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Interview with Jesús María Aristín, Bishop of Yurimaguas. The epic...

106 años de presencia de Pasionistas vascos en la Amazonía peruana
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...

Recipiente para los Santos Óleos. Hermandad de Nuestra Señora de Aranzatzu de Lima Siglo XVII. Una de las pocas propiedades que no fueron expropiadas
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

12 pasionistas vascos en la selva del Perú. 1913
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...

Francisco "Paco" Igartua
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...

José y Chema Salcedo
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...

El Lehendakari Aguirre
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...

The song by a Peruvian singer-songwriter that we recorded under the...

"el Árbol" de Lino Bolaños Baldassari grabada bajo el Árbol de Gernika
This article was translated by John R. Bopp 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...

Virgen de Arantzazu
This article was translated by John R. Bopp A few days ago, we dedicated a longer article to the Brotherhood of the Virgen of Arantzazu of...