National Coat of Peru - Recorded

To win a lawsuit you need to have a good cause and a great lawyer. In their arguments before the court in The Hague, Peru has both requirements.

The points to be defended are correct, almost obvious. As advocates, ours is one of the best Latin American diplomacy.

There is, however, a danger. The tabloids and some politicians are making the rounds. Instead of illustrating the country on the grounds of the allegation, the headlines are filled with a gloomy atmosphere of war.

According to the tabloid headlines, which are read by the people in the newspapers posted on the kiosk, whatever the decision, the tanks are crossing borders and planes, bombing cities. The panic selling.

Some housewives wonder if it is time to store food for the case of a shortage caused by the invasion.

Still a few months to issue the ruling. Nevertheless, this climate is reaching the climax.

There is a sociological concept that can help us understand the injustices that motivate and nurture climates like this. This is known as moral panic. It is defined as a condition, episode, person or group of people who are considered as a threat to social values ​​and interests and perhaps the very survival of the nation.

Handlers panic controls, lead the people to a mindset of disaster.

While panic increases there is a sense of urgency to do something now or else the company has to suffer serious consequences later. This sentiment is expressed in the tightening of social control devices will state and in a climate of suspicion in which all must prove that they are terrorists or unpatriotic.

The tension is evident in most illiterate expressions of chauvinism. For months now, for example, declared that a writer who did not like Peruvian food because it produced gases. This was about to unleash a lynch mob for allegedly being unpatriotic.

Indeed, the primary concern must be to free ourselves from the days when the dictatorship destroyed our social institutions. This is because, apart from that the reason is from you, in all judgment requires the plaintiff to be credible. What is Peru? ... S course!

Peru is a well-established democracy, and its last dictator is behind bars. He forgets, however, that besides tyrant and thief, the man is a terrorist criminal Barbadillo ordered state and justified genocide. You are not treated with the yardstick to be measured. Shining Path leader has been banned from the visit of a priest. However, Fujimori has accepted her petition for clemency and made to live in a five-star prison.

On the other hand, technically, this democracy does not have a constitution. He is still living under the federal government that gave the coup.

Finally, the Secretary General of the UN, Heraldo Munoz, the Peruvian government has recommended strengthening the internal dialogue. Instead of condemning social conflict and criminalize protest, advised "not view the conflict as something negative, but as an opportunity to address specific situations through dialogue and negotiation."

Instead of the disaster, should be encouraged to remember the greatness of Peru. She now must express the will to found a stable democracy. Only then, the country will win every day the verdict of history.

The Lloca 'l Rinconín - Malu Photo

They call it "The Crazy Rinconín". It is the saddest woman I've seen in my life. It stands on the beach of Gijon, Asturias, and look at the horizon. Try to locate there the memories of her son who was outside Spain long ago in search of better opportunities, or perhaps only a few illusions.

Two statues in the world perpetuate the history of migrants during the twentieth century. One is the Statue of Liberty in New York, according to the poem, offers shelter and dreams to those who have lost it all. Nowadays, with a wall on the border and racist laws in different states, these words appear to be being deleted.

The other is this of Asturias. In the Spanish language for that region, is called "Lloca" (crazy) to a sculpture placed in the Bay of Gijon in 1970 to symbolize the mothers waiting absent son.

The crazy is and is not. Although bronze body remains grounded in Spain, his soul and dreams roam foreign lands. Perhaps think about the two gold coins all his fortune-stitched in blue coat traveler, and knows that if one has difficulties with them perhaps the fix.

I remember crazy because I'm reading the news from Spain. According to them, the current population decline is the largest in forty years. By mid-century, so abysmal dwarf.

The primary cause of the reduction of births in the effective decrease of women of childbearing age, the crisis caused by birth the 80s and early 90s. However, it is clear that the brutal economic crisis is sending young people overseas.

Respond to this market paralysis in employment whose bleeding has not stopped.

Add the forecasts that the dependency ratio will rise to 58% in ten years and will reach to stand at 99.50%. Thus, in 2022 there will be ten people of working age for six partially inactive, ie less than 16 years or more than 64. The data is triggered in 2052 with a working-age person otherwise would not be.

