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By Dr Fernando Huamán Flores University of Piura Since Peru connected to the Internet ffor the first time in 1994 [1], many things have changed. We live in a social-media-embeded society, the audiences are informed and take decisions from the mobile telephone [2],  the organizations begin to dialogue in a horizontal way with the citizens, TV-viewers leave the traditional media and choose streaming platforms, deciding how and when to entertain, the politicians are not responsing only to the big media yet, but they face a digital public opinion that asks them from a comfortable home. So, the technology goes transforming our vital and usual spaces, and it is configuring a new society that, progressively and slowly, understands the things are not like before yet. The penetration of Internet in Peru is a sustained phenomenom, that according to GFK (2019), stands 56% nationwide, in rural and urban places. Although there is still an important percentage of Per...

By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo “The teachers  must remember they’re educating for life,” Proffessor María Elena Gracia underlines. She is a specialist in training, study plan design, and educational management with the Technological University of Chile’s INACAP. “And educating for life means to teach our students to solve practical problems and prepare them for continuing to learn,” she explains. The master-ddegree proffessor and graduated teacher on Castilian Language at reputated universities in the South-American country speaks firmly on her conceptions but tender on her directions, an attitude that catches the attention of her colleagues instantaneously. Mrs Gracia was in Sullana, Peru, holding a conference in November 18 th and workshops in Piura, Peru, between November 20 th to 23 rd mainly addressed to teachers and Education students with the purpose of exploring the benefits of critic and creative thinking in the classroom. “Our challenge as teachers...

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...

    Photographs provided by Dandy Ruíz Estrada, distributed by FACTORTIERRA.   MARCAVELICA, Peru – Perhaps the most difference between an artist and somebody who’s not in it lays over his skill to see the beauty, or the possibility to make it up, right there where we see something usual or insignificant. That was why Dandy Ruíz Estrada , a.k.a. El Dandy, made as much as possible for the wall of a school turned a canvas of a collective creation.   “We’re losing the identity,” stresses the 40-year-old visual artist, Mallaritos-native, a town forming now one urban zone with Marcavelica, both part of Sullana Metro Area, the largest of Chira Valley .   At Andrés avelino Cáceres School, also known as Mallaritos, El Dandy and students of the three first high-school grades took over than 120 feet of wall –almost the front yard of 4 average houses in Sullana—and they started to represent frames of the local identity and ecology , as well as the histor...