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The year was 1986 and the APRA government led by Alan García Pérez, had the bright idea to organize the Latin American Cultural Week Integration (shekels), an event that brought together the best exponents of music, film, literature, painting and other arts of the great homeland. Advance publicity was conspicuous by his absence and could be heard only rumors to come, among others, Silvio Rodriguez and Pablo Milanes, which in itself, it was all a story of impact for lovers of Cuban nueva trova. The father of a friend who worked for those Petroperú days, we gave greater scope of the dates and places, well, we learned that the central themes of the presentations would be the Municipal Theatre and the Plaza de Acho.

A sunny Saturday April SICLA was opened in the courtyard of the government palace in the presence of President Garcia. That first act, stripped the disorganization that marked the development of the cultural week. Many people who attended could only watch the show from outside the square and only the authorities and party members of the star had the privilege of the yard. While the inauguration was broadcast live on state television, the people were left with a bitter, unable to see close to Silvio Rodriguez sang "Song of the chosen" and "History of the chairs" and Pablo Milanes who sang "I will trample the streets again" and "Years."

On the day we learned that the president of a shekel was Fernando Arias, husband of the then Minister of Health, Ilda Urizar (first woman minister in Peru) and a fellow known Plá Gerardo Diez, a civil engineer from the Catholic , trova lover, my great friend and partner in this venture. We knew the Siclar operations center was in the old premises of Minero Peru in the street Arequipa and that Sunday we head to in search of Fernando Gerardo Arias. We arrived at the local, full of people going from one place to another, filled with posters and programs. And we wonder Arias pointed to a type of short stature and worried face. We introduce ourselves as friends of his called and offered her a helping hand when it could, if needed. Fernando Arias, proved a warm and friendly guy who took our presence in the best way and put us in contact with the person who coordinated the theme of the musical at the base of the Hotel Crillon, surrendering his card on which we recommended "as friends who wanted to support without any compromise." Leaving the site of Minero Peru, we met a Cuban embassy car was carrying nothing more and nothing less than to Silvio Rodriguez, who responded to our greeting and said, lowering his car window with the timidity that characterizes it: "we the Crillon.

If local Minero Peru was a pandemonium, the Hotel Crillon was a giddy tower of Babel. An incalculable number of people who came and went, a chaos of screams and orders. Going round the lobby we ran into Oswaldo Guayasamin. Going up the elevator to find the coordinator, addressed on the second floor Silvio Rodriguez and Pablo Milanes. The contact lasted seconds, it was only a greeting and a joke of the great Paul, but for us was superb.

The surname responsible Collazos, was apparently an important picture of the party and an expert in organizing big events. At first measured with distrust our presence and order programs and have sent posters. After a while, we asked what we did and was more friendly. What happened in the days following, was tremendous work for our times and therefore we assume a number of logistical and technical responsibilities demanded a full time commitment, not a cent of pay and without even having the privilege of access Municipal theater performances, because, finally, we paid entries all the presentations we attend.

The performances in the Plaza de Acho were free and after work coordinating sound, lighting, security and even the relocation of artists on the buses, we could move because of our credentials, and share all areas closely with artists. Are unforgettable greeting urinary our urinal with León Gieco and the appearance of my friend Gerardo Acho on stage, behind Silvio Rodriguez while the teacher played Hopefully, cigar in hand and a sweater with the figure of "comrade" Mickey Mouse .

People in the organization we called "tigers", but there are those members who told us "partners", which is that without being part of the game, finished giving orders, taking people to our office and taking on many responsibilities so we were identifying with the character the story "The Badge", by Julio Ramón Ribeyro. It was so appreciated our work, the following year that organized the season (Council of Cultural Integration in Latin America), which was less bulky and more focused on music, we appointed (unpaid, of course) music and folklore coordinators responsible presentations at the Plaza de Acho and the Tavern 900 in Barranco and Satchmo in Miraflores. Our great advantage was to share time and friendship with these great artists, in their free time in their essays and those dear encerronas and guitar that were organized at the Hotel Crillon, recalling that in which the teacher and good friend Vicente Feliu, sang more than 20 songs for 4 people, a real luxury.

While for us it was an unforgettable experience, we can not forget the disruption that we saw up close and thrived officials wasted doing absolutely nothing while enjoying their stay in the Hotel Crillon dedicated to foods and beverages without control or measure. It said and I am sure that was true, Siclar that cost the country more than a million dollars.

