By EDWAR ENRIQUE ESCALANTE.
After his remarkable work through The Mystery of Capital, where his main thesis was the weakness of the property rights as the main cause for people to be poor and excluded from capitalism benefits around the world. Hernando de Soto has produced a hard challenge for the collective society lovers one more time. With no doubt the ideas described by De Soto were a stab for the left that thought to see a genesis of socialism in the Andean and Amazonian communities as the key engine to create a socialist regime in Peru and Latin America.
Why does capitalism triumph in the West and fails everywhere else? That was the question he tried to answer. The celebrated book by De Soto explained that poor people create business, get [Continue reading...]

The Andean city of Cusco in southeastern Peru got the third spot among cities from Central and South America in the contest “World’s best” organized by Travel+Leisure magazine, reported today Peru’s Tourism and Export Promotion Board (PromPeru).The first spot was occupied by Buenos Aires, Argentina and the second place by Oaxaca, Mexico.
Cusco was also voted the world’s 16th most popular tourist destination.
Popular destinations such as Barcelona, London and even Paris did not reach the global list of 20 top cities. Indian city Udiapur led this year’s list, pushing 2008’s winner Bangkok to the third place.
The magazine, which conducted its poll between January-March 2009, also ran a rating of the world’s best hotels, top tour operators and top large-ship cruise lines.
In the category of Central and South America’s best resorts, Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo [Continue reading...]

Work on the perupedia graffiti page is currently going full steam ahead (although admitedly there might be a few wheels missing here and there off the mighty steam engine.) with portals, categories, guidelines and other groundwork being slotted into place as quickly as possible.
There is now a main portal for graffiti & street art in peru and a subportal for graffiti lima.
About the project
* Document the extensive history of peruvian graffiti and politics.
* Document works of graffiti or street art in lima metro and beyond.
* Give up to date news on these works, events, shops and other affilirations to the graffiti scene in peru via galleries, artists pages etc.
* To connect admierers, photographers, writers and artists together through contacts, discussion etc.
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BY: JUAN ARELLANO – Disagreements between bloggers and their readers may often take place within the comments section, and can continue in the form of debate and discussion. However, for some Peruvian bloggers, some of their views motivated some to take actions to silence these differing opinions. The blogger Carlos Quiróz, also known as Peruanista [es] had his YouTube channel erased due to waves of complaints by a group who disagreed with him. In addition, Francisco Canaza of Apuntes Peruanos [es] was on the receiving end of a hacking attack that left his blog offline for days.
Many are asking what did these bloggers do to deserve these types of attacks? Do their opinions on uncomfortable topics make them a target by those who disagree? Is that a valid reason for [Continue reading...]