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The female leader Cleofé Neyra passed away ending April 2021. Her name jumped up after being identified like one of the tortured women up next a protest at the straight former Majaz mining camp.   By Alan Cristóbal Pintado Salinas (PENSAMIENTO PROFANO )  

How much do users of Piura, Peru's health post family Planning service kknow about emergency oral contraception? By Marco Paulini .   LANCONÉS, Peru -- Huasimal de la Solana belongs to Lanconés District, Sullana Province  and it is located 50 km northeast its capital city. Lanconés District limits by the North to Tumbés Department and ecuador, by the South to Sullana and Querecotillo Districts (Sullana), by the East to Las Lomas (Piura) and Suyo (Ayabaca) Districts, and by the West to Marcavelica District (Sullana). It's sunny along the year. Poechos Reservoir has created a mycroclimate in the zone, that estimulates fog in the winter. In the rainy season, the village leaves isolated because almost all Lanconés is divided by creeks. We are talking about ways for cars or donkeys, using in some places the creeks courses. Most people move on animals, motorcycles, by walking, an few by car. Getting communicated by phone is complicated but there is actual access to mas...

CHULUCANAS, Peru – When the 2017 Census published its results, the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI as its initials in Spanish) revealed that the population of Piura Department had surpassed 1.85 million inhabitants. Estimates for 2023 consider that this figure is around two million.   The same 2017 Census showed that out of the entire population of the department, 125,000 people identified as Afro- descendants .   Statistically, Piura is the second most populous department in Peru. At that time, another indicator was added: it has the second largest Afro-Peruvian community , with three out of every 20 inhabitants being Afro-descendants, speaking in purely Piura terms. Proportionally, this means three out of every 20 inhabitants in the second most populous department of Peru are Afro-descendants.       Of the entire Afro-descendant community in Piura, 47% are women .   According to NGO Kaikuna , Afro-descendant wo...

SULLANA, Peru – Health specialists sustain that the breast cancer is one of those causing most death amid women across Peru and the world, but it is also one that can be treated successfully if detected on time, and everything because of the self-test. That is why the Universidad Nacional de Frontera (UNF) summoned the Obstetrician Marco Paulini , our science and public health coordinator, for educating the community about this issue. “It’s important that every woman, since she begins the puberty, get accostumed to watch her breasts, know them very intimately, identifying their normal anatomic shape to determine when it could present an alteration,” he explained. “It’s vital importance to self-test the breasts  to see any change in shape or consistence, touching them too by rubbing them clockwise and detecting any strange bulge that was not there before,” Paulini reminded. “If that happens, the next step is going inmediatly to the health post to discard it.” ...

Although this drink is spread everywhere in Latin America, at Peruvian Andean Northern it has a special connotation not for a particular preparation procedure but the meaning that the people have given to it.       For Huancabamba ’s people, at the Andean Range of Piura Region, the eggnog means thanks, folk . Of course, there is no regarding written rule but judging because of the occasions context it has been served, it is almost a ritual.     This drink is only brought wwhen somebody wants to recognize someone else –much more if foreigner—some kind of favor or simply the fact of having a very nice meeting. The preparation is simple: a egg white is taken in a soup dish, and it is shaken with a spoon until getting snow point. It’s true that shakers relieve the hard work, but for any reason, the modern times do not enter this field yet.     Usually, the shake has been a female job. Today, menand women do the work, although the most of times, t...

 S ource of pride for Piura in NASA   TALARA, Peru – Alexandra Castro, a fifth-year high school student at 15513 "Emblemática Talara " School, has achieved a unique experience: visiting the Houston Space Center , one of the most iconic places in space exploration history, as part of the She is an Astronaut program.   Sponsored by SLB, this initiative empowers girls through Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics ( STEAM ), encouraging them to pursue careers in these fields.   The She is an Astronaut program, launched in 2019, selects talented girls from Latin America , offering them an immersive STEAM education and the opportunity to visit NASA ’s Houston Space Center. The program challenges gender stereotypes and empowers future generations of female scientists and space explorers.   NASA: Pioneer in Space Exploration— Since its inception in 1958, NASA has been at the forefront of space exploration. From the historic Apollo p...

PIURA CITY, Peru - Breast, cervix, prostate, skin, stomach, lung. The prevalence of cancer cases seems to grow as the economy grows, or at least that is what public health specialists state, based on the improvement of incomes is not providing a better life quality but promoting a bigger alcohol, tobacco, and synthetic treatments consumption, also sedentary and overweight. The improvement of the lifestyle could prevent many of these conditions but any folk says not to have time for adopting it. That is why the Berenson Swimming Academy and the Peruvian League For Fighting The Cancer have joined to launch a cause that consists in promoting the physical exercise as a healthy lifestyle and using it to fundraise against the cancer. The Let’s Swim Against The Cancer initiative  consists in raising 5 soles or 1.5 dollars per every 100 meters or 109 yards to swim. Berenson Academy clarified it is not about a competition but to call professional, amateur swimmers, as well a...

The science already has an answer about why Piura Andes' medicinal plants heal.  All photographs provided by Fidel Torres .  PIURA, Peru - The potential of medicinal plants in Peru is enormous in terms of biodiversity, but restricted in terms of usefulness. The  investigations are focused on their power for treatment or healing diseases, but they are not enlarging their own perspective to other activities requiring them too, as cosmetology or nutrition.  This narrow vision also limits the economic potential for the communities where these species grow. In the other side, many of these investigations only arrive to gather the knowledge of the communities where that  biodiversity is located, treating them as a source but blocking them to participate into the scientific process. Add to  this the risk that biopiracy follows to represent, that gets data and results but it does not patent them as owned by this  country but it compromises them as ...

When her life seemed to be condemned to slavery, she found the light, fought for her family, left to be illiterate, and even she was in front of the 264 th Pope.   Written and photographed by Luis Paucar Temoche        PIURA CITY, Peru – She didn’t finish to understand. The last time that Josefa thought what she did and where she became brave from to do it –the clock marked that the twilight began to fall—a handle of tears slided down through her chicks. And she didn’t finish to understand. The only she remembered is that sunny afternoon in 1985, she was told to be chosen –among all the farmer women—to give a gift to the Holy Father during his visit to Piura .   The news got her without warning. She was so nervous that, immediately, her ffeet started to tremble and a –more or less cold—sweat streamwent around her forehead. “How am I going to be, if I’m a farmer woman?,” Josefa wondered, who though that everything she heard was a joke. She was cooking rice ...