Category Archives: Commentary On La Oroya, Peru

Finding The Light In The Night

By Jay L.T. Breakstone The church in Huancayo, Peru was dark.  It had been a quiet day.  The Archbishop had been out in the countryside, in the village of La Oroya with the American lawyers.  There was much trouble in …

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Walking the Walk with the Man of God

By Jay L. T. Breakstone As I wait to hear that our team of lawyers in La Oroya are safely out of the Andes and sitting comfortably in Lima, I’m reviewing some of the hourly emails and Blackberry messages that …

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Fear and Loathing in Peru

By Jay L. T. Breakstone While most people think of a lawyer’s day as being spent in nothing more dangerous than an over-stuffed office chair, sometimes defending the rights of clients can put a lawyer in harm’s way. I’ve just …

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American Boy Scouts

By Jay L. T. Breakstone Americans, as a people, are very innocent. After all, we’re really like children on the world scene. We’ve only been around since 1776, while most of the rest of the world has cultures that are …

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