The most pessimistic forecasts affecting Galicia, Castilla y León, Asturias, Basque Country, Aragon, Extremadura, Cantabria and La Rioja, where the number of deaths will soon overtake births.

I know Asturias and travel these days to Oviedo, your capital.He offered at their university classes in 2006 and 2008, and now I am invited to give a talk. In the ancient city, I met Woody Allen who is a citizen of honor and Prince of Asturias award. We were across the street from the National Militia which has a monument. I went to greet him. For his part, thinking I was going to ask for an autograph and to pretend modesty, he said: "Asturian, I'm asking. Fírmame here. " "Excuse me," I replied, "I can not sign that paper because my editor has forbidden me."

I remember this prophet of pessimism once said that "humanity is at a crossroads. One path leads to despair, the other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. "

And yet, we were in Oviedo. In its territory, three hundred crazy Asturian commanded by King Pelayo stopped to stone an army of thousands of Arabs who, as a result, could not reach the northern end of the peninsula. Thanks to them, at the Battle of Covadonga, Spain was saved and began the long task but triumphant Reconquista. Spain is not lost.

Dr. Eduardo Gonzalez Leon, my father

In my childhood home had a little sign hanging by my mother that said, "God, I hope that in this house do not enter doctors or lawyers."

Lawyers and law

However, a lawyer came and went every day from home. It was my father. In addition, lawyers mom had two brothers, and finally, many years later, I receive the title that I recommend defend "good causes" and so would my daughter at the time ANABELI. All of which shows the excellent sense of humor from my mother and provides evidence that family there are certain diseases.

As usual among lawyers, wrote poems during adolescence, and went with keen interest to criminal hearings and family law classes, but only to be inspired by them. Later hang on my doctorate in literature study with my little used professional title lawyer, but never forget certain legal concepts that have been central to my work as a writer and my claim to be a decent man.

This is due to the advice I gave my father when he noticed that my feet were on the wayward path of literature. "Clearly we're going to be a writer" - he said and added: "Therefore, it is necessary that you read love and attention the Civil Code. Look closely how it is written, there is no single adjective in its pages. Not a single word about ... and no missing. Only when you write well, you are really a writer. "

And that's what I tried to do a lifetime and it helps me to know if my prose is clean and if my text convicts, delights and inspires. Such is also the wood from which they are constructed litigant resources as they try to be effective and the mandates of the judge when they are complete, in both cases when the texts are written by appetite for justice and not for gluttony of words.

These days I travel to Spain invited by the faculties of Law, University of Oviedo Catalunya and to dictate some lectures on "Law and Literature". That is why these memories.

There's something my father said: "If you still want to be a lawyer too, study and learn well the notion of the act, and will be. By the way, that will help you know if you are a righteous man. "For the uninitiated, the words" legal act ", my father would say consensual relationships merit of which two or more parties agree to establish a contract, build a business, get married, rent a house, buy a good or provide a service, that is for men to do the daily miracle of building a society and live in harmony.

Four are its elements: legal subject, object possible, lawful purpose and observance of the form prescribed by law, and although this post is not intended as legal article, I think all of them are synthesized in the respect for the will of the parties that is the expression of the first well

of life, liberty, and her freedom, is what brings us together tirelessly and makes us more human and better members of a world in which our mission is to act with love and create a truly just society.

Soon I have exercised the legal profession, but all the time I return to the legal principles that make me know that my actions are right, and I always try to write as I learned in the Civil Code, and for all that, back to my memory the image of my father up from the lunch table to serve a customer. "Excuse me, I said to my mother, but you understand that a lawyer is like a priest, and to bring peace to those in need."

In Roman mythology, it is assumed the existence of Lethes, the river of forgetfulness. Those who pass through, lose memory.

While campaigning in Spain, the Romans identified with the river Lima. Thus, during the war, the soldiers refused to cross. Fortunately, and to cope with the terror of his subordinates, the centurion Decimus Junius Brutus went to swim to the other shore, and from there began calling the soldiers, one by one, by name.