Beyond its problems and limitations, allowed Siclar Lima, have at one time in its history, this constellation of stars of Latin American music: Silvio Rodriguez and the Orchestra Afro Cuba, Pablo Milanés, Vicente Feliu, Santiago Feliu, Lazaro Garcia, Sara González, Orchestra Project group Irakere and Gonzalo Rubalcaba from Cuba, Alberto Cortez, Raphael Amor, Mercedes Sosa, Victor Heredia, Fito Paez, Leon Gieco, Nito Mestre, MPA Chango Farias and Peteco Carabajal of Argentina, Isabel Parra, Angel Parra, Santiago del Nuevo Extremo and group Inti Illimani of Chile, Carlos Mejia Godoy Nicaragua. Were memorable presentations with Pablo Milanés Silvio Rodríguez in the UNI and Villa el Salvador and all Cuban artists in the park zone of San Luis, which is now the Videna, however, the most striking thing I remember, was the ovation standing for a period of more than 15 minutes to Silvio Rodríguez in the Municipal Theater. Anthology.

still have the autograph of Oswaldo Guayasamin, who only wrote his name in print in a crumpled paper. Nobody believes me to see him. Penetration

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Stomach Bug Bad Farts

The chorriadas and Rei Power

Roberto Palacios Mestas (Lima, 1972), popularly known as the "chorriadas" is without doubt the most charismatic player of this generation of Peruvian soccer players over 20 years did not win anything at the level of selection. A few goals the sterile spectacular knockout of 1996 to 2000 catapulted him as a symbol of honor and national pride. He knew his good reputation to win the ball with a strong fighting hard despite his skinny figure, but above all to promote, a packed stadium a shirt that says "I love you Peru" after scoring a Chilavert himself both in the World Cup in Korea - Japan 2002. Chorriadas Palacios

The Peruvian is the player with even more selection at (122 games in 16 years and 19 goals), has achieved 5 titles (4 with Sporting Cristal and 1 to LDU of Ecuador) and has played, other teams mentioned in Mexican football (Tecos, Morelia and Atlas), with Deportivo Cali in Colombia and Brazil's Cruzeiro. A respectable career for a footballer these days Peruvian. On the other hand, it would mean denying their skills, attitude and shot. However, if we talk about quality, experience and track record, to take stock of the greatest Peruvian soccer players in his position in order to define a once ideal, Chorrillana Palacios is quite behind and long waiting list in relation to the size of cracks Cueto, Cubillas, Uribe, Sotil, Velasquez, Percy Rojas, Chale, Mifflin, Cross or the very Pedrito Ruiz, to name some players who shone in the last four decades.

As often happens in the field of referents and famous, Palacios bit bad credit used his charisma to comment on the problems of our football. Not surprisingly, in his words several times, excesses and fighting has been represented in two sketches of Humor Special where the actor Walter "Cachito" Ramirez makes a mockery of you that I am sure will not be pleasing chorriadas anything popular. Similarly, we must not forget that Parker has not been outside more than a scandal related to his eventful and tumultuous personal life.

Following the Apertura tournament title won by the University with absolute fairness and ample figures, Palacios has hinted at more of a statement that "the arbitrators and the system" have played for the U and damaged the glass (more so when at the beginning of this tournament, there were more than 3 games that were defined for the celestial due to decisions of the referees that the benefited). Specifically referred to cases of arbitration awards game played between two teams that somehow defined the championship, when indeed the U.S. was leading his rival by 7 points. Days later in an interview with Alberto Beingolea CMD, repeated his tirade against the confusion of the interviewer who could not decipher what Palacios was expressed in a speech more complex than you remember best Cantinflas. In the end, he said nothing, only half-words and accusations semi stripped and badly piconería only their art of losing. In old age, smallpox.

On the other side, Reimond Manco Albarracín (Lima, 1990), player symbol of the Peruvian National Team U-17 which qualified for the World category in 2007 in Korea, and was elected the best player in South American qualifying tournament for this fair.

Manco is a different player. According to some experts, has the magic to come up with a couple of plays per game and solve a result with a genius. Has been fortunate to have been inserted to the circuit of first class marketing of South American football, and this implies, among other things, have a high regard in the column of Miguel Barraza in Commerce or being a Caserito welcome to reporters from the powerful Argentina Fox Sports network. Has achieved pop star status of promising world figure who has been permitted to close a lucrative 4 year contract with the current Dutch champions PSV tetra Eindhoven (Club world that served as a springboard to two of the greatest goalscorers of recent times: Romario and Ronaldo).

