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The quakes have a sort of weak point – the science learned how to take advantage of it.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo     SANTA MARÍA DE NIEVA, Peru – On November 28th, 2021, 5:52 PET (1052 GMT), a 7.5 magnitude quake shook Barranca District, Datem del Marañón Province , Loreto Department – it was mostly felt in the Peruvian Northern’s third and 19 of 24 provinces in Ecuador. A portion of Colombian Southern and a piece of Brasilian Western also felt the shake. A 3-year-old boy passed away, there were dozens of wounded, more than thousand injured, and such other damaged or unhabitable buildings.   Peru’s Geophysical Institute (IGP, as its initials in Spanish), the official bureau watching and reporting if a quake happens, launched a notification on the social media just 8 minutes after many people jumped out their beds in the most occidental portion of South America. The information came from Santa María de Nieva, Amazonas Department, 60 miles to...

The emergency couldn’t be avoided, but it could be managed properly with scientific perspective.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo     EL PASO (Canary Islands), Spain – On September 19 th , 2021, 15:10 local time (1410 GMT), a crack broke amid a pine forest at Cabeza de Vaca Place. A big amount of wáter steam, gases, pyroclastic matter, and lava began to flow like a jet – a volcano had borning.   During 85 days, the incandescent matter covered up around 4.6 sq mi, affected 3000 buildings, displaced 7000 people. Also, it razed banana plantations that support part of the economy in La Palma Island , the most north-western of Canary Islands. The tourism , that activates the other part of the economic motor, was held constant but not massive like the pre-eruptive period.   For the science, it was a time to secure learning and how it allows to administer a developing natural disaster, webcast worldwide real-time, just one casualty indirectly rela...

LIMA CITY, Peru – Latin American countries are looking for strengthening their systems of social protection in case of natural disasters due to  they seem to turn more frequent and intense, what put the life of the people and the economy of every territory under risk. In consequence, they can slow down the advance in reduction of poverty. The Latin American countries are mostly exposed to natural disasters, what motivated the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (MIDIS as in Spanish), the World Bank, and the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) join to organize a forum for sharing practices and learned lessons  about  the adaptative mechanisms  of social protection that allow to innovate management tools which benefit the poorest and vulnerable population. The officials and experts of 26 Latin American and Caribbean countries with the specialists from participant institutions focused on analyzing adaptative systems of social protection th...

The Sullana-native actor has a successful adaptation of a Latin-American classic amid his highlights, and bringing that art inside his hometown.   By Nelson         Peñaherrera Castillo   Every word has power. I’m not talking about divinity, neither metaphysics. If you can read aloud the first sentence of this paragraph, and you can vary the tone or the intention, it’s possible you notice it. It’s better if you are alone, not to avoid others doubt on your mental balance but learning to hear yourself in the silence, and discovering what your communication skill is. That is what the Sullana-native actor Nerit Olaya Guerrero (1958) is doing.   Once upon a Good day, after reading again the Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti (Paso de los Toros, Sep. 14, 1920 – Montevideo, May 17, 2009), he conceived a play based upon his novel The Truce (1960), that tells the story of a retired man who loses his wife and builds a new relati...