Peru’s Prime Minister Aníbal
Torres criticized the Peruvian
anchorwoman Sol Carreño. Torres said Carreño is a bad woman and a bad wife.
Mrs. Carreño is a lawyer, who
hosts Cuarto Poder every Sunday evening. Cuarto Poder is an investigative
journalism show. It’s produced by America Television Network, in Lima City. The
anchorwoman is one of the hardest critics to Peru’s President Pedro Castillo.
Anibal Torres statement
reactivated the misogyny accusations in the Peruvian Government. Misogyny is
feeling aversion for women, or distrust them for the only fact of being women. It
also reactivated the discussion about the productive and reproductive roles of
women. The first one refers to the way she evolves in terms of profession,
politics, arts, and culture. The second one refers specifically to motherhood.
Feminism in general
understands a woman can conciliate both roles in harmony. Even, it believes the
woman can choose one over the another . Feminism opines if the woman chooses in
freedom, then she can grow and evolve.
This theory came out from the
leftist movements worldwide. Peru’s President Pedro Castillo has acted inspired
by the left every time. Actually, the left condemns misogyny, sexism,
homophobia, racism, xenophobia. In the end, every discrimination way you can
figure out.
Peru’s Prime Minister Torres
tried to distract this issue by pushing the Congress. He tried to dismiss the
corruption accusations against President Castillo. Of course, this move was
taken after the aggression against Sol Carreño.
What do you think about a
government acting by misogyny? Comment me on the social media. Look for me
as @nelsonsullana.
Ruling into Religion
Peruvian Government
proclaimed Señor Cautivo of Ayabaca like the master saint of the cultural
identity in Peruvian Northern. Independently, the action was assumed like
endorsing to Peruvian Catholic Church.
Peruvian episcopal
Conference’s President, Monsignor Pedro Barreto asked Peru’s President Pedro
Castillo to resign. Barreto also asked Peru’s Congress to call for general
elections before the usual deadline. Peruvian Government tried to meet Peruvian
episcopal Conference.
Formerly, Monsignor Barreto
proposed himself to mediate in the Peruvian political crisis. The left criticized
him for getting into political issues.
In the other hand, choosing
Señor Cautivo was not random. The image of a hands-tied Christ gathers one of
the largest devotion in Peruvian Northern and Ecuadorian Southern. Ayabaca
City is here, in Piura Department.
Piura is the third largest
electoral market in Peru. We’re talking about a million and a half voters. During
the last presidential race, Castillo lost Piura Department.
Señor Cautivo of Ayabaca is a
Wood sculpture, possibly made in 1572. The legend says it was made by angels. Its
festivity runs along October. Its pilgrimage can raise thousand and thousand of
praisserss.
Piura Department was shook
again by a quake, last Wednesday overnight, UTC. A 5.2 magnitude event was
registered at 0115 UTC. The hypocenter was 18 miles depth. The epicenter was 30
miles to the east of Máncora. It means it happened pretty inland. Máncora felt
the quake with 4th intensity.
24 hours before, Peru had a
preventive drill in case of disasters. It was the third one organized by Peru’s
Institute of Civil Defense. Its purpose was training us to react if the hazard
comes at night. People didn’t participate massively.
Máncora, Chira Valley, and
Sechura Bay are the areas with much seismicity across Piura, Peru. It’ss based
upon reports by Peru’s Geophysical Institute.
How to do if a quake happens?
Get advice on factortierra.blogspot.com. Write quake in the query box.
Do you have more questions? Ask
me on the social media. Look for me as @nelsonsullana.
Changes for fan-pages
Facebook sent a short email
to account owners. the social network told the classic interface will be replaced
by a new version. The change will be progressive. Currently, Facebook allows to
switch between the classic version and the new one. That option will be
disabled in the next months.
At the moment, Facebook
didn’t give more details.
The social network has been
changing the interface for personal accounts. It’s a version much more
compatible to Instagram and WhatsApp.
Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp are managed by Meta.
If you are using the new version,
share your opinion. Look for me on the social media as @nelsonsullana.
Before leaving
Good news for rock fans. My
article about this genre’s history here in Piura Department is available now in
digital. Go to this blog below. This digital version
includes a video clip you can appreciate better if you put your headphones on.
It’s also available on my
Instagram and Twitter accounts. Look for me as @nelsonsullana.
If you like mango, Peru is up
to export it, and this land doesn’t stop to shake.
Don’t lose your head
Last Tuesday 25th,
many spray shampoo brands were taken out of the market. Unilever took out Dove,
Suave, and Tiggy, among others.