Two political events could cause us to assume that the Peruvians have lost his memory, and nothing can get rid of the incurable amnesia.

They are: first, the news that the Presidential Pardons Commission of the Ministry of Justice has admitted pardon the solution presented by the children of Alberto Fujimori in favor of the former dictator. In virtue of his next release, have already appeared in Lima posters with the face of the defendant and the slogan "Fujimori, President 2016."

The other manifestation of amnesia are the governmental and legislative hustle to pass a "Law of denial." Redundant with the rule prohibiting the advocacy of terrorism, this law is designed supposedly to censor and condemn any oral or written expression that justifies the actions of the rebels.

The law of denial that is cooked now merely repeats the above provision for allowance Fujimori. The rich. Now also will be punished "belittle, harass or offend seriously a social group." These subjective assumptions serve to prevent any reference to the tens of thousands of victims who suffered torture and death by state agents without being involved at all with subversive activity.

The law will serve to justify denial "tough and strong government." That is, to organize legally censorship.

The works of César Vallejo, Ciro Alegría, José María Arguedas, Alejandro Romualdo and even our Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa could be "carefully analyzed" to maul or prevent editing of all that "seriously offend a social group. "Journalists have to fear the reaction of the reading sensor behind your shoulders, or the sergeant who examine very closely the possible offenses.

The two political events, the release of Fujimori and the law of denial are based on an assumption: that we have forgotten all the blood shed in the Andes in a hideous and dirty ethnic war whose victims were mostly those who could not defend themselves, the elderly , women, men and children of the mountain villages.

As I said prosecutor Avelino Guillén: "In parallel, simultaneous, there was a clandestine strategy, it was a dirty war, which involved the killing of suspected subversives elimination. The executors of that dirty war, all have recognized that they were a group of annihilation of execution. They were located, captured and eliminated. They never had one arrest. "

Victims are nameless. We must put them face.

I hasten to mention the Spanish poet Rafael Alberti, before reading will be forbidden in Peru: "If the death sentences. If you kill them, they shall be the six nails in your box. Die or not you're already dead, dead and, at the top of your box are six nails ".

When memory is lost is lost the future. No imprisonment. Not to denial. Do not cross the river of forgetfulness.

Uncle Sam

As you read is note, Lupita, Francisco, Venustiano, Roberto, Juan, Carmen, Benedict, Pancho, George and Theodore among other young people will be turning 18 years old in the United States.

Raul Well, Elqui Rosendo Burgos, Isaac Bay, Eduardo Martín González, Andrea Yannuzzi, Maria Elena Miranda, Tania de Souza also among the 50 000 young Latinos who this month will age to vote ...! Congratulations! Next year will be 60 000.

They do vote.

The average age of the American voter is a little over 55 years. Among Latinos, more than 90 percent goes to the polls.

Statistics show that Hispanic voters have given the victory to President Obama. If further 50 000 people are added each month to the quota, from now any leader or party that wants to succeed in the elections will have to enroll in a Spanish class.

In February this year, the cover of a copy of the magazine "Time" showed dozens of photos of Hispanic immigrants with a headline that read "I decide". I guess the next owner will be "I decided".

The Americans do not know how heterogeneous are ... and not know it. In the teaching of Spanish books, the illustrations show brown dolls if they are men with mustaches and tight clothing if they are ladies. They can not imagine otherwise, but no matter. In the elections of 2012, Latinos voted as a pan-ethnic entity.

In all states, there was that ... Also, in Florida ... there always supposed Cuban population will cast their ballots for the Republican right. It was ever thus, but Bay of Pigs veterans and seniors passed. His children and grandchildren have not inherited the old grudges and instead, crave a normalization of relations with Cuba.

Latinos voted for Obama even though the president did his best to dissuade. In 2008 there was talk of "Obama's promise", but the man in the White House failed all his offerings.

The "promise" included a law immigration reform in the first year of government. Not so.

By contrast, President Obama used his executive powers to increase the deportations and make impregnable wall borders and lethal. The mass deportations had a devastating effect on the lives of Hispanic families. Thousands were separated forever from their loved ones and many other American cities transited terrified of that possibility.

