Unlikely Latin music duo draw on corporate knowhow in forging new career path 2 minutes read
By Carla Samon Ros
Lima, May 6 (EFE).- A recording artist duo that formed after a chance meeting in Boston are drawing on the skills they acquired in the corporate world in pursuing their budding musical venture.
Santi – who consist of Peruvian singer and composer Santiago Dañino and American producer Andrew Dominitz – got their start professionally in the technology industry.
But they are now applying what they learned about strategy, team building and quality control in their new line of work, Dañino said in an interview with Efe.
Surfing: One way to keep young people out of gangs in Peru 3 minutes read
By Carla Samon Ros
Lima, Apr 29 (EFE).- From the summit of the Alto Peru neighborhood’s sandy hill, the view of the ocean and the city of Lima is beautiful, sharply in contrast with the abandoned homes from the colonial epoch and the rickety houses in this marginalized zone in the southern part of the Peruvian capital.
One walks through the streets there with a mixed feeling of insecurity and astonishment, the first created by the massive street sales of illegal drugs and the second by the spirited life of the community, despite the coronavirus pandemic.
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By Carla Samon Ros
Lima, Apr 21 (EFE).- Gladys Obregon began living about a week ago in a makeshift tent held up by wooden sticks in a vacant lot in Villa El Salvador, a low-income district on the outskirts of Peru’s capital.
Ever since then, the young woman has been safeguarding the piece of land she illegally occupied on Lomo de Corvina hill, a property owned by a mining company where hundreds of families have taken up residence over the past week in an improvised camp.
“The first day we slept in a hole in the sand, the third day we started making sticks,” Gladys, 23, told Efe while breastfeeding her one-year-old daughter next to the small tent she now shares with her sister and nephew.
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By Carla Samon Ros
Lima, Apr 12 (EFE).- Either an extreme leftist or an authoritarian rightist, a Marxist teacher or a political heir accused of money laundering.
These are the two choices facing millions of Peruvian voters on Monday morning after the preliminary results of the first presidential election round were made public.
According to the latest report from the ONPE national election office, with about 83 percent of the ballots counted, union leader Pedro Castillo, with the ultra-leftist Peru Libre party, has obtained 18.3 percent of the votes, followed by former lawmaker Keiko Fujimori, with the rightist Fuerza Popular and having pocketed 13.2 percent.
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By Carla Samon Ros
Lima, Apr 9 (EFE).- The latest polls show the top six candidates in the Peruvian presidential election separated by only 4 percent, meaning that a second round of voting in June is all but certain.
After leading the polls for months, center-left former lawmaker Yohny Lescano has faltered, yet he still seems likely to finish in the top two on Sunday.
But who will join the 62-year-old in qualifying for the runoff remains anybody’s guess.
The hopefuls include an economist who has been associated with controversial figures, the indicted daughter of disgraced former President Alberto Fujimori, a former professional soccer player and a business mogul who owes millions of dollars in back taxes.