INTERVIEWS: One of these two women will be mayor of Lima

This Sunday, Oct. 3, Lima residents will choose their new mayor. The race is led decisively by two candidates, Susana Villarán for Fuerza Social and Lourdes Flores for Partido Popular Cristiano, PPC. It is likely that for only the second time, Lima will be governed by a woman.


Over the past month, the campaign has turned rough. Lourdes Flores, a lawyer and two-time presidential candidate, has been questioned about a former client who is being investigated for links to narcotrafficking and was recently wiretapped. Villarán, a leftist, has been labeled a radical by opponents.

In the following interviews, meet the two candidates.

http://www.livinginperu.com/features-1694-politics-interviews-one-these-two-women-will-be-mayor-lima

Thousands celebrate Peru’s cuisine at Mistura

President Alan Garcia and Gaston Acurio were both present for the opening day of this year’s Mistura 2010. Through Sunday at Lima's Parque de la Exposicion, the food fair is bigger and bigger than ever.

http://www.livinginperu.com/features-1663-cuisine-celebrating-perus-cuisine-thousands-attend-mistura-food-fest-lima

How to volunteer in Peru: Rebuilding Pisco

The city of Pisco is still recovering from the shattering 2007 earthquake. Here is an volunteer organization that does with rebuilding projects and more.

http://www.livinginperu.com/features-1647-general-how-volunteer-peru-rebuilding-pisco

Journalism: English for the 21st Century

‘The two main drives in teenagers’ lives are for independence and acceptance; our approach to journalism supports these drives through favoring freedom of expression and showcasing student work on a variety of public platforms.’

By Esther Wojcicki

http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=102407

[ELTeCS_PERU] Language and thought: Does your language shape what you think?

Seventy years ago, in 1940, a popular science magazine published a short article that set in motion one of the trendiest intellectual fads of the 20th century. At first glance, there seemed little about the article to augur its subsequent celebrity. Neither the title, “Science and Linguistics,” nor the magazine, M.I.T.’s Technology Review, was most people’s idea of glamour. And the author, a chemical engineer who worked for an insurance company and moonlighted as an anthropology lecturer at Yale University, was an unlikely candidate for international superstardom. And yet Benjamin Lee Whorf let loose an alluring idea about language’s power over the mind, and his stirring prose seduced a whole generation into believing that our mother tongue restricts what we are able to think.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Investing in Peru: Interview with KPMG

The auditing and professional services firm KPMG began operating in Peru in 1972. In this interview, Tim Treharne, Managing Director of KPMG's Latin America operations, talks about infrastructure projects and the investment climate in Peru.

By Silvia Mendoza Martínez, El Comercio

Adapted from Spanish by Diana Schwalb


http://www.livinginperu.com/business-1606-general-investing-perus-infrastructure-an-interview-with-kpmg

Foreigners Living in Peru: A young Texan who embraces Spanglish

Allison Garrett first discovered a love for the Spanish language when studying abroad in Costa Rica. After another stint in Bolivia, she knew Latin America was the place for her, and came to Peru in 2008 as a Rotary scholar. Originally from Texas, she now lives in Lima full time and runs a communications business. Not bad for only 26 years old.


Allison took the time to answer questions about Peru, speaking Spanglish and being a foreign woman in Lima.

http://www.livinginperu.com/features-1589-expat-life-foreigners-