This government has been more dangerous for that Latino immigrants from Mr. Bush.

Democratic leader showed tough to please their voters 'whites' who walk intimidated by the growing Hispanic influence in the country. However, the so-called "white"-those who voted for Obama in 2008 - were the first to turn his back on the elections of last Tuesday.

While the president and Democratic governors offered important positions in the administration Hispanic ladies and gentlemen, denied driver's license several million of them ... and without that card can not go out very quiet in this country.

Why does the president will not act the same way now? ... Because every month there is 50 000 new Latino voters. In my college classes, for every 25 students, one or two vote if they are gringos. All Latino students, however, they did this time, and voted for Obama. They are the ones who decide.

American Flags

Every time I turn on the TV, you see the face of a pathetic old man who advises Americans vote for Romney to avoid the arrival of communism.

The gentleman says he is an immigrant who fled communist Hungary. While talking, alternating black and white photographs of people ragged and pose behind him emaciated and starving faces.

"Communism makes the poor poorer," says the character, adding that many in America have forgotten that lesson. Supposedly, he remembers, and that's going to vote for Romney.

What is this warning? Are supporters of the sickle and hammer Obama and the Democrats?

No, no, not the old Hungarian is completely crazy. It happens that the government of Mr. Obama has been characterized by a courageous struggle for everyone in this country have access to health insurance. United States is one of the few countries in the world that does not.

When he reached the White House's current president, over half of Americans were excluded from this benefit.

At any latitude, the health care bill would have been considered laudable and necessary. Here, the Republican Party extremists who now seek power, called it a perverse as communist.

Amid the debate, heartbreaking stories became public able to test the compassion of harder, less of the "Christians" of the Tea Party.

Fred Holliday had 39 on June 17, 2009 when he died, just when the debate on Capitol Hill of the proposed health reform. I was not sure ... he began to suffer strange discomfort including night sweats, chronic fatigue and bloody urine. It went to the doctor because it was very expensive. When he finally found a job that covered him, they discovered that she had kidney cancer. And that this was already incurable.

In another city, a young cancer patient delayed for months not just the start of treatment but the news to her parents because she feared cure costs forced them to mortgage the house. And it was. When sold and literally, "were left in the street," there was no hope for the girl.

According to the rules, companies were not required to pay for pre-existing illnesses the insurance. Therefore, Obama's mother was diagnosed with cancer - had died fighting because a company will pay the bills and keep their kids stay in ruins.

"I do not suffer from any terminal illness. Do I have to pay the monthly insurance for my money going to pay the hospital a stranger. "-I said the worker was carrying a refrigerator to replace mine.

Was he influenced by the supposedly "Christian" Republicans campaign for whom any caring attitude is communism. Hungarian The old man, who is an entrepreneur, harasses us with their ads on them televised and spends several million a day. If we multiply throughout the months of campaigning, we can calculate that this money could have paid the fees of its employees for over 10 years.

If Romney gets to the White House, disable everything that made its predecessor to convert the United States into a more human. Charity-called social inclusion in some countries is humiliating because it is exercised vertically from above insurance Solidarity is horizontal and involves mutual respect. This contrast is at stake in the nation that leads the world's destiny. The triumph of selfishness, all that is human will to spare.

"Sorry for what I did not do and what I could not help" - says Alberto Fujimori in a post that has been widely circulated on television. The phrase appears on a self-portrait showing him in front of a landscape of the Sierra del Peru.

The blood shed

This is an obvious allusion to the killings that took place in this region during the time of the dirty war. To end terrorism, the then government imposed another. The Central Sierra was only its epicenter. In Lima and the rest of the country, there was torture, detentions and disappearances. At the headquarters of Ayacucho, still have not finished exhume victims buried there. Tens of thousands of Peruvians paid with his life the fact be neither on the side of the rebellion against the state or on the side of state terrorism.

We would like to believe that this is a criticism. However, as always, the dictator cheats. "... So I could not help" clearly refers to crimes against humanity. The phrase Fujimori transforms an honest man who could not avoid the excesses of the executors. Again, the defendant lays all the blame on the military.

