UNAPPROVED" target="_blank">Volunteer Opportunities in Pisco/Peru Earthquake Relief</a>" (Aug. 15, 2008)</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Online Fundraising Blog, "<a href="http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/tag/peru-earthquake/" target="_blank">Irish-Peruvian Fusion Raises Funds for Peru Earthquake Victims</a>" (Aug. 15, 2008)</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The Three Jacks, "<a href="http://www.thethreejacks.com/news.html" target="_blank">The Three Jacks Peru Tour</a>" (Aug. 10, 2008) -- contribute to funding for medical centers in Pisco and Chincha</p>]]></content:encoded>
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