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In this Aug. 3, 2019 photo, Thiagus Petrus, a member of the Brazilian handball team poses for photos while he takes a break from eating ceviche at the international center outside the Pan American athletes' village in Lima, Peru. Peruvian food was the star at the recent Pan Am Games. Athletes from 41 countries across the Americas tasted the highly-regarded cuisine that blends indigenous traditions with European, African and Asian influences with an abundance of seafood from the Pacific Ocean’s cold Humboldt current. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

Peruvian cuisine: the beloved star at Lima’s Pan Am Games

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO - Associated Press

Dancers perform during the closing ceremony of the Pan American Games at the National stadium in Lima, Peru, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peru party: closing ceremony caps Lima Pan American Games

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO - Associated Press

United States' Jace Pardon, right, and Karissa Cook celebrate after beating Argentina's Ana Gallay and Fernanda Pereyra to win the gold medal for the women's beach volleyball at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, July 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Cook, Pardon of US win beach volleyball gold at Pan Am Games

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO - Associated Press

A surfer slides off a dying wave as he surfs in front of the BUP Union naval teaching ship, which was carrying the Pan Am Games torch, off the coast of Lima, Peru, Friday, July 26, 2019. In the Peruvian capital, where dozens of schools teach locals and tourists from around the world how to ride the waves at beaches with Hawaiian names, professional surfers from across the Americas are preparing to compete when the sport is featured for the first time in the Pan Am Games.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Surfing: A Peru way of life as sport debuts at Pan Am Games

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO - Associated Press

Workers construct a fan zone for the Pan Am games, on the coast in Lima, Peru, Thursday, July 25, 2019. The Pan Am games begin July 26 and run through Aug. 11. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

AP Explains: A look at the Pan American Games in Lima

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO - Associated Press

In this July 17, 2019 photo, amateur boxer Marco Morales shadow boxes in front of his home at the Villa Maria del Triunfo shantytown in Lima, Peru. Morales and other residents of Villa Maria del Triunfo who have witnessed from their cardboard shacks how the government built multi-million dollar arenas, seen in the background, while their decades-old demands for drainage, roads and drinking water in one of the world’s driest capitals, remain unanswered. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Pan American Games spotlight inequality in Peru’s capital

By FRANKLIN BRICENO - Associated Press

Man drowns trying to rescue dog in swollen river

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Police investigating shots that broke synagogue’s windows

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In this Friday, Sept. 28, 2018 photo, confetti rains on mayoral candidate Daniel Unrest as he arrives for a campaign event in Lima, Peru. A leading candidate to be Lima's next mayor, the retired army general promised an iron fist against criminals in Peru's massive capital city. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Ex-army general accused of murder leads mayoral race in Peru

By FRANKLIN BRICENO - Associated Press

Columbus cardiologist fled Uganda death squads as a teen

By SLIM SMITH - Associated Press

In this Jan. 25, 2018, file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks with reporters as he leaves the office of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who is moderating bipartisan negotiations on immigration, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Rubio fills void at Americas summit left by absent Trump

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

"The presence of President Trump would have been beneficial and important," said Peru's President Martin Vizcarra. "But [Vice President Mike Pence's attendance] means that the United States ratifies the importance to participate in the summit." (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS)

Mike Pence to sub for Donald Trump at Summit of the Americas

By Frederic Puglie Special to The Washington Times

President Trump is invited but is likely to get a cool reception at the Summit of the Americas in Peru. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro — who is notably not invited — says he will go anyway. He said he and Mr. Trump "will understand each other, communicate with each other and respect each other." (Associated Press/File)

Summit of the Americas clashes build drama for host Peru

By Frederico Puglie - Special to The Washington Times

In this Sept. 22, 2017 photo, the pre-Columbian archeological site La Luz is flanked by a private soccer field players rent in Lima, Peru. Many people in modern-day Peru are raised among the Incan ruins built before the Spanish colonized South America. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Peru’s abundant ruins feel the squeeze of urbanization

By FRANKLIN BRICENO and RODRIGO ABD - Associated Press

Details of South Dakota nuclear-missile accident released

By SETH TUPPER - Associated Press

Sheriff: Drugs found in house where SWAT team killed man

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FILE- In this Thursday, May 11, 2017 file photo, a Los Angeles 2024 sign stands in front of Staples Center, in Los Angeles. An International Olympic Committee panel has praised Los Angeles and Paris for “outstanding” plans to host the 2024 Summer Games. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Olympic panel praises ‘outstanding’ LA, Paris hosting plans

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

In this May 14, 2017 photo, a child rides his bicycle inside a venue that will host baseball, softball, archery and other sports during the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. The quadrennial event, which will attract athletes from Alaska to Argentina, has no sponsors, no marketing and is relying on Peru's national government. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peru organizes 2019 Pan Am Games in wake of deadly flooding

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

In this photo taken in Feb. 20, 2017, a customs agent observes the arrival of trucks with wood from the Peruvian Amazon at the port of Callao, Peru. Inspections to detect criminal timber harvesting operations were scaled back following the halting of 1,770 metric tons at the Port of Houston in October 2015 in a rare blow against illegal logging. Prosecutions of illicit logging in Peru have barely advanced since, while officials who signed falsified logging permits for years remain on the job. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

AP investigation shows Peru backsliding on illegal logging

By FRANK BAJAK - Associated Press

Argentina's Lucas Pratto sits on the pitch during a 2018 World Cup qualifying soccer soccer match against Bolivia in La Paz, Bolivia, on Tuesday, March 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Brazil 1st to qualify for World Cup, Argentina in danger

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press