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El llamado rey del desierto aún no expande toda su majestad.  Se le considera el árbol emblemático de la costa del departamento de Piura -no crece arriba de los 500 metros de altitud, normalmente- y se supone que cuando llegaron los españoles en 1532, ya estaba dominando el paisaje.  Los conquistadores lo relacionaron inmediatamente con el algarrobo europeo ( Ceratonia siliqua ) y le asignaron ese nombre a la especie que los indígenas conocían como tako , según una investigación de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), aunque algunos arqueólogos consultados por FACTORTIERRA dudan de esta versión. La voz algarrobo , en efecto, es árabe-hispana: al-arruba , que viene del persa alarrub , que podría significar quijada de burro, curiosamente el animal que más la consume y el que no cesa de mastticarla aquí en Piura; sin embargo, la voz describe a la especie europea, aparentemente no relacionada genéticamente con la sudamer...

The so-called king of the desert doesn't expand all its majesty yet.  It is considered as the emblematic tree of Piura  Department's Coast -it normally doesn't grow over than 1650 feet altitude- and it is supposed the Spaniards found it here dominating the landscape when they arrived here in 1532.  The conquerors fastly related it to the European carob tree ( Ceratonia siliqua ), then assigned that name to the species that locals called tahko , according to a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)'s research , although some archeologists asked by FACTORTIERRA doubt about that theory. the carob word, actually, has Arabic roots - alarrooba , coming from Persian alarroob what means donkey's jaw, curiously the animal that consumes it a lot and never stops to chew it here in Piura.  However, the word describes the European species, apparently not related genetically to South American one, the Prosopis pallida actually. FAO states Italian scientist  ...

Are there mining agents using the same methods for dismissing their debunkers?   by Liliana Alzamora Flores & Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   SULLANA, Peru – An environmentalist leader denounces attempts against his environment and he doesn’t shut up despite the threats. He’s murdered and his killer leaves many clues to discover him, but by some reason –and there are documents proving it—his closest son in the fight ends becoming the top suspect of a criminal fact.   It’s the case of Arsecio Gonza Castillo but it’s also the same model of another happened in 2001 with the beloved Godofredo Garcia Baca . Was the same script followed up, or is there a criminal involvement for real on behalf of a justice that has been blocked?  Is it a vendetta?  But whose against whom?   Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011, four handmade miners were murdered near a minehole in Pueblo Nuevo de Santa Rosa Town, Suyo District , Ayabaca. It started to awake and the miner...

¿Hay agentes mineros que usan el mismo método para deshacerse de sus detractores?   Por Liliana Alzamora Flores y Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   SULLANA, Piura – Un líder ambientalista denuncia atentados contra su entorno y no se calla a pesar de las amenazas. Es asesinado y el asesino deja muchas pistas para descubrirlo. Pero, por alguna razón –y hay documentos que lo prueban- su hijo más cercano en la lucha  termina siendo el principal culpable de un hecho luctuoso.   Es el caso de Arsecio Gonza  Castillo; pero, es el mismo modelo de otro ocurrido en 2001 con el recordado Godofredo García Baca . ¿Se siguió el mismo libreto o realmente hay una participación dolosa en nombre de una justicia que ha sido bloqueada? ¿Es un acto de venganza? Pero, ¿de quién contra quién?   El miércoles 2 de marzo de 2011, cuatro mineros artesanales fueron asesinados cerca de un socavón, en el caserío de Pueblo Nuevo de Santa Rosa, distrito de suyo , Ayabaca. Come...

Since 1532, the history of Piura was not seen too shocked by a global impact event like the history of this town in San Lorenzo Valley.   TAMBOGRANDE, Peru – The most heart-breaking and baffling tale done about the history of this community is, no doubt, a Canadian Journalist’s who approached like a researcher and became one of the main keys for the world to understand the facts in its right perspective.   Coming next, we transcript the first minutes of the multi-awarded documentary Tambogrande – Mangos, Murder, Mining produced by Ernesto Cabellos and Stephanie Boyd, and what sets the causes of almost all the problems that led in social conflicts along the Peruvian territory.   If when you’re reading those lines, you can’t hold your emotion, just imagine what we felt who lived the whole story on live when we watched and listened to the Stephanie’s accented Spanish, something that was ever screamed out but that nobody dared to carry on until the end.   By Stephanie ...