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Blogging Notes
I’ll be traveling in the United States for the next two weeks, so blog posts will be sporadic. I have two goals in the United States: (1) Research how Peruvians in the U.S. are coping with the financial downtown; and (2) Avoid getting fat on American food! If you are a Peruvian living in the United States and you’d like to share your personal story about the economy, leave a comment on this post and include your email address in the comment form (the part that doesn’t show). I will be in touch. I’m interested in talking with people who are having trouble paying their mortgage, are in foreclosure, have…
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(Not) Trailing Bush at the APEC
The Texas cowbow-turned-El Chalan, APEC Leaders’ Summit, Nov. 23, 2008; photo c. Jorge Vera It was 4 p.m. on the final day of the APEC Summit, and most of the leaders and the journalists had left the Minstry of Defense building where the summit had been held. El Fotógrafo and I were huddled in a cubicle in the International Media Center, trying to identify which Asian leader was which in a photo EF had taken earlier that afternoon. “Is that the president of Thailand? No, Vietnam?” We kept checking with a list of published photos of the leaders, most of which appeared to have been taken when the leaders were younger…