The cause is benzine. This is
a petroleum-derivate capable to give cancer. The lot was made in October 2021. It
was delivered to retailers across the US. The information came out from the
Food and Drugs Administration, the FDA.
According to CNN, benzine can
cause cancer to humans. The ways to enter our bodies are by breathing it,
through the mouth, and through the skin. The chemical can cause leukemia and
blood cancer.
FDA recommended the consumers
not to use spray dry shampoo. If you live in the US, go to unileverrecall.com
for further information. We ignore if the recommendation reaches other
countries. Follow me as @nelsonsullana for updates.
It’s mango time
Here in Piura Department, the
mango season is already started. The Mango exporters Association, or APEM as in
Spanish, announced the international sales may reach until 285,000 tons. To
make a comparison, the last mango season, Peru sold almost 328,000 tons. This
is 73,000 tons more than the estimation for this season.
Mango season officially
begins in September, ends in March. Peru sold 447 million dollars the last
mango season, according to freshfruit.pe. The stats include fresh mango, cold
mango, and processed mango. According to freshfruit, it was a significant
amount, but not enough.
The oficial numbers are more
conservative for the last mango season. Peru’s Ministry of agrarian Development
and Irrigation reported over 240,000 tons. This is 45,000 tons les than
the estimation for actual mango season.
Here in Piura Department, the
main mango grower is San Lorenzo Valley. This is about 30 miles away my actual
location. I’m talking about the famous Tambograndé District. San Lorenzo Valley
has been capable to grow until 330,000 tons during the best mango seasons.
Across Peru, there are 30,000
hectares growing mango. This is less than the decime part of Rhode Island
State. There are 14,000 mango growers in Peru. Some of them told me, they
expected the peak of the season happened this October. There are no actual numbers
yet.
The main mango markets are
the US, Europe, and Japan recently. Tell me how much you pay for just one mango. Meanwhile, here in Piura, we
are already enjoying this tasty fruit. Learn more about: go to
factortierra.blogspot.com Write mango in the query box.
The land continues shaking
Last Tuesday 25th
night, Peruvian time, a 4.7 magnitude quake broke out. The epicenter was just 7 miles to the west of Sullana Downtown. The
hypocenter was 35 miles depth. On Saturday 29th, a 4.1 magnitude
quake struck 15 miles to the west of Sullana Downtown. The hypocenter was 18
miles depth. Both ones were weaker than
the 6.1 magnitude we experienced last October 5th.
But at Peruvian Southern,the
land doesn’t stop to move. Íca Department, located just to the south of Lima
Department, felt until 12 quakes along Friday 28th. Peru’s
Geophysical Institute explained the quakes here were caused by the Nazca Plate.
It is embedding under the South American
Plate.
Quakes cannot be forecast. But,
if you live in a seismic zone, you must be ready:
Join the prevention drills.
Have your emergency kit.
Check the buildings where you
live, work, amuse,pray… everywhere, in the end.
Follow the official
instructions.
And over all, trust in
official sources. Remember that not all we have on the social media is true.
Learn to keep calm.
And if a quake breaks out
right now, remember the Three Golden Mexican Rules: no running, nno pushing, no screaming.
From playing the alien to the
own – from face-to-face to the virtual platform.
The rock is a music genre that came out from a cultural mix in the United States as well
as United Kingdom. Such
disparate rhythms like the blues, the jazz, or the country were the ingredients
those were used amid 20th century for bringing the rock & roll
to life, and starting from it, one decade later, to go configuring the rock
like a cultural movement that globalized, even before the first Arpanet
transmission, the predecessor of Internet,so far as 1969.
The Groove could arrive into
Piura in 1967, although only covers were initially played. The experienced
was not a brise but a blizzard. “More than 80 bands appeared,” Juan
Francisco Facundo Silva, 43,
tells me. He is one of the few genre’s advocates, at least in the two largest
cities of Piura Department.
“I’m talking you about 1960s
and 1970s like Scarface, The Delfines, The Jailers, The stones,” he remembers
quoting an investigation by Miguel Almeida, who reached to systematize the movement’s
beginning in Piura, in a over-30-page essay, just in case somebody wishes to go
in-depth.
From the cover to the streaming
When the shocking 1980s
ended,the Piura-based bands left to play borrowed themes and they dedicated to
create their own ones. “Now,in 1990s, there is a milestone – for example, bands
what made their own music like Libre and Diáfano, and the 2K already came in
much later with bands like The Shokekoks, 1900,that are still struggling, and there were
more,” Facundo goes on.
