Fake news, false claims of fraud, sky-rocketing tension, street demonstrations, and some humor. Here’s the ICYMI article on the elections between Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Castillo. Peru will not have a definite winner until at least Thursday. — At 7 a.m. on Sunday, June 6, about 20-something million Peruvians started arriving to different voting centers to elect their new president for the next five years. This was the runoff of an election that started on Apr. …

Many are puzzled by the opposition of some Americans to wear a face mask in this pandemic. Looking at the past, this opposition to “do what you are told” is not that unprecedented. — It is 2020 and some social norms are widely accepted and encouraged to become habits. You get into your car and fasten your seat belt. You don’t smoke indoors or, at best, you don’t smoke at all. Anyone opposing these rules could come across as reckless, unconsidered and tends to…

A personal archive of a global pandemic that still feels like a nightmare. These are some scenes of the Big Apple juxtaposed with pre-pandemic times, a contrast we might never see again. — Around the end of May, I couldn’t take it anymore. Before the world fell apart, it was still March, and I was into my sixth month of living in Washington, D.C. Everything was new and exciting. I moved there after spending a year of grad school + internship in New…

The COVID-19 catastrophe has brought out the worst in many of us, so I tried to look for hope. I found it in women leaders saying what we needed to hear. And maybe you need to hear it too. — As I start writing this post, I try to recall the exact day when I told my mom, who lives many miles away from the United States, in Peru, that “everything is going to be fine. We barely have cases here…” But I can’t tell. It feels like half a…

After a year living in the city of the many nicknames, I give it a try at picking the good, the bad and the ugly tourists won’t tell you. — You either love it or hate it. You either dream of coming here or you don’t. Welcome to New York City. We also call it Gotham, the City that Never Sleeps, the Big Apple… What a time to be alive, huh? I arrived in the city of the many nicknames…

Venezuela now has an interim president. But Nicolas Maduro is still president. How does that work? Why is this happening precisely on January 23rd? What’s going to happen now? — Venezuela is back on the headlines of pretty much all media, but not for the news we’ve gotten used to see for the last FIVE years: outrageous poverty, a collapsed healthcare system, violence, and the Venezuelan exodus… What we call the destruction of any bearable living conditions for 32 million…

Why would you want to see a bunch of giant balloons when it’s -6°C outside? It’s the silent struggle of the newcomer in New York who wants to see it all. — From the diaries of #LivingInNYC and #studentlife on my IG: When you are not from the U.S., the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade is one of those events you have probably only seen on TV or movies. …

Jeffrey Skilling was back in the news to wrap up August’s headlines in the US. Before we get too deep into September, let’s remember some other #mustknow fraud cases that you, my journalist friend, would have not easily dear to uncover. — This post is inspired by my first-ever accounting lecture in English. I’ve taken some accounting courses before in Spanish, but this was different: no class I’ve taken before ever mentioned so many real-life cases that made you think, hey, accounting is not as boring as you think: some very smart…