Married. Rosa Prado, 20, chic, Paris-born amateur flyer and horsewoman, only daughter of Peru's President Manuel Prado y Urgarteche; and Hugo Peter Parks, 24, tall, freckled, British-educated son of Peru's socialite Clubwoman Mercedes Gallagher Parks and U.S. Citizen Henry W. Parks; in Lima, Peru. Married. Signal Corps Sergeant Robert Hopkins, 23, thin-faced photographer son of Presidential Adviser Harry Hopkins ; and Brenda Stephenson, 18, daughter of a Lancashire engineer; in Perryvale, Middlesex, England. Married. Freeman Gosden, 45, philosophic, long-suffering "Amos" ...

Peru is a mining country. Mining accounts for far more than half of the country's exports; taxes paid by mining companies equal more than 10% of the government's annual budget. Peru is the world's top silver producer, second in copper and in the top six of a long list of other metals, including gold. So, when someone tinkers with mining — or even talks about tinkering with it — the country's economic drivers go haywire. President-elect Ollanta Humala, ...

Mark Villanella, born in New Jersey, cannot run for President in his adopted home of Peru, but he just might be the hottest property in the final weeks of Peru's hard-fought presidential campaign. Villanella, 35, is married to Peruvian Congresswoman Keiko Fujimori, who is ahead in the polls two weeks before the June 5 votes. With her lead at 3 to 5 points over the leftist Ollanta Humala in most surveys, Villanella's chances of becoming the first ...

While on the phone with his son 16 years ago, Pablo Escobar stayed on the line just long enough for Colombian police to trace the call. Minutes later, the world's most violent and notorious drug lord was gunned down on a Medelln rooftop. Fearing for their lives, Escobar's wife, son and daughter sought safety in exile, but most nations shut their doors. After stopovers in Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, South Africa and Mozambique — a whirlwind on par ...

Peruvians have gone mad for the boxer Kina Malpartida, an unlikely sports figure in this South American country where soccer, even if not played well, is king. You see, Malpartida is a woman but she is idolized by the traditionally macho men of Peru because there is no equivalent male athlete in the country. Malpartida, known as "Dynamite" to her fans, is the World Boxing Association's female super featherweight champion. On June 20, she successfully defended her world title ...