People in Piura are waiting
for rains, and, the world reaches a record with merengué steps.
2022 Qatar Soccer World Cup is
started. Peru doesn’t participate in the tournament. However, there’s some
expectation for the teams of countries around – Argentina and Brazil are
favorites. Are yours too? Let me know in the comments box.
By the way, the last Peru’s
world cup was 2018 Russia. Our team was eliminated in the first round. But that
time, it played with the eventual world champion – France.
Get me on your favorite
social media. I’m @nelsonsullana: Is this the last Messi’s championship? Will
Brazil be champion for the seventh time? Does the Jules Rimet Cup stand in
Europe? Your bets are open.
Weather News
Here in Piura, many people
are concerned about rains. 2022 was a mixed year. In Piura lowlands, there was
no much rain. But in Piura highlands, it rained heavy.
Blocked roads and destroyed
bridges. That was the result of intense precipitations. But they were focused
over the Andean Range.
Rains are typical at
highlands. But they are also usual at lowlands. That happens from January to
March. It matches to Austral summer.
The reason why it did not
rain at lowlands is La Niña. In simple words, it consists in cooling water. The
sea surface temperature, or SST, falls under its usual record. In consequence,
the cold increases along Chile and Peru. The cold doesn’t cause evaporation. So
the clouds have no enough water steam. In consequence, there is no rain.
Argentina Meteorological
Service forecast La Niña could continue until February 2023. The phenomenon has
been prevalent since 2020. Until September 2022, there was no indication the
SST could rise.
The International Institute
for the Weather Research and Columbia University coincide there is 75% of
chance La Niña continues until February 2023. After that, it could weaken. There
are two possible scenarios: the SST returns to its usual record, the SST rises,
creating El Niño conditions.
Peru’s Astronomer Abraham
Levy also forecast el Niño could return in 2023 austral summer. The question is…
how much strong.
In Peru’s case, models show
possible rains. They may fall over the Amazon Jungle. Also, it may rain at
Peruvian Southern. The rest of Peru is unknown.
Meteorologist suggest to follow
short-term forecasts.
For more information, go to
factortierra.blogspot.com Write weather in the query box. Remember following me
as @nelsonsullana.
Global Issues
How many people are we on Earth?
Until November 15th, 8 billion exactly. This was reported by United Nations. The
fact was spread for the World Day of Population.
The 8-billion baby born in
Dominican Republic.
UN says the population will
continue growing the next years: 8.5 billion for 2030, 9.7 billion for 2050, 10.4
billion for 2080.
In contrast, world’s population
is only growing 1% per year since 1950: 2 of 3 world’s inhabitants live in
countries where women have 2 babies for the lifetime. Education, health, gender
equality – this could be the recipe for birth control. For 2050, 61 countries
may have this rate under 1%.
Population seems to grow
around Indian Ocean. Africa is raising too. The most populated country is
China, currently. According to UN, no more for 2023. The first place will be… India.
For more results, go to
UNhabitat.org. Also comment on the social media. Look for me as @nelsonsullana.
Before leaving, two stories
you may be interested in.
If any of your body parts are
too sexy that people can embarrass you, go to chulucanasgym.blogspot.com. – There
are some helpful tips for you.
An actor brings to the
theater, a play based upon a classic of theLatin American literature. He got applause and recognition. That actor was
born here, in Sullana. Get the full story on factortierra.blogspot.com
The graphic artists DandyRuiz Estrada and the students of Mallaritos School made a wall paint. It’s going
to be presented on Wednesday 23rd. This is going to happen in
Mallaritos, a suburb of the Sullana Metro Area. As possible, I will have a Nelson
Live about it for you. Stay connected to my social media.
Beginning
2013, the songwriter Javier Jofré was under much
pressure – Reconnected, his album was
amid the forge and he tried not to stress. “Perhaps someone has an eye closer
the healthy, become awarest of the things, of environment, of what someone
breaks out day after day… this record has a little bit of that,” he reflected.
Up to
this date,Javier is 35 years old, 6 feet height, 165 pounds weight. He’s a fan
of the soccer, basket, carting, and adventure sports. “It’s a routine to eat
almonds, nuts, raisings, cereals, drink much water, I dismissed many flavorized
juices I drank before, then I ever go to the gym and I work out my daily
routine,” he told me.
As
well as his physical and mental health, Javier cares the coherence of harmony
and message although it costed him to be censored. Ending 2012, YouTube banned
his song This Is Not because of an
apparent violation of the community rules. The song criticizes the excesses of
humankind and its cult to consumerism.
