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It’s tinest than a dot on the map but it was the shelter of stars, honest fishers, a prince, and especially Hemingway.   Written and photographed by Luis Paucar Temoche   EL ALTO, Peru – everybody stopped to wait for him when the plane began to land over the airport lane. A morning, beginning the autumm, April 16th, 1956, Ernest Hemingway appeared smiley in the door of the Pan-American Grace airline’s Douglas DC7B plane in Talara, a Peruvian Northwestern city, with the elegance of a tourist who sets sailing in search of relax.   It was 7:30 in the morning and the writer looked a wwhite beard of many days. He wore a checkered khaki suit, a blue shirt that fit him slimmed, and a long tie he set carefully every certain time. Sometimes he said hello to the journalists. “Ernest, ernest, Ernest,” they said and shot the flashes of their old cameras. “He puffed his rabbit’s chicks and smiled again,” Manuel Jesús Orbegoso says in one of his chronicles. “everything wa...

Everybody was chasing Vargas Llosa but he seemed to chase another remarkable Piura-native man.   By Roberto Saavedra (special to FACTORTIERRA).   CHULUCANAS, Peru – Imagine that somebody knocks on your door in a shiny morning, you open it and… what a surprise! Mister Fernando Barranzuela? It’s not another guy. It’s about Mario Vargas Llosa , the reknown Peruvian writer, 2010 Nobel Award of Literature. Although the poet Fernando Barranzuela used to had visits of many people, this one marked a before and an after.   The missing land Piura is not a strange land for the novelist, playright, essayist, journalist, and even actor. He spent his childhood and teenage there. He studied at San Miguel School, wrote and produced his first theater play, knew that his father –whom he belief to be died—lived, learned to make love.   Vargas Llosa arrived on Monday, March 5 th , 2012, and had two homages, one at the campus of Piura National University and another else at Merino Squ...

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...

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...