Tag: Basques in Peru
Interview with Jesús María Aristín, Bishop of Yurimaguas. The epic...
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A few weeks ago, we dedicated a detailed article to the amazing feats of the Basques in the...
An Euzko Etxea borne of the more than four centuries of...
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Few Basque institutions have survived and thrived over four centuries. In February of 2018, we wrote an article...
Paco Igartua—70 years of ‘Oiga’ magazine, the work of a very...
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On November 8,1948, the first issue of Oiga, founded by a Basque-Peruvian journalist, Francisco «Paco» Igartua Rovira (1923–2004), was...
“Aita”. Following in the footsteps of a ‘gudari’, from Lima to...
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A while back, we announced the debut of the documentary "Aita", which tells the story of a family,...
Arantzazu Euzko Etxea of Lima: Manifesto against the Valley of the...
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This is hardly the first time we've spoken about the work being done at the Arantzazu Euzko Etxea of...
Lehendakari Aguirre’s first tour of the Americas: 76 years of a...
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When Lehendakari Aguirre started his tour of Latin America in 1942, it was hard to imagine a worse...
The song by a Peruvian singer-songwriter that we recorded under the...
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We've had the chance to talk a lot lately about the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Aranzazu of Lima,...
Closing a nearly five-century old circle: a ‘novena’ of the Basques...
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A few days ago, we dedicated a longer article to the Brotherhood of the Virgen of Arantzazu of...
February 13: 406 years of the foundation of the Brotherhood of...
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Updated June 16, 2019: The Constitution of the Arantzazu Euzko Etxea of Lima (at the end of the...
Martín de Murua, the Basque who wrote about the Incas of...
![Tomado de la obra Códice Murúa: Historia y genealogía de los reyes incas del Perú del padre mercedario fray Martín de Murúa: códice Galvin (2004 [1590]). En el brazo del personaje se puede leer: "Vila Oma" y en la pierna del mismo: "El gran pontífice del Inga"; ambas inscripciones dan cuenta de la alta jerarquía del individuo, la cual se ve a su vez reforzada mediante el uso de la diadema en forma de media luna, el brazalete o chipana, bastón de mando y el adorno de barbilla.](https://aboutbasquecountry.eus/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/historia-general-del-piru-martin-de-murua-324x235.jpg "Martín de Murua, the Basque who wrote about the Incas of Peru in a 16th century illustrated story")
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Jorge Paredes Laos has just published an interesting article in the Peruvian daily El Comercio about the life...