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I  started reading "El Poder Invisible" written by Alfonso Baella Tuesta. A good way to go back to what I never paid attention to during my life in my home country. As a child/teenager from an upper middle class, I never felt much change during the military government in Peru. Oh! Actually, yes I did! What bothered me the most (as I was a child, around 9) was that especially during Christmas time we were used to going to Sears to look and try the toys that they would sell there. I remember there was a huge table with all kinds of toys which you could see and play with so you would know what you wanted Santa to give you. After the coup, the new President General Velasco, got rid of all foreign companies, so with that all the nice stores as well. Anyway, I was so young that I only remember that just when my youngest sister was born, we saw in the news that the President Fernando Belaunde was practically in pajamas when he was taken from the presidential palace to the airp...