Looking
at the net, Javier thought some of his songs could be staged in locations at
the Chira Valley. The detail is he lives in Argentina. While I listen to him in
Sullana City, the most important one bathed by the
second most polluted river of Peru –according to Oxfam—, many people ignore if
they are part of the statistics about non-transmittable physical and mental
health conditions in the province, rather if there is such statistics.
At
least, the mental health is actually mentioned on the Local Educational Project,
and before the Covid-19 pandemic aggravated, the attempts to suicide and those
reached to commit could be linked to cases of school stalking and bullying
judging the testimonials of relatives and who survived for telling it. During
the pre-pandemic age, some teachers complained that, although they want to
correct the problem, they have the tied hands because “today we can’t touch the
student.”
Some
high-school senior students, who claimed to be bullying victims in an
experimental advisory work, developed by FACTORTIERRA in 2010, told the
stalking becomes real and endures because some teachers are part of that
problem – intolerance to homosexuality. “But I’m not gay,” one of the guys,
then 16 years old, confessed to me.
“what happens is as they see you are good mannered and peaceful, they think
you’re a pussy.”
After
that, he studied History and Cultural Management at a Piura City’s university.
Unlike other dudes at his age, he doesn’t consume alcohol, smoke, do sports,
and he almost didn’t attend to the discos. The most attended ones of Sullana
City were the located on José de Lama Avenue’s 18th square, Santa
Rosa Bourgh, the meeting point for youth every weekend.
Because
of a local resolution that forces the spree to finish at three in the morning,
who wanted to continue it, bought alcohol and filled the park of López Albújar
Bourh’s first zone.
This
is the ‘sucesor’ of elba Cruz (formerly called Kumamoto) Park, Jardín Bourgh,
where the neighborhood did all possible to scare spreers who woke up drinking
alcohol, listening to the music totally aloud, and having sex within the
shadows of the garden yards. Much music they listen to comes from Puerto Rico,
a U.S. free-associated state, where the 2012 version of the Mental Health Handbook
specifies that getting drunk, even occasionally, can be rated as alcoholism.
There
were still dudes who went to spend overnight at Elba Cruz Park but less
crowded. A truck of Sullana Province Municipality’s Communitarian Security
tried to seize some beers to a bunch of college studs although some feet away,
evident teenagers did the same but they were not touched.
Walking
up 330 feet, there is a sports field, one of the most attended of Sullana Metro
Area. During the pre-pandemic age, it was used to thunder the bourgh with
parties in the open. There are around a hundred across the city. The youth
–let’s convine the population between 15 and 35 years old—used those spaces to
have fun and, in principle, to socialize.
It’s
not the only sports infrastructure of the metro area. The emblematic stage is Campeones
del 36 Stadium, unfinished for a long time after a lawsuit during the former
Mayor Jaime Bardales administration, and up to date turned into a campaign
hospital for moderate and severe Covid-19 patients. Inside the province, the
situation of this infrastructure is mixing, according to the sports journalist
Joe Navarro, host of Radio Nuevo Norte 860 Am’s Frecuencia Deportiva newscast.
“The
stadium of Lancon’es already has a perimetrical wall, querecotillo’s has no
advance, Salitral is one of the less supporters to sport, Marcavelica is
building a 800-people tribune [wwith a rain drainage], Ignacio Escudero is
making an integral project to improve progressively the Pablo Cruz Carrera
Stadium, and Miguel Checa’s is one of the best sports stages,” he reviewed in
2013.
Paradoxically,
Miguel Checa, just in Western Sullana, is the lowest available budget district
but had the privilege to be the home of Talara’s Atlético Torino soccer team
during the 2012 Peru Cup because its facilities were the best conserved across
the province. For Navarro, the metro area has a bad rate – in fact, instead of
running in Campeones del 36, many athletes prefer to work out in Huamán de los
Heros Pier having the polluted Chira dam as a background.
On
february 6th, 2013, Sullana Municipality announced it would recuperate that
space and the next Turicarami Lane where is projected to build a amphitheater
and even an open-air gym, and as the facilities don’t do sports but the people,
I asked Joe for a list of highlighted athletes of the province. The exercise I
proposed him mis dismissing the soccer because, as he says by himself, has much
investment, so publicity.
Joe
spent several seconds silent and him didn’t give me an answer. Looking for
archives, I found two elementary school students made a difference in chess:
José Antonio Díaz Moscol and Dennis Daniel Sánchez Herrera, with Del Norte
School, wwere considered for the Piura Department team of the so-called
science-sport.
