Requena is a very small city in the Upper Amazon region of Peru (population 25, 000), near a tri-border area with Colombia and Brazil.
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Requena is just downriver from Leticia, Colombia and Tabatinga, Brazil, two port cities that are the gateways to enter the remote corners of both countries.
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When Epifanio Flores Quispe, the mayor of Requena, Peru received an invitation recently to visit Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, he wondered to himself what had made him so important.
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