History with All the Fixings
English + Español
On a chilly July day in the small town of Yauli, in Huancavelica, Peru, I was walking back from a day of excavations at the site of Atalla, a 3,000-year-old temple and settlement that I was…
Country: Peru
Terrorism in Peru
English + Español
One peaceful August morning in 1991, my grandfather, Orlando Zamalloa, was getting ready to go to work in Cusco, a small city in southern Peru…
Japanese Peruvians
Like many Americans, I knew that 120,000 ethnic Japanese had been held in U.S. concentration camps during World War II. But I had no idea about a secret program that had kidnapped…
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From Extraction to Construction
I began to study China and Latin America in 2008, quite by accident. While working as a research professor in Peru, I was invited by the Andean office of Oxfam to prepare an exploratory…
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A Commercial Hit That’s a Product of Censorship
English + Español
How do you picture “alpaca” in Chinese characters? With the December 2017 inauguration of the official store of the Peruvian Alpaca brand in a prestigious Beijing mall, and the launching a…