Everything seems to walk well in this story but unfortunately it does not, then, after his consecration in the South American U17, Manco was easy prey of journalism that labeled him as the new young sex symbol and was sidelined and closer to the entertainment, discovered the pleasures of the night with wallet full and surrounded himself with friends less than ideal. In regard to football production was very poor it offered in the year he played for Alianza (29 matches and 3 goals). Made no difference and even a time of low performance and to the demands of the fans grone, snapped this nonsensical response: "I have a contract insured (with PSV), so I have to watch right? It would be crazy if I expose myself knowing that. I'm not anxious to go, but I think I would develop better there (in Holland) "I feel good, I want to go. I'm not giving one hundred percent because I have fear of getting hurt. I feel I'm wasting time, the same as that generated outrage and rejection by their own comrades. Despite this record, the sports press calls it the "Rei", in allusion to his name but the nickname subliminally linking the best of all times, the great Pele, in what I believe, an absolute disrespect to the monarchy of football.

Reimond Manco It was his European tour (revelry disco and reports prior to their new economic status) without the path or goals from Claudio Pizarro and Jefferson Farfan, who before anchoring in the old continent is tired of inflating networks the local tournament. Two predecessors which may be questioned in the country for its production at the selection but that they got around the top in demanding leagues in which they have had to participate and those who have tried more than once the taste of glory and pride around Olympic champion. Ojala, follow the path them and not other travelers and have ephemeral back in a couple of years. Penetration

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The Bottom Of My Tongue Hurts

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(*) Written in November 2003 and published at the request of a dear friend who believes current

Annual Conference of Executives (CADE) has always been a kind of barometer of political and economic situation the country. The President was almost forced to close the event with a speech containing an announcement or commitment to impact, beyond the pass - it Acho Peruvian matador - the demanding and knowledgeable audience, which, incidentally, was mostly linked to business.

Times have changed and Peru as well. Public appearances or attending the most important events taking place in the country, be they cultural, social, political, sports or just for fun, are marked by a special type of new and old caseritas to have three things in common: irresistible desire to appear, the money to fulfill their whims, and the audacity of being learned in a thousand subjects. And so, this select fraternity is always shown in photographs of the society pages of newspapers and magazines, on the front lines of the most varied music of Shakira concert to Pavarotti through Serrat, Les Luthiers, are the new fans selection boxes that fill the suites and the stands of the Monument, which we are, pure and boot in hand, Acho barriers, or dressed in white on the feast of the bowl or Pachacámac watching the horses parade to pass they know cooking and wines of course. Being part of this exclusive guild is todólogos easy at all, they must be able to highlight among many theatrical and maintain a proper look for every occasion.

Last CADE developed in Ica, is, without doubt, the biggest test of the assertion. A gallery of well-mounted vanity in some cases, such as admission to smell many a former president who, with the help of his faithful spouse - as if to shatter the hyperbole of some tenant palace, returning to a difficult tended that cheered and franeleó but also condemned, or the thunderous polemic between a left-wing politician named quite shabby in recent weeks, and a yuppie lawyer neoliberal. Then, all the same, as usual, the speeches and statements of twenty years ago, the panelists refried circular ideology and ethereal life, beyond a bland and lackluster presidential address in form and substance, which plots the sense of the increasingly more precise surveys.

However, the focus of the very famous CADE Ica was the finale and the euphoria experienced by the participants. A fusion of Cuban rhythms, merengue and cha cha in the coalescent between disfuerzos and cuddles, honoring Arguedas, all blood is in a festive tower of babel and gathered around the solution of problems country. Are worthy of highlighting some of the characters of Dante's party like that former presidential candidate who exercised a monopoly dance with the former target of racist anger your father, who, with pachydermal movements, established at home and abroad, that his celibacy is not obligatory but pure vocation.

A classic, and, in these conflicts, is the ethereal presence of a beautiful banker, who has won, however deserving the title of the "Bride of the CADE." The row of thirsty, hot dance partner pretenders to the fashion executive, never shrank half a dozen. There was, a former prosecutor who was the surprise the party, wasting a dance style probably taken from the close relationship of their professional expertise and his constant visits to the prisons - an acquaintance told me, with some evil, that the aforesaid character, "dancing seemed Tatán CADE" -, by what this quimboso and Sandunguero dancer wandered around the dance floor as if the population Demosthenes caders and countless camera flashes and present, that not only acquired waist going well rid of his dangerous affair with fujimontesinismo. There was no shortage among eager suitors, a lawyer close to the Palace, which was to limit their physical contact paroxysm the lady in question.

were poignant scenes that you see a former drug czar share the exhilaration of dance with a congressman packing Musketeer puneño defeated-looking, or the sensual dance of a former minister with the cause of the collapse of another recent former band colleague, or the head of treasury who was seen with her plump bouncing partner. He completed a CADE

more. We are not entirely clear whether the main conclusions will help improve the country's destiny. We suspect that nothing will change. What if it became clear to the surprised and majority citizens is that, at least, we are certain that those who run this country they do rhythm, glamorous and high doses of prominence. Penetration

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