A couple of months ago a television crew
came to Callanca to film and interview residents of Monsefú, that’s the
District that includes Callanca. The segment they were filming was for a
Sunday-morning program called “Domingo al Día” on América TV. It’s sort of a
Charles Kuralt type program but more hip and upbeat with fewer long drawnout
nature segments with cranes plucking shiny minnows out of silent, pristine
marshes. The segment was really a plug for another of América TV’s programs,
the famous “Al Fondo Hay Sitio”, a comedy telenovela that’s watched nightly by
almost all of Perú.
On “Al Fondo Hay Sitio” one of the
characters, Lucho, has been doing a lot of traveling from Lima to Monsefú and
there’s some suspicion, especially on the part of his wife, Reina, that he has
a girlfriend in Monsefú. The América TV crew came to Monsefú in order to film a
segment that showed viewers what Monsefú is really like. There were many
questions to interviewees about the romantic lives of Monsefuanos and many
remarks from interviewees about how all Monsefuanos have at least two women.
This is true, by the way. Many men not only have girlfriends but have families
with more than one woman. This practice is common among men 40 years of age and
older, much less commom among younger men, though many of them also have girlfriends
on the side, but they’ve figured out birth control and are (somewhat) less
likely to father children with their illicit girlfriends.
In the video below, Samuel, the
interviewer, interviews me, some employees in a restaurant in Callanca and
Eusebio, one of the owners of our duck-raising business “Patos Callancanos,
Tradición Peruana”. He also interviews the mayor, some artisans and a chichera
(brewer of a homemade corn-based alcoholic drink) in the city of Monsefú, the
Municipality of the District of Monefú. You likely won’t understand what anyone’s
saying but at least you’ll get a glimpse of Callanca and Monsefú, see what our
duck farm looks like, etc.
The segment turned out to be terrific
free publicity for the duck farm; a week after the interviews aired people were
showing up from all over to buy ducks and debate the finer points of marital
fidelity.
(By the way, I added two posts today so you may not have seen the previous.)
Here’s the link for the video:
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