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The need to have more parks versus the need to have more houses. By Nelson Peñaherrera C . Photographs provided by ImaginaParque. PIURA CITY, Peru - The hunger for money and the need for a home seem to be pushing the invasion of public spaces for parks. The right of someones is literally drowning the right of a community needing oxygen and regulating the climate, also creating or keeping  ecosystems those got to adapt inside urban spaces. And inside that same urban space, there are human beings who need a place to live, and the whole controversy seem to base upon right here. The denounces of lots usurpation across Piura City  are daily and they all configure alleged criminal schemes  those even the local Catholic Church has been pressumibily involved, as Qatar-based Al-Jazeera TV network suggested mid-December 2016 . In contrast at Santa Julia Neighborhood, located at city's western sector, it try to prevent another future park to disappear combining urbanism a...

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...

By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo . Photographs provided by Antenor Orrego Private University.   Photos by Antenor Orrego Private University.   Photo by erick Aquino.   PIURA CITY, Peru – Without intention,Marcela Temple Seminario became one of the most powerful women in earth, she knew how to use  it – the wife of former United Nations Organization’s General Secretary Javier Perez de Cuellar served the poorest people.   Through a prestigious international newspaper, she published a letter asking for solidarity with Timbocttu, Mali, an African country where the kids lived in extreme poverty. She impressed to see the flies putting on the children’s skin.   The post was successful, moved the entire world… or that happened in the 1980s, at least. Few people know Marcela Temple born and raised in Piura. Her family’s house is still in the downtown, inside the so-called Monumental Zone .   It’s one of dozen  of buildings framed in...

The first month of the worst environmental disaster in Peruvian shores history – the most media-trendy, at least.     VENTANILLA, Peru – On Saturday, January 15 th , 2022, while the Pacific Ocean was in alert due to a tsunami caused by the blast and collapse of a volcano in Tonga Islands , Italy’s Mare Doricum petroleum ship downloaded Brazilian crude to La Pampilla Refinery , operated by spain’s Repsol corporation .   Around 17:10 PET (2310 GMT) , it was notified the downloading hoses broke. Initially, all seemed to be a 26.9-feet stain, or the equivalent to a 1.6-feet-side square, and 0.16 barrels, according to Repsol’s preliminary information. For January 23 rd , Peru’s environment Ministry estimated that 11,900 petroleum barrels spilled in the sea. One petroleum barrel equals 42 U.S. gallons or 159 liters.   The next day, Sunday 16 th , who attended Cavero Beach mid-morning found the water inked in black, a heavy smell. For Wednesday 19th, Repso...

CNN en Español ranks Piura as a good touristic destination in Latin America. By El Regional de Piura | Cambiar a español   Foca Island, Paita District Coast. It interested to our audience in Malaysia, United Kingdom, and United States. Through this story you will see the destinations with better performance for our followers on social media. Get the full story here Photo by Giuseppe Aguinaga , distributed by FACTORTIERRA The wide geographic and social-cultural space that Piura Region means, comes being recognized as an important touristic destination. According to existent information, it has become a trend as a Peruvian touristic destination in Latin America for the vacation time, Atlanta-based CNN en Español news network highlighted when quoting a report  about global-wide travel websites. (The network broadcasts in Spanish language, it is available across the Americas.) The prestigious medium points out that according to Viajala , a hotel-&-flight f...