YOU ARE TOO FAR

I attended Colorado State University at the height of the 60s' student unrest, from September 1968 to April 1970.

One day I went to the Lory Student Center to a political gathering of international graduate students. My interest was to see just what was going on.

I got there early and sat in the back of the room. As I was beginning to relax, a student from an African country suddenly approached me in a direct and unfriendly manner, and said: "Where are you from?"

I said: "I am from Peru."

He said: "Oh, we are friends... you are too far."

It was then that I began to realize that politics and geography can make strange bedfellows.

 

The Andes' majestic White Range, in Ancash, Peru.