Fujimori seems to Pantaleon, the tragicomic character of Mario Vargas Llosa. In the novel, Captain Pantoja an honest and sober-parent give the order to form a prostitution service (visiting) to meet the sexual needs of the troops stationed in the Amazon. Although it goes against all their moral and can cause the destruction of his family, the officer entrusted follows orders.

However, when the country's press service brothel discovers walking and condemned as incompatible with moral army Pantoja's superiors who gave the order-point to this as the only responsible and subjected to a military tribunal .

It is a message, Fujimori wants to pretend they were other, not him, the real culprits. He just would have been a naive little Japanese who had no art or part in the massacres of the hills and other criminals pardoned him. The dozens of suitcases that were with him during his shameful flight not filled him was another speaking. The 15 million who wanted to silence his accomplice Montesinos left pocket. Supposedly they were in the intelligence service, and were his ministers who disposed of that money.

Influenced by the ethical standards of the institution and its own conscience, Captain Pantaleon Pantoja keep silent rather than throw mud on the Army. Fujimori will say "could not help".

The dirty war that led Fujimori followed to the letter the dictates of a manual that has been applied in various countries. She implies as noted by them: generating fear, terror, panic, disorganization, doubt civilians, acts of extreme cruelty, committing massacres, genocide, crimes against humanity, spreading lies, disappearances, torture, violations, arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial executions, political prisoners, population displacement, espionage, persecution, destruction of social leaders, murder of journalists and human rights defenders, among others.

In all this there was in Peru. Fujimori was the head of state terrorism must not forget or deny. In his home country, the perpetrators of a crime are harakiri to preserve the honor of their descendants. In Peru, Fujimori uses a fan to spread mud and shame on those who were close to him.

On the other hand, their descendants have taken pictures before shower and breakfast for display and arouse pity. Besides, they use tactics that one day are prayer and other days of threat. The latest campaign tactics is this grotesque self-portrait.

I do not understand how to advertise persecutions against convicted of terrorism, including against those already served their sentences, and yet accepted that terrorist apologists Fujimori form a party and extol their bloody methods. Pardon will accept state terrorism and its thousands of dead were just too much ... and that Fujimori tried to avoid.

The defendant advertisers mourners have become peddlers, but sometimes betrays message as in this case, "so I could not avoid." Fujimori pardon means accepting the mud now wants to take over the armed forces. It will be a decision for review history.

Don Quixote

The first few times I read "Don Quixote" I had 13, 15, 17, 19 and 24, and I could never understand that loss because he was convinced that they were eternal and invincible heroes.

A few years ago, one afternoon in Barcelona, ​​I walked down the hill of Montjuic and remembered that there, on the beach that surrounds it, fought Don Quixote and the Knight of the White Moon. Cervantes's book informs us that there was vanquished good man who embodied the noblest principles, fair and free of the human condition streaky.

The first few times I read "Don Quixote" I had 13, 15, 17, 19 and 24, and I could never understand that loss because he was convinced that they were eternal and invincible heroes.

Many years after his last battle occurred in October 1965, Luis Felipe de la Puente Uceda has no death certificate or be-pultura known. Nor is there a military party official realizes feat of arms. And finally, there was no one among his fellow-prisoner injured or he could tell the true story of Mesa Pelada.

In view of this, only two roads who reflect today on the subject. The first is to forget that there was one last battle, and assume the reasoning whereby mythical heroes never die.

Under the legend, that farmers have been narrating, Lucho will become, with the passage of time, on a hill with a soul or a star that shines for his people even in the darkest times.

The other way to look at this issue is to infer that the battle of gue-Herrero From the Bridge is not over yet. This means that now, like yesterday or worse, is still practiced in Peru a society based on discrimination, with an economy whose first dimension is hunger.

A little before launching the armed struggle, the leader of the Revolutionary Left Movement convened at Plaza San Martin to a meeting in which would explain the reasons for his decision, while flame-ba to merge into a unit popular to all people and parties that aspire to socialist change in Peru.

