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February 20 
Peru montage (Feb. 21, 23, 28, Mar. 1)
Tribute to Bishop Romero (San Salvador airport; Feb. 19)
Ventanilla at night from air (Feb. 19)
Ventanilla Humedales (wetlands) lagoon (Feb. 20)
Ventanilla seaside lagoon, gate beach
Ventanilla Elektra store
Ventanilla Plaza Vea store at night
Ciudad Deporte at night
The plaque reads:
"Before all citizens of the world, men and women, I leave as testimony this commemorative mural of the 30th anniversary of the martyrdom of Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero, spiritual guide of the nation.
Mauricio Funes, President of the Republic of El Salvador. March 10, 2010.
Note that the same isolated protrusion of lights is visible (from opposite directions) in both the aerial photo and the photo taken from Ciudad Deporte. It is the "Costa Azul" beach resort complex.
February 21 February 23 February 25 That factory was the center of a big controversy in 2003-2004, when I was visiting Peru. It was closed down after a bribery scandal involving the Chilean-owned Luchetti Company. The original permission to build on ecologically-sensitive land should have been denied. On the left is a group of visitors and a sign identifying birds.
The gated, middle-class "Honor y Lealtad" (Honor and Loyalty) neighborhood was established in the late 1990s primarily for retired police officers.
In the Feb. 23 park photo, note the wall at the top of the ridge in back (left side), and compare it to the photo of the nearby shacks taken on Feb. 26.
This part of the Rio Rimac is about five miles downstream from the city center, behind the Palacio del Gobierno, where the river was (at that time) a "raging torrent." It dwindles to a relative trickle by the time the water reaches the sea, almost four miles from here.
February 27 The long-delayed Lima Metro system, begun during the first administration of Pres. Alan Garcia (1985-1990), finally opened in 2011, near the end of Garcia's second term. Line One extends for 14 miles from Villa El Salvador in south Lima to San Juan de Lurigancho on the north side. It is the longest elevated transportation structure in the world, and is designed to withstand an 8.0-magnitude earthquake. The Avenida Aviacion station is located at a traffic circle on the west edge of the district of Surco. Note Gold's Gym on the left.
The "Casa del Pueblo" (House of the People) is the historic headquarters of APRA, the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, west of downtown Lima. Note the red star party logo at the top. A banner on the right side shows former Pres. Alan Garcia, obscured by a light post.
A photo of a statue of the party founder Victor Raul Haya de la Torre can be seen in the Feb. 23 batch above.
February 28 I took a tour of the Legislative Palace, including the floor of the Peruvian Congress, which has been unicameral since the current constitution was adopted in 1994. The chambers formerly used for the now-extinct Senate now serve primarily for meetings and ceremonies. The four women shown here were the first female legislators in Peru, after women received the right to vote in 1956.
The Mario Vargas Llosa Biblioteca (Library) is located on the bottom floor of the historic Estacion Desamparados, the former passenger rail terminal in Lima. Vargas Llosa is a prolific and world-renowned author who ran unsuccessfully for president (as a convert to conservatism) in 1990. I have some of the books in this display.
Keiko Fujimori (pictured on the right), the daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori (who served 1990-2001), has run for president on behalf of the party created by her father, but has run afoul of the law, being prosecuted for corruption, etc.