One
of Joe’s workmates, the radio producer James Ojeda has become, not wishing, a
biking advocate. Between 1999 and 2019, supported by Nuevo Norte, launched Por Las Rutas De La Integración (On The
Integration Routes), a caravan that looked to unite Peru and Ecuador as a
homage to the 1998 Peace Agreement.
Then,
I tried something new with Joe. If what has proliferated the most in Sullana
are the gyms, why don’t we have more athletes? “To an amateur athlete results
expensive to go to a gym – can’t pay for it,” he stressed. “You are never going
to find a true athlete in there.” Those places have multiplied in the metro area.
Just in Downtown Sullana, the only one was Hercules for 20 years. At this
report’s deadline, FACTORTIERRA could count 5 remarkable ones.
Hercules
was a Project started up by Félix Merino Luna on the third block of Jose de
Lama Avenue beginning 1980s. Because it was a hit, he summoned his cousin Luis Lucho Bulnes Luna, then both began a
promotion trail of physical culture and
bodybuilding,
that the second one continued.
Lucho,
after being one of the first entering contests (in 1982 when the discipline
wondered the people)is a freelance trainer now. In 2011, when Sullana was 100
years old as a province, he was recognized as the trainer of trainers. After
leaving his cousin, Lucho moved to Piura Street, then 1st Street,
and finally Salaverry Bourgh.
Right
there in 2002, a 20-year-old dude entered as is pupil, and because of his
training as an army commando, became one of the most notable in Lucho’s Gym:
Alfredo Rivera, who was the fourth runner in 2011 Mister Sullana, when Lucho
was recognized, and ggot focused on the department circuit. “I need
sponsorship… I’ve not found support yet,” told me who also became a trainer. He
didn’t get it. Today, he lives and trains at the jungle of Cusco Department.
FACTORTIERRA
contacted other trainers and athletes but the appointments were not possible,
or it resulted that nobody knew nobody else.
Although
he is also fan of the weights and barbells, the painter Fernando Chang, 40, was
frustrated on his career like a soccer player when he was just 6 years old.
“They said me I wouldn’t have anything by kicking a ball.” Despite, he had time
to playonce a week and twice by exception, and working out at the gym or his
home. “That takes me off the stress.”
When
the time to choose a career came in, he was in Trujillo, La Libertad, and
entered the Fine Arts school to develop his other talent – drawing aand
painting. He pitches a most diverse proposal that is not centered in a particular
style but it tries to express what he thinks the people prefer to ignore. “I
fuse the classical with the abstract (…) I’m working on the marginal issue – my
models are the street people, washing the cars, asking for charity. I work on
the responsible parenthood concept,” he explains.
Chang
has two key milestones in his career: to expose in Europe and to be one of the
promoters with the first and only private permanent art gallery in Sullana –
the lobby of Santa Rosa School which he is a former student. “I proposed [to
Principal Brother Félix Saeta y Gutiérrez] to create an art gallery, he only
said me – let’s do it,” he remembers.
He
has taught drawing and painting for kids but that’s not what he has to deal
with: “In arts, there is also prejudge and rejection… from other colleagues.
Many people think the new ones don’t make art because we don’t follow up the
trend.” The painter believes it’s a problem of ideosyncracy and he told me that
in Trujillo, the so-called recognized artists end to be mentors of the new
ones, a few spread practice in Piura.
Also,
he says there is sponsorship from the private sector in that city. However, he
feels there is a cultural evolution in Sullana, and despite, it is granted to
the former province’s Mayor Jorge Camino Calle’s support (a discrete collector
of art pieces). Chand is part of a community of almost one hundred plastic
artists in the metro area those, in spite of becoming known and exposing to pay
the bills, are separated.
In the case of a
disperse and anonymous athletes community, the leagues –except soccer—don’t
work, Joe Navarro observed, because of leadership troubles. For his partner
James Ojeda, the problem is the absence of support: “When you go to knock on the
doors as an athlete, you are not sponsored or it’s few, you knock on the doors
and you dismotivate.”
While
how the physical and mental health of people is statistically ignored, the
field interventions will be purely inconsistent and declarative because it will
not be anything real to hold on. The media don’t talk about this reality,
although to express fairly, the late Sullana-native singer Michelly
Portocarrero achieved to catch the national audience by imitating a famous
colleague by her scandals instead of her big voice.
Almost
nobody remembers that Lucy watanabe or eva Ayllón launched their careers in
Sullana when the Feria de Reyes Song Festival was respected four decades ago.
Amid that frame, Javier Jofré’s music is already listened in Piura (and
Tambograndé in particular). Could his attention call against the indifference
to environment and the own being flourish in Sullana?