I remember the then President Fernando Belaunde Terry, had promised before the elections in ninety days to resolve the problem of La Brea and Pariñas (illegitimate exploitation of our oil by a transnational corporation). Nine days later, the tenant of the Government Palace was uncomfortable do you remember that promise.

It was also at that time in the morning we woke up and listened, clandestinely, Havana Radio transmissions. This was also prohibited. They were outlawed hope and utopia.

Bridge Lucho failed the unit form the left to which he had aspired. You have to understand the reluctance of Lima revolutionaries who listened in Plaza San Martín to this strange provincial or non-municipal or provincial Frecia but put on the front line.

A Lucho, the gossips "leftist" accused him of being married religiously and communion on Sundays. And I think the gossips told the truth. But neither the one nor the other will be the most consistent prevented insurrection against the established order had been given before.

As the romantic heroes of APRA's 32, De la Puente and the MIR did not stand against a regime but against a system. That's the uniqueness of their uprising like his life so far. They followed spontaneous groups of students and peasants, artisans and professionals, Christians and agnostics, former Marxist APRA and new. Perhaps in the city lacked the organization and support. Perhaps overran the courage and love.

I think back to the defeat-ing of Don Quixote, and I realize I was wrong. Heroes can die and be mocked and beaten many times. What never dies are the principles that make man to himself and dignify the human condition. "For Freedom and for honor, one can and should risk life," said the illustrious up on Montjuic.

And what did the bridge by the aspirations of freedom and justice one day have to be finally complete truth. And I believe it will for Lucho's battle is not over. Plus he is not dead, its flag and our heart is whole has not given up.

"Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." Matthew 26:34.

This prophecy of Jesus has to do with something that can be very dangerous and defining the current Peruvian history.

The government has sent to Congress called denial law, a provision should serve to punish with imprisonment those who deny or claiming the terrorist nature of the groups that took up arms in past decades.

In alleged defense of democracy, the provision omitted, and thus justified state terrorism, a form of brutal rule, massive, totalitarian and bloody which is not exactly democratic. With their blatant silence, the "law of denial" claims or pretends to be justifiable and understandable excesses-and perhaps repeatable-a state of siege and peace of cemeteries that occur when a dictatorship gives carte blanche to the military so that they occupy the country ... or to impersonate another terrorism.

Forget for a moment the figures of the dirty war. Instead of tens of thousands of Peruvians who were its victims, consider frightened eyes, torn clothes, shoes or bare feet of children who run away with or without their parents from a burning village and who have witnessed the rape of their mothers and sisters, the beheading of his parents, his brothers prison and endless pursuit whose reasons do not understand.

The dirty war is a war of extermination ... and those who have suffered in Peru were marked by ethnic, and had so much guilt or involvement in the conflict as they had the unfortunate Jews from the Holocaust.

The elections last year, the Peruvian people rejected the option of crime as embodied in the application system Fujimori, dismissed any justification of genocide and repudiated the image of a president walking dead trampling. Most Peruvians voted not necessarily left or right. Voted for peace.

However, some evidence suggests that the silence of the rule is not a mere outburst but a trend in government. For example, it is notable that it is disdain with the findings of the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation well as evidenced a contrary position against victims in cases concerning human rights.

As noted in the recently ceased transnational Attorney Luis Alberto Salgado, there are approximately 23 judgments issued by the Court in San José declaring Peruvian State's international responsibility, and this is the most appropriate individual to a State.

Why the Peruvian state had to assume as his own crimes that were committed by the regime of Alberto Fujimori? And if there were crimes, why remains in jail this supposed champion of democracy? What this government has reason to question-as some dictators international law institutions whose existence is a triumph of civilized mankind?

And beyond that, to use a new verb imposed by the government, what will happen if this law of denial "goes"? ... If that happens, will be left to the executive to decide what text or word or claims allegedly justifies terrorism the rebels. Not only shall be punished as you type or proclaim from now on, but also what to read or recite the past.

