Nostalgia and melancholy prompted Garcilaso de la Vega to write about the Incas, his ancestors, of whom capricious stories were told. The Peruvian mestizo wanted to answer these falsehoods and became the king of the chroniclers.The mestizos:the result of the meeting of two worlds Francisco Pizarro
By Juan José Pacheco Ibarra UNMSM Historian How did the ancient people of Lima celebrate Christmas? In the 19th century, Christmas was a true religious holiday, very different from the one we celebrate now. Christmas was the central celebration of a series of activities that lasted throughout the
The halt vote represented an imposing and arbitrary electoral form imposed by the colonels. Definition Halter vow is an expression given by the superposition of two words. Thus, we have Vote , which is the full exercise of democracy; and the word Halt , from Latin capistrum , which means gag or br
The deep traces left in society by the reforms undertaken more than four decades ago by the military government of Juan Velasco Alvarado are analyzed by the historian Nelson Manrique in an interview with the journalist Edmundo Cruz published in the newspaper La República in 2009, when he 41 years ha