Peru - The Magic Country
PERUVIAN ANCESTRY:
Benjamin Bratt (actor): His movies include: Shadown Hunter (1992), Demolition Man (1993), Kill or Be Killed (1993), Woman Undone (1995) and Exiled (1998).
Yma Sumac (actress and singer): Sumac was born in Peru. She has American citizen.
Helena Christensen (Model): Like Fernanda Tavares, Elsa Benitez and Juncal Rivero, she was a spectacular super-model in Europe in the United States in the 1990s. In 1986 Helena had been elected Miss Denmark.
Alejandro "Alex" Olmedo (tennis player): Was born in Arequipa (Peru). Like Mary Jo-Fernandez, Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez, Alex became American citizen. He came to the United States from Lima as a schoolboy. He is the only Latin American who has won one Wimbledon Tournament (1959).Alejandro played many times for the United States and he won at the 1958 Davis Cup
DID YOU KNOW THAT.... Peru is the first country which has had a President of Japanese ancestry. From 1990 to 2000, Alberto Kenya Fujimori, best known as "Chinese", was President of Peru. In 1992, Fujimori made history when he became dictator. During his dictatorship, he rewrote the Constitution.
Opposition and human rights groups accused Fujimori of violating human rights. Ironically, his government was an advocate for the women"s rights, anti-terrorism and tourism. In 1996, Miriam Schenone became minister of the Woman and Human Development.
Under his authoritarian rule, Fujimori received aid from the People"s of China and Japan. Protest marches against the dictatorship took place in 2000.That year, Fujimori fled to Japan, where he received asylum.
His style has been compared to Ferdinand Marcos, former dictator of Philippines....
FAMOUS ATHLETES: Juan Carlos "Johnny" Bello (swimming): The most famous swimmer in the Peruvian history. Johnny decided to learn to swim at the age of seven. From 1965 to 1973, he won several international medals.
Teofilo Cubillas (football): Cubillas, best known for his nickname "Nene", has played in three World Cups (Mexico-70, Argentina-78 and Spain-82). Certainly, Peru was one of the best teams in the 1970s.He is now recognized as a symbol of South American football.
Cecilia Tait (volleyball): Peru"s most talented player appeared as a sub aged 18 at the Pan American Games in San Juan (Puerto Rico).Like Lang Ping (the People"s Republic of China) and Flora "Flo" Hyman (United States),she is one of the best players in the volleyball history. She has played more than 300 games for Peru in the 1970s and 1980s.Tait has become an icon for the Peruvian sport. She was a congresswoman.
Gabriela Perez del Solar (volleyball): She was one of the World"s most popular players because of her all out effort and humble personality. Made her debut in the 1984 South American Youth Cup in Chile. She, best known as "Gaby", has been described as one of the best athletes by Peruvian journalists. The 1993 South American Championship was her last international tournament. Currently, she is a congresswoman since 2006. She has projects about Olympic sports.
Edwin Vazquez Cam (shooting): Edwin made history when won a gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1948.He was one of the best shooters in the Third World. Latin America has produced many shooters, but none as Edwin Vazquez Cam. Like Marlene Ottey, Marlene Arehns, James Gilkes and Lloyd Labeach, he has become a symbol in the Latin American sport. . DID YOU KNOW THAT... Shining Path, a group terrorist in Peru, has been called "The Khmer Rouge of Latin America. Abimael Guzman Reynoso, terrorist leader, has been compared to Pol Pot. The indigenous were victims of a delivete policy of genocide by Shining Path. More than 50,000 Peruvians have been killed by Shining Path.
FAMOUS PEOPLE BORN IN PERU: Mario Vargas Llosa (writer)...Hernando de Soto (economist)...Cesar Vallejo (writer)...Daniel Alomia Robles (composer)...Fernando Belaunde Ferry (ex President)...Fernando de Szyslo (painter)...Chabuca Granda (singer)... Susana Baca (singer)...Luis Flores (designer)...Victor Delfín (sculpter)...Jose Carlos Mariategui (writer), Javier Perez de Cuellar (diplomatic), Alfredo Bryce Echenique (writer)...
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-Guevara Onofre, Alejandro. Historia de la Mujer de los Estados Unidos, Cecosami
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Alejandro Guevara Onofre:I am a writer about Third World issues (human rights, biographies, culture, history, olympic sport, democracy, women s rights). I have many books (Mundototal, Power and Woman, and History of Women in the United States) and essays (Dictatorship and Woman:The First Lady of the Cuban Revolution, Taiwan:Democracy and Human Development, Culture and Dictatorships, Fidel Castro and Sport, Pol Pot , Robert Mugabe and Dictatorship, Indira Gandhi and Alberto Fujimori:The Last Dictatorship. I have studies in Journalism, Political Science and International
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