For example, the "Tupac Amaru Choral" by Alejandro Romualdo could be banned and dismissed teachers suggest reading that poet. The same fate would be at, among others, "The world is wide and strange" Ciro Alegría, "Men and bars" of Juan Seoane "," The Sixth "of José María Arguedas" "Tungsten" by Cesar Vallejo. And of course if the law "is" would go to the stake, or the perpetrators to prison, all the books that have been written or will write about the dirty war without taking dictation version of its perpetrators. I know I'm missing many books, but to mention fiscal future will remember if the denial "goes".

No vote for state terrorism embodied in Ms. Fujimori. We voted for a democratic option and civilized living. However, before the rooster crows, democracy and humanity itself have been denied more than three times.

To Walter Navarro, doctor burned

Yesterday at noon, close to Children's Hospital of Lima, at a clinic in San Borja and do not remember what street in Miraflores, I decided to ask several people:

- Do you know how to get to the street Rosa Guerzoni?

Shriner Movement

Nobody could give me an answer, of course. Of course, because the street does not exist, but there should be, and I'm sad because no one told me he knew the name, but not the street. All areas of life and culture and the life of a country have heroes, but not usually remember the name of the heroine, and I want to evoke the name and the hands of a Peruvian medicine heroine, Rosa Guerzoni.

Incidentally in Peru, a friend told me about it and its history, but no one else had only vague references in this contemporary yours that live in these days, would be fulfilling sixty years.

I told a witness and protagonist of the story, Ricardo Noriega Salaverry, whom I united by a fraternal friendship. In the '80s, Ricardo started and led the Movement Shriner of Peru, a subsidiary of the largest philanthropic organization in the world, whose purpose is to rescue people, especially children, who have suffered burns, or physical defects . Needless to say that the Shriners services are entirely free.

For years, the movement has been sending hundreds of patients in emergency from Peru to hospitals in the United States where the organization has its center, but one day, it occurred Salaverry Noriega also could send national doctors specialize there and contacted Dr. Augusto Bazan Altuna, then Chief of the Children's Hospital Burn.

-Thanks for the invitation, 'said Dr. Bazan-but I'm too old. I recommend more to who was my best student in San Fernando, Rosa Guerzoni Chambergo.

Here begins the story of Rosa. Specializing in the Galveston Hospital of Dallas, Texas, immediately returned to his homeland, and began a tireless and endless activity. In the hospitals, the clinics of remote villages, a fire emergency the immediately summoned, and his arrival was awaited as the arrival of an angel whose hands would the miracle of saving life, restore health and bring joy back hundreds of children in danger of death.

In Peru, as in many countries in the area such emergencies occur most often in the poorest households and needy. When both parents go to work, children a few years trying to manipulate a gas stove or kerosene, and an accident either reaches the ceiling or walls of flammable material, then, misfortune and death enter the house.

If I wanted to get rich, Rosa could have made a slight change of course. In the hospitals of the state, the doctors "earn" very modest salaries. To make your budget, are forced to give service private practice in the hours after his hospital work. However, burnt serving not have that possibility because patients are mostly people who could not pay for a consultation whenever their poverty cute destitute.

With the skillful hands and faces skins being returned, Dr., born July 7, 1952 - could have gone to the field of plastic surgery that gives private practice significantly higher economic returns. But Rosita never thought of that, and always believed that his hands belonged to the poor. Furthermore, while the performing, writing to newspapers and is currently campaigning for Organ Donation Act that did not exist in their homeland.

And here comes the story and paradox. The January 19, 1997, just when there is such a law, Rosita, who is caring for their patients in Pucallpa, barely have time to take their meals at a makeshift tent. There a child manipulates the gas canister and an accident occurs. Rosa, a nurse and the child flying through the air.

A set of doctors, led by David Herndon, chief physician Shriner Hospital of Dallas flying to Peru to his aid, but the procedures and more sophisticated medical techniques in the world can face misfortune. Dr. lasting nine days, and after that will I Salaverry Noriega, wearing the helmet of an astronaut to be safe, it does hear the last words:

-Dr. Noriega. Only do I save the hands. There are still many children that I have to heal.

It's a beautiful and sad story, but has no end. I'm dying to know what will happen when I return to Peru in about a year or two. What do you answer when asked: Where is the street, the park or the hospital "Rosa Guerzoni"?