That time, almost every
province’s capital city had, at least,one formation dedicated to the rock, like
The Sepultureros, in Ayabaca City, that started to play circa 1995. It
also started the division into sub-genres with so much diverse influences like
the ska or the punk. The to pogue verb (dancing collectively by a
friendly push) began to be part of the youth’s vocabulary of Piura.
Since 2010 up to now, there
are new bands and new challenges to compete in a world what seems to leave step
by step behind the classic media like the vinil (although it resists to
die), the compactcassette (that already have disappear almost at
all), the compact disc (that survives hard-working), and delivers up to
the casting at the virtual cloud through the streaming, migration accelerated after the Covid-19 pandemic
, that forced to close the
public places for one entire year.
Facundo himself had to go
through the FM-broadcasting until creating his own Facebook page, Facundo
Rock, that dedicates long
editions to present themes, groups, and analyzing the rock frame with
interactions inside and outside Peru, inclusive. Some users follow him from
furthest sites like Australia.
Self-managed movement
“Nowadays, the problem is
there’s no support by regional governments,”
the presenter criticizes. “There are places that are closed like Piura
Municipal Theater, Manuel Vegas Castillo Theater, also the Acoustic Shell (of
Miguel Cortés Children Park] that requires to fix for cultural & sports
events.”
After 55 years the first rock
band played in Piura, even the district’s capital cities have theaters or
stages especially built for shows. In
other words, there is much offer and the demand seems not to have decreased
despite the urban genre looks like to have drowned it worldwide.
“Mostly, who dedicate to make events or sessions are the
independent people who like the rock – the bands themselves also self-manage
but they are few,” Facundo explains.
The independent funding
model with private facilities is based
upon the owner gains from sales of food and drinks, the producer gains from
the box office. If the show is made for free and outdoors, like Facundo made in
Sullana, October 15th (to celebrate
the Facundo Rock’s 2nd
anniversary), the public support basically consists in allowing the use of the
place (in this case, the Convention Center’s amphitheater). The rest is gotten
through sponsorship.
What is clear, in fact, is
that amid this half-a-century of rock in Piura, the teenagers and youth of that
time are this generation’s grandparents. And, very despite the cultural,
technological evolution,they
have eased the seed follows growing, giving fruits.
The challenge for the rock in
Piura is understanding that, not quitting to be a relatively marked local place,
today has better chances than 55 years ago for becoming global. There’s talent
– let’s see how much it’s able to shine.
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?
For the people who follow the
FACTORTIERRA blog, must know we premiered an interesting story about
Huancabamba City. It’s located between two branches of the Andean Range, about
4 degrees south latitude. But it’s not an actual story. It’s a story that comes
from 1874. That year, the Italian scientist Antonio Raimondi published his
book about Peru. It was a very long-term play. Get the full story here.
Raimondi arrived into Peru in
1850. At least here, he’s considered as one of the most important promoters of
Natural Sciences in our country.
The story I produced has to do
about a geologic highlight. Huancabamba City is built over a fault. And its
effects can be seen up to today. As I tell in the story, the first time I
realized about the fault was in 2000. My friend Ciro La Madrid lived in the
first block of Huascar Street. It’s right one block away Huancabamba Main
Square.
The fault runs just in front
of his houses’s door. Ciro, his wife Sandra Guerrero, and his kids don’t live
right there anymore. However he was the person who confirmed on the field what
I had read in the books. Actually, Ciro was the first friend I made there.
As I also tell in the story,
the first time I traveled to Huancabamba was in November 1995. It was a 9-hour
journey that time. From this location, Huancabamba Main Square is 260
kilometers or 150 miles.
But I didn’t get there by
tourism. I went as a researcher. When I studied Radio at Piura University, our
professor assigned us to list all the radio stations as possible across Piura Department. My work
team had to research in Paita, Morropon, and Huancabamba Provinces.
We were Isela Arbulu, Susety
Suing, and Veronica Malca, if my memory is good.
Paita is a coastal province,
so the four went to it, we scanned the entire city. Morropon was our next
target, so the four could cover its capital city, Chulucanas. The problem was
Huancabamba.
The females didn’t want to
go. So,they assigned me to do it. While they were covering Chulucanas, I was
covering Huancabamba.
I knew that city as well as
nearby Sondor. I was 19 years old.
My first surprise was both
towns had short wave radio stations. In other episode, I’m gonna tell you about
the fascinant SW world. At the moment, I’ll just say that before Internet,
and amid the satellite era, there were radios broadcasting worldwide at low
cost.
