Tag: basques in peru
120 years of the birth of Martín Elorza, a key figure...
A few months ago, we brought you a blog entry on the epic work of the Basque Passionists in the Peruvian Amazon jungle, heroic...
A response from Peru to the libel against the Day of...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
On September 16, the Spanish dialy El Español published an article by Pedro José Chacón Delgado, professor of History of...
Interview with Jesús María Aristín, Bishop of Yurimaguas. The epic...
A few weeks ago, we dedicated a detailed article to the amazing feats of the Basques in the Peruvian Amazonia. It was not a...
Lima, August 30: a date that recalls the resilience of the...
This year, at the end of August, we'd like to state for the record what happened on August 30, 1866, which was a clear...
Passionists in Peru: more than 100 epic years in Amazonia
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
It's hard for us to talk about the Passionist Fathers without being overwhelmed by a mixture of feelings:...
An Euzko Etxea borne of the more than four centuries of...
Update: Limako Arantzazu Euzko Etxea has been recognized as a Basque Center by the Basque Government
Few Basque institutions have survived and thrived over four...
Paco Igartua—70 years of ‘Oiga’ magazine, the work of a very...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
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...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
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...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
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...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
When Lehendakari Aguirre started his tour of Latin America in 1942, it was hard to imagine a worse...