Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer From the middle of 2019 up till now, people all over the world have risen up to protest abuses of power by the heads of state and the legislative bodies of their countries. This abuse of power usually manifests itself as police violence and brutality against citizens who are fighting for their […]
Christopher Ramirez / Staff Writer In the cloudy mountains of Peru, a new frog species known as Harlequin frogs, was discovered by an FIU professor, amid a fight to keep the species from becoming extinct. Alessandro M. Catenazzi, assistant professor for the Biological Sciences department, was part of the team of scientists who found and […]
Hayley Serpa/Contributing Writer 1991 saw the beginnings of a time of sudden change for my country of Peru. Our most infamous president, Alberto Fujimori, had been elected a year prior. Fujimori had just instituted a series of economic reforms popularly known as “Fujishock” and was still actively embroiled in conflict with the “terrucos” (Quechuan word […]
Carla Salazar and Frank Bajak/ AP Staff After becoming the first woman ever elected to run Peru’s capital, Susana Villaran did what no modern predecessor had dared: She tried to bring order and transparency to a metropolis plagued by widespread corruption and a chaotic, patronage-thick transit system swollen with aging, smog-belching taxis and buses. The […]
