White: Purity
Black: The dark past of Yemen
An interview by the journalist César Hildebrandt with Juan Velasco Alvarado, published in the magazine Caretas on February 3, 1977.General, now perhaps you have time to make reflections that you could not do before, have you about the true objective of his government? Yes, I have.How would you rate
If you are one of those who thinks that the Inca was a being of light, you are not wrong. He was one in his own way and according to the principles that prevailed in those times. But what we must respect is his right that he was a human being, with ambitions, mistakes, defects and virtues. A man wit
The Andean country is the last former Spanish colony in South America to celebrate its bicentennial. The other eight South American countries that emancipated themselves from the Spanish crown celebrated their bicentennials long before. Bolivia and Ecuador commemorated it in 2009. Venezuela, Argenti
Compared to other countries, Peruvians have built an official memory of independence as a process that came from outside and minimizing the participation of Peruvians, says the renowned historian. For many generations, Peruvians have been commemorating July 28, 1821 as “the day of our independence”.