For that time, I learned
about the Huancabamba Fault because the books I showed you the last episode. I
wanted to know where it was. It was one of my questions to my friend Ciro that
time.
He had no answer. Five years
later, the fault was right in front of the house he lived. His parents house,
by the way.
Since that time, I was
travelling recurrently to Huancabamba, whether tourism or to cover a story. So
I may say my connection with Huancabamba is so strong.
Curious fact: Sullana
Province was created in 1911 because the advocacy of a congressman named
Benjamin Huaman de los Heros. The issue here is Mr Huaman was not from Sullana
but Huancabamba. As you know sullana is the province where is Sullana, the city
from I webcast this to you.
Other geographic relevant. Chira
River has three main tributaries.
Catamayo from Ecuador,
Chipillico from sapillica, and Quiroz from Ayabaca and Huancabamba. Actually
its further nascent is Laguna Negra in el Carmen de la Frontera, part of
Huancabamba Province. And Chira River runs amid Sullana Province, my province.
So Sullana and Huancabamba
are pretty connected, anyway. If you want to explore all that connection, go to
factortierra.blogspot.com
Write Huancabamba Province in
the query box. You also can follow #ComeToHuancabamba on Twitter for more
information.
Just to close the Huancabamba
stuff, for the story you can find on FACTORTIERRA, there were many people
contributing. From Luis Correa, our co executive producer, to Arabella
Carrasco, who helped me with the photo production. Arabella is from
Huancabamba, actually. Also my friend Ciro is featured.
At least in Spanish,
according to LinkedIn, the story was read in Piura, Chiclayo, and Lima, here
in Peru. But also in Quito, Ecuador, and Barcelona, Spain. Thanks you all for
the preference.
But still in Spanish, Radio
Centinela transcript the text, share it on his Facebook page. I noticed
people gave likes and shared three times. I also shared it on my Facebook
account, @nelsonsullana. For the people who want to read the story in Spanish,
go to eltiempo.pe
Oh, thanks angelo Basselli, in
Lima City, who red the story and told me a beautiful related story. As he tell
me more, I promise I’ll tell you more.
Finally, two tips for you.
On Monday, September 19th,
La Palma Island is marking one year after a new volcano broke out at Cumbré
Vieja Ridge. I never was in Canary Islands but I cover the full crisis.
If you want to get the full
story, go to factortierra.blogspot.com. You can also follow @factortierra on
Twitter. I don’t know what the local people is going to do, but maybe I’ll
dedicate my full next episode to them. Let me know if you wish to.
And, from a volcanic land to
another volcanic land. Mario Kanashiro is in Nagoya, Japan. He’s a fitness
dance trainer. But he also is doing manga and animé as a hobby. We have the
story in exclusive. Go to chulucanasgym.blogspot.com
. Follow it on Twitter as @chulucanasgym. It’s the
top story right now.
Four million years ago, somewhere
in the universe which name I don’t know because they never said where, there
was a highly-technified planet called Cybertron that was populated by two
contending races of robots. They were called autobots and decepticons. Whom may
I compare them with? The truth is just saying the first ones were the good and
the others were sons of a high-tech bitch.
Their planet’s sources of energy
were already dying and they faced a microchips starvation that whether they solved
like homeless, whether taking their stuff and looking for somewhere in the
space where they could flourish and survive. With the few resources they got,
the autobots chose the B-plan. They lifted up their ship, them aboard.
The decepticons, that lived cloning
everything the autobots did, were in chase mode. When they reached, they badly
boarded the vehicle. Amid the struggle, they approached too much to Earth’s
gravity that the ships lost control and crashed down in different points of the
planet. The autobots one went to the base of a volcano called Saint Hilary,
actual Oregon. Don’t seek it on Wikipedia – it doesn’t exist.
In 1984, Saint Hilary awoke and
activated the circuits of the spacecraft turned into a fossile. A surveyor
scanned the planet, that was not that hostile world they have crashed down but
something primitively technified. To make you short the tale, the decepticons
and the autobots were repaired and both concentrated in accumulating energy to
return to Cybertron. The problem is while the second ones waited for their
turn, the first ones shot lasers to everything meaning an obstacle.
What’s the love for Tawantinsuyo?
Meanwhile, the decepticons
learned that in actual Peru, the Incas had a kind of energetic conduit that
allowed them to take advantage on the energy of Earth’s core, over what they
built a pyramid-shape temple, and the robots decided to catch the resource,
terrifying the surrounding locals, apparently Cusco-natives.
After saying all this, and
look that my merit is making a running-over brief of the first nine episodes of
Transformers 1st generation, I accredit that the beloved
robots-in-disguise already have visited us, at the moment of posting this, 37
years ago, and we watched it on TV around the globe.
Although the cartoon series producers
(with Marvel Productions and Sunbow Productions) don’t have any relation to the
ones who, up to date, are rolling a movie of that franchise (with ParamountPictures), what I feel coincidental is they have chosen Cusco. Yes, I
understand because of enigmas, untold stories (the cyberspace’s gossips say it
would be based upon Tonapa or Tonupa myth), the impressing Inca architecture,
and the beautiful landscapes of Urubamba River’s Sacred Valley.
It’s not the first time that
Hollywood put an eye to this place. Since 1954 (Paramount Pictures,
coincidentally) to nowadays, the trials between successful and frustrated (like
a james Bond movie), national and foreigner, are counting for almost a hundred.
Like ever never before in the
Peruvian history of the motion picture, two features from two American
corporations that are competitors have been rolling at the same time, in the
same place, and with big budgets.
The other one is the
successful NBCUniversal Telemundo’s series La Reina del Sur (Queen of
the South) that from a biographic novel became a fiction highlighting Mexicanactress Kate del Castillo, telling the adventures of drug-trafficker Teresa
Mendoza, who really exists, but amid a kind of enlarged parallel universe.
Peacock + Artesonraju = blockbuster
Don’t stop just on the
factsheet. Transformers – The rise of beasts and La Reina del Sur
were not only rolled in Cusco. The first one did in Tarapoto, San Martin, and it
was almost to implement a location in El Ñuro, right here in Los Organos,Piura. The second one,as much as we know, put upside down Lima Downtown.
But it wasn’t about the
producers arrived, set up their cameras, let the director screams action, and
what pretty actors and actresses perform. Only in Cusco, Paramount and
Telemundo left about US$ 37,000 for filming rights and the physical
installation of the places chosen as locations, what surely has activated the
local economy.
And that’s what we know about
Cusco. We don’t have yet the fact of how much Paramount left to Municipality of
San Martin Province or how much Telemundo left to Municipality of Metropolitan
Lima. It shouldn’t be a secret – it’s public information.
The cost and the benefit of
filming in Peru
Peru is not a common
destination for scouting film-&-TV locations but it doesn’t mean it doesn’t
have them. In fact, like anywhere in the worlc, my country has houses, estates,
streets, cities, and especially natural places you should consider as the
background of the shots (even for photography) if you are planning a feature
for international audiences.
Let’s review Peru’s potentials
for locations. Maybe, it’s the country with most diversity in a territory
similar in size to California State. We don’t have fiords and tepuys but the
amount of other imaginable landscapes is overwhelming. Highlands and the Amazon
Basin were also loved by Hollywood and Europe. And the coastal strip has a
complex landscape mixing desert and valleys to discover. Add the beaches.
Piura Department is quite bigger
than Maryland State, going from sea level(even under sea level) to some summit
over 12,800 feet altitude. If I’m not wrong in numbers, we join 70% of Peru’s
biodiversity, what also means a diversity of landscapes except snow-covered
mountains. Check this out.
Of course that if you are
interested in producing anything in Peru, you have to get some reliable
connections allowing to understand with local authorities, officials and
homeowners/real estate brokers in order to do a favorable negotiation once you
have scouted the possible locations. The good news for you is like Peru is an
almost rookie in locations management, the prices you can get here may result
most competitive like anywhere around the world, especially the destinations you
are accostummed to take for this purpose.
Add to this, that Piura in
particular has three schools of social communication and many undergraduates
and graduates are making motion pictures. Plus, there’s a school of fine arts
with hundreds of junior and senior plastic artists who can work with your art
director advising and making your sets.
For sure, there are other
people and companies those can supply different products and services, since
transportation to rights & clearances, so you also can find out great local
crews in constant training, some of them awarded nationwide and worldwide.
Even, some of them are bilingual.
About the places, major
cities have a mixed architetonical style, but médium and small ones own the
typical Latin American town skyline. But going out the cities, you can take
deserts, valleys, rivers, forested and non-forested hills, mountains close to
the sea, highlands, cliffs, archaeological rests, sea, islands. What are you
thinking of? Since 1956, Piura has been
considered by Hollywood for locations, for example Cabo Blanco Beach.
You can contact me for further
information at nelsonpc.com@gmail.com
(my personal e-mail), or chat on live with me on my Facebook and Twitter
accounts. And if you’re not looking for a location but you are interested in do
some tourism at an unusual destination, but plenty of Nature, you should checkthis out.
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